1.  Overview the trade of BOLIVIA in goods current year until 202108

According to Dalian Infobank, in 202108, BOLIVIA's exports and imports of goods amounted to 1681.3449 million, and were up 70.72% comparing with the same period of last year. Among these, exports were up 88.12% at 947.6553 million, and imports were up 52.50% at 733.6896 million. And the corresponding trade surplus was 213.9657 million and up 844.54%.

During the current year until 202108, BOLIVIA's total exports and imports of goods were 12642.1308 million and were up 49.02% comparing to the same period of last year. Among these, exports were 6968.5088 million and up 65.39%; imports were 5673.6220 million and up 32.88%. The total trade surplus was 1294.8869 million and down 2399.98%.

If considering by country (region), BRAZIL, CHINA, ARGENTINA, INDIA, PERU were BOLIVIA's top five trading partners. During the current year until 202108, BOLIVIA's imports and exports to five countries/territories were 1920.7261 million, 1713.2868 million, 1367.2118 million, 1079.8768 million, 895.5529 million. These values correspond to 15.19%, 13.55%, 10.81%, 8.54%, 7.08% of BOLIVIA's imports and exports, and, respectively, were up 32.73%, up 44.03%, up 17.82%, up 131.42%, up 60.63% comparing to the same period of last year.

Current year until 202108, 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 202108, BOLIVIA's exports to these five countries/territories were 967.4296 million, 869.3454 million, 723.6022 million, 596.2205 million, 513.8814 million. These values correspond to 13.88%, 12.48%, 10.38%, 8.56%, 7.37% of BOLIVIA's exports and, respectively, were up 160.65%, up 22.40%, down 1.83%, up 96.59%, up 83.11% comparing with the same period of last year.

Current year until 202108, 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 202108, BOLIVIA's imports from these five countries/territories were 1250.3609 million, 1051.3807 million, 643.6097 million, 487.6524 million, 329.0355 million. These values correspond to 22.04%, 18.53%, 11.34%, 8.60%, 5.80% of BOLIVIA's total imports and, respectively, were up 22.37%, up 42.69%, up 52.05%, up 66.73%, up 2.12% comparing with the same period of last year.

During the current year until 202108, the trade surplus of BOLIVIA was mainly from INDIA, JAPAN, COLOMBIA, UNITED ARAB EMIRATES, SOUTH KOREA at 854.9823 million, 480.8397 million, 405.8421 million, 307.4679 million, 201.2139 million, and up 210.12%, up 163.01%, up 118.11%, up 60.09%, up 189.37%. And the trade deficits were mainly from CHINA, BRAZIL, CHILE, MEXICO, PERU at 787.4351 million, 182.0352 million, 179.8824 million, 123.0920 million, 79.7520 million, and down 7.79%, up 584.00%, up 131.99%, up 20.98%, up 190.64%.

Current year until 202108, BOLIVIA's trade surplus or deficit with top five countries/territories During the current year until 202108,  commodities with hs2 codes, 27, 71, 26, 84, 87, were BOLIVIA's top five traded commodities. They correspond to the import and export values of 2579.4916 million, 1753.0475 million, 1707.1750 million, 634.7986 million, 549.7746 million, which were up 44.53%, up 107.60%, up 115.67%, up 19.71%, up 29.43% comparing with the same period of last year and account for 20.40%, 13.87%, 13.50%, 5.02%, 4.35% of BOLIVIA's total imports and exports.

During the current year until 202108, 71, 26, 27, 23, 15 were BOLIVIA's top five traded commodities, with total import and export values of 1747.5437 million, 1707.1233 million, 1544.6028 million, 511.0583 million, 432.5909 million. These values correspond to 25.08%, 24.50%, 22.17%, 7.33%, 6.21% of BOLIVIA's total exports and, respectively, were up 107.78%, up 115.69%, up 8.96%, up 51.90%, up 108.03% comparing to the same period of last year.

During the current year until 202108, 27, 84, 87, 85, 72 were BOLIVIA's top five traded commodities, with total import values of 1034.8887 million, 633.0365 million, 549.7622 million, 381.9087 million, 367.3085 million. These values correspond to 18.24%, 11.16%, 9.69%, 6.73%, 6.47% of BOLIVIA's total exports and, respectively, were up 181.79%, up 19.69%, up 29.43%, up 6.58%, up 73.27% comparing to the same period of last year.

2. Current year until 202108, BOLIVIA binational trade profile

According to Dalian Infobank, during the current year until 202108, BOLIVIA-China binational exports and imports of goods amounted to 1713.2868 million and were up 44.03% comparing with the same period of last year. Among these, exports from BOLIVIA to China were 462.9259 million and up 175.93%, imports from China to BOLIVIA were 1250.3609 million and up 22.37%. The total binational trade deficit was 787.4351 million and down 7.79%.

During the urrent year until 202108, 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 356.9878 million, 214.7691 million, 169.4998 million, 164.6315 million, 101.4914 million and makes up 20.84%, 12.54%, 9.89%, 9.61%, 5.92% of the total binational imports and exports. These values were also up 208.53%, up 68.94%, down 1.34%, up 49.44%, up 72.70% comparing to the same period last year.

During the current year until 202108, 26, 02, 44, 25, 12 were the top five traded commodities exported to China from BOLIVIA, with export values of 356.9866 million, 64.7586 million, 18.5422 million, 5.9951 million, 4.6209 million. These values account for 77.12%, 13.99%, 4.01%, 1.30%, 1.00% of BOLIVIA's total exports and were up 208.53%, up 137.86%, up 120.85%, up 17.36%, up 9.36% comparing to the same period of last year.

During the current year until 202108, 84, 85, 87, 72, 39 were BOLIVIA's top five traded commodities importing from China , with import values of 214.7691 million, 169.4998 million, 164.6315 million, 101.3588 million, 68.0743 million. These values account for 17.18%, 13.56%, 13.17%, 8.11%, 5.44% of BOLIVIA's total imports and were up 68.94%, down 1.34%, up 49.44%, up 72.48%, up 34.33% comparing with the same period of last year.

3.Analysis of import and export trends

Data Source: Instituto Nacional de Estadistica