1.  Overview the trade of BOLIVIA in goods current year until 202105

According to Dalian Infobank, in 202105, BOLIVIA's exports and imports of goods amounted to 1491.4592 million, and were up 105.25% comparing with the same period of last year. Among these, exports were up 142.72% at 808.5510 million, and imports were up 73.53% at 682.9082 million. And the corresponding trade surplus was 125.6428 million and down 307.91%.

During the current year until 202105, BOLIVIA's total exports and imports of goods were 7309.2747 million and were up 38.13% comparing to the same period of last year. Among these, exports were 3952.9902 million and up 51.12%; imports were 3356.2844 million and up 25.43%. The total trade surplus was 596.7058 million and down 1092.53%.

If considering by country (region), BRAZIL, CHINA, ARGENTINA, INDIA, PERU were BOLIVIA's top five trading partners. During the current year until 202105, BOLIVIA's imports and exports to five countries/territories were 1133.8789 million, 1021.4215 million, 801.1335 million, 585.9403 million, 563.0659 million. These values correspond to 15.51%, 13.97%, 10.96%, 8.02%, 7.70% of BOLIVIA's imports and exports, and, respectively, were up 15.33%, up 47.60%, up 15.32%, up 99.12%, up 66.19% comparing to the same period of last year.

Current year until 202105, BOLIVIA and the top five trade partners INDIA, BRAZIL, ARGENTINA, JAPAN, COLOMBIA are the top five countries/territories that BOLIVIA exports to in terms of the total export amount. During the current year until 202105, BOLIVIA's exports to these five countries/territories were 518.1081 million, 490.2196 million, 441.9246 million, 328.6781 million, 299.9455 million. These values correspond to 13.11%, 12.40%, 11.18%, 8.31%, 7.59% of BOLIVIA's exports and, respectively, were up 127.21%, up 1.64%, down 2.92%, up 66.17%, up 90.15% comparing with the same period of last year.

Current year until 202105, 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 202105, BOLIVIA's imports from these five countries/territories were 736.2623 million, 643.6592 million, 359.2089 million, 320.6102 million, 209.5541 million. These values correspond to 21.94%, 19.18%, 10.70%, 9.55%, 6.24% of BOLIVIA's total imports and, respectively, were up 23.76%, up 28.51%, up 50.00%, up 78.39%, up 0.64% comparing with the same period of last year.

During the current year until 202105, the trade surplus of BOLIVIA was mainly from INDIA, JAPAN, COLOMBIA, SOUTH KOREA, AUSTRALIA at 450.2760 million, 262.7683 million, 233.4423 million, 151.5029 million, 127.4475 million, and up 178.30%, up 114.61%, up 144.87%, up 277.88%, up 136.77%. And the trade deficits were mainly from CHINA, BRAZIL, CHILE, PERU, MEXICO at 451.1031 million, 153.4396 million, 91.8427 million, 78.1544 million, 76.0140 million, and down 9.37%, up 727.65%, up 41.33%, up 278.59%, up 12.98%.

Current year until 202105, BOLIVIA's trade surplus or deficit with top five countries/territories During the current year until 202105,  commodities with hs2 codes, 27, 26, 71, 84, 23, were BOLIVIA's top five traded commodities. They correspond to the import and export values of 1460.1405 million, 1069.3742 million, 859.3098 million, 393.0221 million, 332.0513 million, which were up 28.81%, up 126.92%, up 64.01%, up 17.61%, up 53.21% comparing with the same period of last year and account for 19.98%, 14.63%, 11.76%, 5.38%, 4.54% of BOLIVIA's total imports and exports.

During the current year until 202105, 26, 27, 71, 23, 15 were BOLIVIA's top five traded commodities, with total import and export values of 1069.3325 million, 894.8294 million, 855.6227 million, 311.8557 million, 241.8261 million. These values correspond to 27.05%, 22.64%, 21.64%, 7.89%, 6.12% of BOLIVIA's total exports and, respectively, were up 126.96%, down 3.25%, up 64.11%, up 58.52%, up 95.57% comparing to the same period of last year.

During the current year until 202105, 27, 84, 87, 85, 39 were BOLIVIA's top five traded commodities, with total import values of 565.3111 million, 391.5029 million, 311.1461 million, 244.5576 million, 207.2484 million. These values correspond to 16.84%, 11.66%, 9.27%, 7.29%, 6.17% of BOLIVIA's total exports and, respectively, were up 170.80%, up 17.35%, up 15.39%, up 3.30%, up 31.13% comparing to the same period of last year.

2. Current year until 202105, BOLIVIA binational trade profile

According to Dalian Infobank, during the current year until 202105, BOLIVIA-China binational exports and imports of goods amounted to 1021.4215 million and were up 47.60% comparing with the same period of last year. Among these, exports from BOLIVIA to China were 285.1592 million and up 193.53%, imports from China to BOLIVIA were 736.2623 million and up 23.76%. The total binational trade deficit was 451.1031 million and down 9.37%.

During the urrent year until 202105, 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 223.5223 million, 141.8585 million, 108.0895 million, 89.8120 million, 53.2159 million and makes up 21.88%, 13.89%, 10.58%, 8.79%, 5.21% of the total binational imports and exports. These values were also up 218.27%, up 83.16%, up 6.93%, up 33.01%, up 37.64% comparing to the same period last year.

During the current year until 202105, 26, 02, 44, 28, 25 were the top five traded commodities exported to China from BOLIVIA, with export values of 223.5214 million, 39.3217 million, 8.9767 million, 3.7112 million, 3.6786 million. These values account for 78.38%, 13.79%, 3.15%, 1.30%, 1.29% of BOLIVIA's total exports and were up 218.28%, up 151.11%, up 132.50%, 0, up 85.12% comparing to the same period of last year.

During the current year until 202105, 84, 85, 87, 72, 40 were BOLIVIA's top five traded commodities importing from China , with import values of 141.8585 million, 108.0895 million, 89.8120 million, 53.1430 million, 37.7337 million. These values account for 19.27%, 14.68%, 12.20%, 7.22%, 5.13% of BOLIVIA's total imports and were up 83.16%, up 6.93%, up 33.01%, up 37.45%, up 44.99% comparing with the same period of last year.

3.Analysis of import and export trends

Data Source: Instituto Nacional de Estadistica