1.  Overview the trade of BOLIVIA in goods current year until 202104

According to Dalian Infobank, in 202104, BOLIVIA's exports and imports of goods amounted to 1420.4388 million, and were up 165.78% comparing with the same period of last year. Among these, exports were up 217.76% at 760.0545 million, and imports were up 123.67% at 660.3843 million. And the corresponding trade surplus was 99.6701 million and down 277.82%.

During the current year until 202104, BOLIVIA's total exports and imports of goods were 5705.4043 million and were up 24.98% comparing to the same period of last year. Among these, exports were 3062.4042 million and up 34.16%; imports were 2643.0001 million and up 15.80%. The total trade surplus was 419.4041 million and up 134898.57%.

If considering by country (region), BRAZIL, CHINA, ARGENTINA, INDIA, PERU were BOLIVIA's top five trading partners. During the current year until 202104, BOLIVIA's imports and exports to five countries/territories were 875.4276 million, 813.1171 million, 628.4511 million, 488.9880 million, 448.2921 million. These values correspond to 15.34%, 14.25%, 11.02%, 8.57%, 7.86% of BOLIVIA's imports and exports, and, respectively, were up 1.73%, up 40.47%, up 12.43%, up 73.50%, up 55.24% comparing to the same period of last year.

Current year until 202104, BOLIVIA and the top five trade partners INDIA, BRAZIL, ARGENTINA, JAPAN, CHINA are the top five countries/territories that BOLIVIA exports to in terms of the total export amount. During the current year until 202104, BOLIVIA's exports to these five countries/territories were 437.0372 million, 375.9063 million, 344.4711 million, 279.6097 million, 219.0230 million. These values correspond to 14.27%, 12.27%, 11.25%, 9.13%, 7.15% of BOLIVIA's exports and, respectively, were up 91.66%, down 11.41%, down 4.82%, up 51.85%, up 151.52% comparing with the same period of last year.

Current year until 202104, BOLIVIA's exports to top five countries/territories CHINA, BRAZIL, ARGENTINA, PERU, UNITED STATES are the top five countries/territories that BOLIVIA imports from in terms of the total export amount. During the current year until 202104, BOLIVIA's imports from these five countries/territories were 594.0940 million, 499.5214 million, 283.9800 million, 251.0264 million, 165.1438 million. These values correspond to 22.48%, 18.90%, 10.74%, 9.50%, 6.25% of BOLIVIA's total imports and, respectively, were up 20.80%, up 14.52%, up 44.10%, up 56.39%, down 8.85% comparing with the same period of last year.

During the current year until 202104, the trade surplus of BOLIVIA was mainly from INDIA, JAPAN, COLOMBIA, SOUTH KOREA, AUSTRALIA at 385.0864 million, 228.5467 million, 146.3003 million, 115.2895 million, 68.6341 million, and up 121.04%, up 93.18%, up 121.91%, up 173.48%, up 29.46%. And the trade deficits were mainly from CHINA, BRAZIL, CHILE, MEXICO, PERU at 375.0710 million, 123.6151 million, 89.9015 million, 59.4583 million, 53.7607 million, and down 7.32%, up 940.98%, up 40.59%, up 0.67%, up 66.65%.

Current year until 202104, BOLIVIA's trade surplus or deficit with top five countries/territories During the current year until 202104,  commodities with hs2 codes, 27, 26, 71, 84, 87, were BOLIVIA's top five traded commodities. They correspond to the import and export values of 1129.8099 million, 835.4361 million, 692.9056 million, 318.8104 million, 239.6794 million, which were up 15.11%, up 90.36%, up 36.96%, up 11.43%, down 2.38% comparing with the same period of last year and account for 19.80%, 14.64%, 12.14%, 5.59%, 4.20% of BOLIVIA's total imports and exports.

During the current year until 202104, 26, 27, 71, 23, 15 were BOLIVIA's top five traded commodities, with total import and export values of 835.4274 million, 696.5944 million, 689.9023 million, 220.1265 million, 185.7805 million. These values correspond to 27.28%, 22.75%, 22.53%, 7.19%, 6.07% of BOLIVIA's total exports and, respectively, were up 90.39%, down 10.32%, up 36.99%, up 49.80%, up 79.33% comparing to the same period of last year.

During the current year until 202104, 27, 84, 87, 85, 39 were BOLIVIA's top five traded commodities, with total import values of 433.2155 million, 317.8574 million, 239.6713 million, 195.3730 million, 163.5520 million. These values correspond to 16.39%, 12.03%, 9.07%, 7.39%, 6.19% of BOLIVIA's total exports and, respectively, were up 111.59%, up 11.31%, down 2.38%, down 5.00%, up 25.28% comparing to the same period of last year.

2. Current year until 202104, BOLIVIA binational trade profile

According to Dalian Infobank, during the current year until 202104, BOLIVIA-China binational exports and imports of goods amounted to 813.1171 million and were up 40.47% comparing with the same period of last year. Among these, exports from BOLIVIA to China were 219.0230 million and up 151.52%, imports from China to BOLIVIA were 594.0940 million and up 20.80%. The total binational trade deficit was 375.0710 million and down 7.32%.

During the urrent year until 202104, commodities with hs2 code, 26, 84, 85, 87, 72, were binational trade's top five traded commodities. They correspond to import and export values of 172.2526 million, 119.9520 million, 91.6009 million, 71.5579 million, 37.5918 million and makes up 21.18%, 14.75%, 11.27%, 8.80%, 4.62% of the total binational imports and exports. These values were also up 157.95%, up 82.93%, up 1.84%, up 19.44%, up 13.56% comparing to the same period last year.

During the current year until 202104, 26, 02, 44, 25, 10 were the top five traded commodities exported to China from BOLIVIA, with export values of 172.2518 million, 32.4321 million, 7.7537 million, 2.4826 million, 1.1096 million. These values account for 78.65%, 14.81%, 3.54%, 1.13%, 0.51% of BOLIVIA's total exports and were up 157.95%, up 181.63%, up 149.65%, up 31.00%, up 174.57% comparing to the same period of last year.

During the current year until 202104, 84, 85, 87, 72, 39 were BOLIVIA's top five traded commodities importing from China , with import values of 119.9520 million, 91.6009 million, 71.5579 million, 37.5316 million, 29.7058 million. These values account for 20.19%, 15.42%, 12.04%, 6.32%, 5.00% of BOLIVIA's total imports and were up 82.93%, up 1.84%, up 19.44%, up 13.38%, up 23.35% comparing with the same period of last year.

3.Analysis of import and export trends

Data Source: Instituto Nacional de Estadistica