1.  Overview the trade of BOLIVIA in goods current year until 202208

According to Dalian Infobank, in 202208, BOLIVIA's exports and imports of goods amounted to 2487.4497 million, and were up 42.54% comparing with the same period of last year. Among these, exports were up 17.35% at 1154.9605 million, and imports were up 75.14% at 1332.4893 million. And the corresponding trade deficit was 177.5288 million and down 179.46%.

During the current year until 202208, BOLIVIA's total exports and imports of goods were 17864.0855 million and were up 39.61% comparing to the same period of last year. Among these, exports were 9510.5105 million and up 34.36%; imports were 8353.5750 million and up 46.11%. The total trade surplus was 1156.9355 million and down 14.99%.

If considering by country (region), BRAZIL, ARGENTINA, CHINA, INDIA, PERU were BOLIVIA's top five trading partners. During the current year until 202208, BOLIVIA's imports and exports to five countries/territories were 2618.0781 million, 2301.0570 million, 2099.3520 million, 1700.6814 million, 1360.0103 million. These values correspond to 14.66%, 12.88%, 11.75%, 9.52%, 7.61% of BOLIVIA's imports and exports, and, respectively, were up 35.29%, up 67.17%, up 21.79%, up 56.55%, up 48.90% comparing to the same period of last year.

Current year until 202208, BOLIVIA and the top five trade partners INDIA, BRAZIL, ARGENTINA, COLOMBIA, JAPAN are the top five countries/territories that BOLIVIA exports to in terms of the total export amount. During the current year until 202208, BOLIVIA's exports to these five countries/territories were 1549.5815 million, 1292.3123 million, 1289.8082 million, 849.0071 million, 715.2932 million. These values correspond to 16.29%, 13.59%, 13.56%, 8.93%, 7.52% of BOLIVIA's exports and, respectively, were up 59.26%, up 47.75%, up 76.96%, up 75.18%, up 19.90% comparing with the same period of last year.

Current year until 202208, BOLIVIA's exports to top five countries/territories CHINA, BRAZIL, ARGENTINA, CHILE, PERU are the top five countries/territories that BOLIVIA imports from in terms of the total export amount. During the current year until 202208, BOLIVIA's imports from these five countries/territories were 1580.9104 million, 1325.7658 million, 1011.2488 million, 802.8047 million, 790.7160 million. These values correspond to 18.92%, 15.87%, 12.11%, 9.61%, 9.47% of BOLIVIA's total imports and, respectively, were up 25.86%, up 25.02%, up 56.15%, up 176.19%, up 61.61% comparing with the same period of last year.

During the current year until 202208, the trade surplus of BOLIVIA was mainly from INDIA, COLOMBIA, JAPAN, SOUTH KOREA, ARGENTINA at 1398.4816 million, 734.0755 million, 568.0606 million, 333.8727 million, 278.5594 million, and up 62.68%, up 95.19%, up 18.21%, up 65.47%, up 242.97%. And the trade deficits were mainly from CHINA, CHILE, UNITED STATES, PERU, SINGAPORE at 1062.4689 million, 662.3394 million, 402.2607 million, 221.4217 million, 203.9256 million, and up 34.78%, up 294.27%, up 31243.80%, up 239.50%, up 473.91%.

Current year until 202208, BOLIVIA's trade surplus or deficit with top five countries/territories During the current year until 202208,  commodities with hs2 codes, 27, 71, 26, 84, 23, were BOLIVIA's top five traded commodities. They correspond to the import and export values of 4922.9779 million, 2064.7993 million, 2008.5156 million, 914.6699 million, 769.8884 million, which were up 89.28%, up 17.42%, up 17.24%, up 36.28%, up 38.50% comparing with the same period of last year and account for 27.56%, 11.56%, 11.24%, 5.12%, 4.31% of BOLIVIA's total imports and exports.

During the current year until 202208, 27, 71, 26, 23, 15 were BOLIVIA's top five traded commodities, with total import and export values of 2120.8080 million, 2059.1449 million, 2008.4679 million, 728.3441 million, 708.6185 million. These values correspond to 22.30%, 21.65%, 21.12%, 7.66%, 7.45% of BOLIVIA's total exports and, respectively, were up 37.16%, up 17.47%, up 17.24%, up 40.38%, up 56.15% comparing to the same period of last year.

During the current year until 202208, 27, 84, 87, 72, 39 were BOLIVIA's top five traded commodities, with total import values of 2802.1699 million, 873.6175 million, 678.4409 million, 441.8519 million, 435.5570 million. These values correspond to 33.54%, 10.46%, 8.12%, 5.29%, 5.21% of BOLIVIA's total exports and, respectively, were up 165.71%, up 37.44%, up 22.02%, up 19.94%, up 23.96% comparing to the same period of last year.

2. Current year until 202208, BOLIVIA binational trade profile

According to Dalian Infobank, during the current year until 202208, BOLIVIA-China binational exports and imports of goods amounted to 2099.3520 million and were up 21.79% comparing with the same period of last year. Among these, exports from BOLIVIA to China were 518.4416 million and up 10.84%, imports from China to BOLIVIA were 1580.9104 million and up 25.86%. The total binational trade deficit was 1062.4689 million and up 34.78%.

During the urrent year until 202208, 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 389.4074 million, 257.0135 million, 195.6407 million, 184.4438 million, 149.3352 million and makes up 18.55%, 12.24%, 9.32%, 8.79%, 7.11% of the total binational imports and exports. These values were also up 8.39%, up 18.18%, up 18.39%, up 8.40%, up 47.12% comparing to the same period last year.

During the current year until 202208, 26, 02, 44, 74, 12 were the top five traded commodities exported to China from BOLIVIA, with export values of 389.4066 million, 81.5379 million, 13.7603 million, 8.5475 million, 6.3622 million. These values account for 75.11%, 15.73%, 2.65%, 1.65%, 1.23% of BOLIVIA's total exports and were up 8.39%, up 25.60%, down 25.79%, up 214.38%, up 37.68% comparing to the same period of last year.

During the current year until 202208, 84, 87, 85, 72, 39 were BOLIVIA's top five traded commodities importing from China , with import values of 257.0099 million, 195.6407 million, 184.4424 million, 149.2289 million, 101.7621 million. These values account for 16.26%, 12.38%, 11.67%, 9.44%, 6.44% of BOLIVIA's total imports and were up 19.17%, up 18.39%, up 8.43%, up 47.21%, up 48.71% comparing with the same period of last year.

3.Analysis of import and export trends

Data Source: Instituto Nacional de Estadistica