1.  Overview the trade of BOLIVIA in goods current year until 202109

According to Dalian Infobank, in 202109, BOLIVIA's exports and imports of goods amounted to 1703.3838 million, and were up 43.71% comparing with the same period of last year. Among these, exports were up 71.57% at 915.4785 million, and imports were up 20.90% at 787.9053 million. And the corresponding trade surplus was 127.5731 million and down 208.02%.

During the current year until 202109, BOLIVIA's total exports and imports of goods were 14399.1134 million and were up 48.93% comparing to the same period of last year. Among these, exports were 7913.0336 million and up 66.69%; imports were 6486.0798 million and up 31.79%. The total trade surplus was 1426.9538 million and down 917.93%.

If considering by country (region), BRAZIL, CHINA, ARGENTINA, INDIA, PERU were BOLIVIA's top five trading partners. During the current year until 202109, BOLIVIA's imports and exports to five countries/territories were 2173.9607 million, 1918.7055 million, 1556.6395 million, 1297.5229 million, 1002.8957 million. These values correspond to 15.10%, 13.33%, 10.81%, 9.01%, 6.96% of BOLIVIA's imports and exports, and, respectively, were up 33.49%, up 37.73%, up 18.75%, up 161.12%, up 52.81% comparing to the same period of last year.

Current year until 202109, 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 202109, BOLIVIA's exports to these five countries/territories were 1167.1592 million, 995.9751 million, 797.3739 million, 665.1632 million, 565.3222 million. These values correspond to 14.75%, 12.59%, 10.08%, 8.41%, 7.14% of BOLIVIA's exports and, respectively, were up 199.28%, up 26.20%, down 2.22%, up 78.57%, up 109.14% comparing with the same period of last year.

Current year until 202109, 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 202109, BOLIVIA's imports from these five countries/territories were 1406.7293 million, 1177.9856 million, 759.2656 million, 547.8845 million, 377.5663 million. These values correspond to 21.69%, 18.16%, 11.71%, 8.45%, 5.82% of BOLIVIA's total imports and, respectively, were up 19.58%, up 40.34%, up 53.26%, up 57.19%, up 3.95% comparing with the same period of last year.

During the current year until 202109, the trade surplus of BOLIVIA was mainly from INDIA, JAPAN, COLOMBIA, UNITED ARAB EMIRATES, SOUTH KOREA at 1036.7955 million, 533.1475 million, 442.3653 million, 348.2458 million, 235.6237 million, and up 266.28%, up 124.55%, up 172.21%, up 59.34%, up 210.47%. And the trade deficits were mainly from CHINA, CHILE, BRAZIL, MEXICO, PERU at 894.7531 million, 254.1513 million, 182.0106 million, 136.3510 million, 92.8733 million, and down 6.76%, up 150.79%, up 262.46%, up 17.53%, up 127.62%.

Current year until 202109, BOLIVIA's trade surplus or deficit with top five countries/territories During the current year until 202109,  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 2977.2451 million, 2040.1440 million, 1916.9608 million, 714.8055 million, 638.2170 million, which were up 46.82%, up 118.30%, up 107.05%, up 18.77%, up 31.87% comparing with the same period of last year and account for 20.68%, 14.17%, 13.31%, 4.96%, 4.43% of BOLIVIA's total imports and exports.

During the current year until 202109, 71, 26, 27, 23, 15 were BOLIVIA's top five traded commodities, with total import and export values of 2034.0781 million, 1916.9072 million, 1734.8229 million, 563.2828 million, 503.4424 million. These values correspond to 25.71%, 24.22%, 21.92%, 7.12%, 6.36% of BOLIVIA's total exports and, respectively, were up 118.56%, up 107.07%, up 10.97%, up 53.25%, up 108.50% comparing to the same period of last year.

During the current year until 202109, 27, 84, 87, 85, 72 were BOLIVIA's top five traded commodities, with total import values of 1242.4222 million, 712.7322 million, 638.1981 million, 421.0437 million, 409.7968 million. These values correspond to 19.16%, 10.99%, 9.84%, 6.49%, 6.32% of BOLIVIA's total exports and, respectively, were up 167.53%, up 18.73%, up 31.87%, up 5.37%, up 69.56% comparing to the same period of last year.

2. Current year until 202109, BOLIVIA binational trade profile

According to Dalian Infobank, during the current year until 202109, BOLIVIA-China binational exports and imports of goods amounted to 1918.7055 million and were up 37.73% comparing with the same period of last year. Among these, exports from BOLIVIA to China were 511.9762 million and up 136.21%, imports from China to BOLIVIA were 1406.7293 million and up 19.58%. The total binational trade deficit was 894.7531 million and down 6.76%.

During the urrent year until 202109, commodities with hs2 code, 26, 84, 87, 85, 72, were binational trade's top five traded commodities. They correspond to import and export values of 392.2845 million, 235.8112 million, 192.1931 million, 185.7187 million, 115.3430 million and makes up 20.45%, 12.29%, 10.02%, 9.68%, 6.01% of the total binational imports and exports. These values were also up 157.74%, up 58.60%, up 53.98%, down 2.73%, up 75.49% comparing to the same period last year.

During the current year until 202109, 26, 02, 44, 25, 12 were the top five traded commodities exported to China from BOLIVIA, with export values of 392.2833 million, 72.4853 million, 22.0781 million, 6.4916 million, 5.3819 million. These values account for 76.62%, 14.16%, 4.31%, 1.27%, 1.05% of BOLIVIA's total exports and were up 157.74%, up 116.01%, up 89.76%, up 2.16%, up 16.34% comparing to the same period of last year.

During the current year until 202109, 84, 87, 85, 72, 39 were BOLIVIA's top five traded commodities importing from China , with import values of 235.8112 million, 192.1931 million, 185.7187 million, 115.1748 million, 74.8703 million. These values account for 16.76%, 13.66%, 13.20%, 8.19%, 5.32% of BOLIVIA's total imports and were up 58.60%, up 53.98%, down 2.73%, up 75.24%, up 28.58% comparing with the same period of last year.

3.Analysis of import and export trends

Data Source: Instituto Nacional de Estadistica