1.  Overview the trade of BOLIVIA in goods current year until 202212

According to Dalian Infobank, in 202212, BOLIVIA's exports and imports of goods amounted to 2196.6884 million, and were up 1.67% comparing with the same period of last year. Among these, exports were up 0.39% at 974.9829 million, and imports were up 2.72% at 1221.7055 million. And the corresponding trade deficit was 246.7226 million and up 13.09%.

During the current year until 202212, BOLIVIA's total exports and imports of goods were 26702.2194 million and were up 29.01% comparing to the same period of last year. Among these, exports were 13652.8137 million and up 23.22%; imports were 13049.4057 million and up 35.68%. The total trade surplus was 603.4079 million and down 58.72%.

If considering by country (region), BRAZIL, ARGENTINA, CHINA, INDIA, PERU were BOLIVIA's top five trading partners. During the current year until 202212, BOLIVIA's imports and exports to five countries/territories were 3860.4909 million, 3376.2704 million, 3317.2451 million, 2494.5443 million, 1909.4165 million. These values correspond to 14.46%, 12.64%, 12.42%, 9.34%, 7.15% of BOLIVIA's imports and exports, and, respectively, were up 22.31%, up 45.69%, up 25.90%, up 20.11%, up 31.78% comparing to the same period of last year.

Current year until 202212, 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 202212, BOLIVIA's exports to these five countries/territories were 2258.7560 million, 1893.7156 million, 1747.4218 million, 1058.5668 million, 967.0028 million. These values correspond to 16.54%, 13.87%, 12.80%, 7.75%, 7.08% of BOLIVIA's exports and, respectively, were up 22.10%, up 30.69%, up 67.48%, up 48.33%, up 5.47% comparing with the same period of last year.

Current year until 202212, BOLIVIA's exports to top five countries/territories CHINA, BRAZIL, ARGENTINA, CHILE, UNITED STATES are the top five countries/territories that BOLIVIA imports from in terms of the total export amount. During the current year until 202212, BOLIVIA's imports from these five countries/territories were 2532.1633 million, 1966.7753 million, 1628.8486 million, 1423.7697 million, 1101.6493 million. These values correspond to 19.40%, 15.07%, 12.48%, 10.91%, 8.44% of BOLIVIA's total imports and, respectively, were up 28.16%, up 15.21%, up 27.84%, up 125.88%, up 90.04% comparing with the same period of last year.

During the current year until 202212, the trade surplus of BOLIVIA was mainly from INDIA, COLOMBIA, JAPAN, UNITED ARAB EMIRATES, SOUTH KOREA at 2022.9677 million, 875.0336 million, 735.7922 million, 493.3474 million, 458.9930 million, and up 24.64%, up 61.40%, up 0.72%, up 25.69%, up 24.30%. And the trade deficits were mainly from CHINA, CHILE, UNITED STATES, SINGAPORE, SWITZERLAND at 1747.0814 million, 1186.3912 million, 729.1730 million, 252.4166 million, 252.2644 million, and up 32.68%, up 169.61%, up 1602.17%, up 197.40%, up 195.67%.

Current year until 202212, BOLIVIA's trade surplus or deficit with top five countries/territories During the current year until 202212,  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 7497.9273 million, 3220.4417 million, 2854.8726 million, 1407.1795 million, 1081.9418 million, which were up 61.94%, up 10.28%, up 10.95%, up 32.86%, up 18.54% comparing with the same period of last year and account for 28.08%, 12.06%, 10.69%, 5.27%, 4.05% of BOLIVIA's total imports and exports.

During the current year until 202212, 71, 27, 26, 23, 15 were BOLIVIA's top five traded commodities, with total import and export values of 3211.4848 million, 3088.1612 million, 2854.7980 million, 1006.9823 million, 1002.4846 million. These values correspond to 23.52%, 22.62%, 20.91%, 7.38%, 7.34% of BOLIVIA's total exports and, respectively, were up 10.31%, up 30.87%, up 10.95%, up 36.56%, up 44.97% comparing to the same period of last year.

During the current year until 202212, 27, 84, 87, 85, 39 were BOLIVIA's top five traded commodities, with total import values of 4409.7662 million, 1359.2204 million, 1080.8079 million, 655.0015 million, 633.8139 million. These values correspond to 33.79%, 10.42%, 8.28%, 5.02%, 4.86% of BOLIVIA's total exports and, respectively, were up 94.21%, up 34.32%, up 19.40%, up 13.36%, up 18.60% comparing to the same period of last year.

2. Current year until 202212, BOLIVIA binational trade profile

According to Dalian Infobank, during the current year until 202212, BOLIVIA-China binational exports and imports of goods amounted to 3317.2451 million and were up 25.90% comparing with the same period of last year. Among these, exports from BOLIVIA to China were 785.0818 million and up 19.13%, imports from China to BOLIVIA were 2532.1633 million and up 28.16%. The total binational trade deficit was 1747.0814 million and up 32.68%.

During the urrent year until 202212, 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 617.1488 million, 410.9688 million, 306.1597 million, 296.7169 million, 213.3626 million and makes up 18.60%, 12.39%, 9.23%, 8.94%, 6.43% of the total binational imports and exports. These values were also up 23.38%, up 24.90%, up 18.84%, up 12.16%, up 39.16% comparing to the same period last year.

During the current year until 202212, 26, 02, 44, 74, 25 were the top five traded commodities exported to China from BOLIVIA, with export values of 617.1476 million, 103.9920 million, 19.2349 million, 11.5303 million, 8.2593 million. These values account for 78.61%, 13.25%, 2.45%, 1.47%, 1.05% of BOLIVIA's total exports and were up 23.38%, up 22.83%, down 38.52%, up 34.08%, down 2.28% comparing to the same period of last year.

During the current year until 202212, 84, 87, 85, 72, 38 were BOLIVIA's top five traded commodities importing from China , with import values of 410.9572 million, 306.1597 million, 296.6214 million, 213.2227 million, 199.9440 million. These values account for 16.23%, 12.09%, 11.71%, 8.42%, 7.90% of BOLIVIA's total imports and were up 25.61%, up 18.84%, up 12.15%, up 39.28%, up 54.49% comparing with the same period of last year.

3.Analysis of import and export trends

Data Source: Instituto Nacional de Estadistica