1.  Overview the trade of FRANCE in goods current year until 202008

According to Dalian Infobank, in 202008, FRANCE's exports and imports of goods amounted to 76415.4112 million, and were down 8.92% comparing with the same period of last year. Among these, exports were down 14.09% at 33074.0196 million, and imports were down 4.54% at 43341.3915 million. And the corresponding trade deficit was 10267.3719 million and up 48.73%.

During the current year until 202008, FRANCE's total exports and imports of goods were 665745.6921 million and were down 18.83% comparing to the same period of last year. Among these, exports were 300061.1277 million and down 21.40%; imports were 365684.5644 million and down 16.59%. The total trade deficit was 65623.4366 million and up 15.83%.

If considering by country (region), GERMANY, BELGIUM, ITALY, SPAIN, UNITED STATES were FRANCE's top five trading partners. During the current year until 202008, FRANCE's imports and exports to five countries/territories were 105267.0943 million, 57870.3988 million, 52243.4730 million, 49645.6670 million, 42970.7090 million. These values correspond to 15.81%, 8.69%, 7.85%, 7.46%, 6.45% of FRANCE's imports and exports, and, respectively, were down 19.02%, down 16.61%, down 18.15%, down 16.15%, down 23.58% comparing to the same period of last year.

Current year until 202008, FRANCE and the top five trade partners GERMANY, UNITED STATES, ITALY, BELGIUM, SPAIN are the top five countries/territories that FRANCE exports to in terms of the total export amount. During the current year until 202008, FRANCE's exports to these five countries/territories were 42940.4271 million, 24051.4648 million, 22800.5291 million, 22102.7513 million, 21905.8206 million. These values correspond to 14.31%, 8.02%, 7.60%, 7.37%, 7.30% of FRANCE's exports and, respectively, were down 19.06%, down 25.60%, down 20.30%, down 15.27%, down 23.00% comparing with the same period of last year.

Current year until 202008, FRANCE's exports to top five countries/territories GERMANY, BELGIUM, NETHERLANDS, ITALY, SPAIN are the top five countries/territories that FRANCE imports from in terms of the total export amount. During the current year until 202008, FRANCE's imports from these five countries/territories were 62326.6672 million, 35767.6475 million, 30993.5897 million, 29442.9440 million, 27739.8464 million. These values correspond to 17.04%, 9.78%, 8.48%, 8.05%, 7.59% of FRANCE's total imports and, respectively, were down 18.99%, down 17.41%, down 8.40%, down 16.41%, down 9.82% comparing with the same period of last year.

During the current year until 202008, the trade surplus of FRANCE was mainly from UNITED STATES, UNITED KINGDOM, SINGAPORE, COUNTRIES AND TERRITORIES NOT SPECIFIED FOR COMMERCIAL OR MILITARY REASONS IN THE FRAMEWORK OF TRADE WITH THIRD COUNTRIES, HONG KONG at 5132.2207 million, 4734.0742 million, 3336.8947 million, 2763.8217 million, 2625.1563 million, and down 39.10%, down 47.46%, down 18.42%, down 7.87%, down 36.02%. And the trade deficits were mainly from GERMANY, NETHERLANDS, CHINA, BELGIUM, ITALY at 19386.2401 million, 19320.3527 million, 15413.0296 million, 13664.8962 million, 6642.4149 million, and down 18.84%, down 5.13%, up 70.66%, down 20.65%, up 0.38%.

Current year until 202008, FRANCE's trade surplus or deficit with top five countries/territories During the current year until 202008,  commodities with hs2 codes, 84, 87, 85, 30, 27, were FRANCE's top five traded commodities. They correspond to the import and export values of 79044.8806 million, 61636.8980 million, 56452.6018 million, 43201.3420 million, 33994.0102 million, which were down 22.65%, down 26.42%, down 15.30%, up 8.64%, down 42.17% comparing with the same period of last year and account for 11.87%, 9.26%, 8.48%, 6.49%, 5.11% of FRANCE's total imports and exports.

During the current year until 202008, 84, 87, 30, 85, 88 were FRANCE's top five traded commodities, with total import and export values of 33579.3659 million, 24470.8271 million, 24141.1871 million, 24093.3438 million, 15835.6685 million. These values correspond to 11.19%, 8.16%, 8.05%, 8.03%, 5.28% of FRANCE's total exports and, respectively, were down 25.58%, down 31.32%, up 3.85%, down 16.54%, down 53.83% comparing to the same period of last year.

During the current year until 202008, 84, 87, 85, 27, 30 were FRANCE's top five traded commodities, with total import values of 45465.5146 million, 37166.0710 million, 32359.2580 million, 27435.2462 million, 19060.1549 million. These values correspond to 12.43%, 10.16%, 8.85%, 7.50%, 5.21% of FRANCE's total exports and, respectively, were down 20.33%, down 22.80%, down 14.35%, down 40.65%, up 15.38% comparing to the same period of last year.

2. Current year until 202008, FRANCE binational trade profile

According to Dalian Infobank, during the current year until 202008, FRANCE-China binational exports and imports of goods amounted to 37923.6041 million and were down 3.27% comparing with the same period of last year. Among these, exports from FRANCE to China were 11255.2873 million and down 25.40%, imports from China to FRANCE were 26668.3169 million and up 10.57%. The total binational trade deficit was 15413.0296 million and up 70.66%.

During the urrent year until 202008, commodities with hs2 code, 84, 85, 63, 94, 62, were binational trade's top five traded commodities. They correspond to import and export values of 5714.0158 million, 5656.0433 million, 4777.7061 million, 1539.2572 million, 1389.2212 million and makes up 15.07%, 14.91%, 12.60%, 4.06%, 3.66% of the total binational imports and exports. These values were also down 11.89%, down 3.61%, up 1074.48%, down 8.33%, down 9.47% comparing to the same period last year.

During the current year until 202008, 84, 30, 33, 85, 10 were the top five traded commodities exported to China from FRANCE, with export values of 1874.2306 million, 1095.7149 million, 1012.6913 million, 774.1538 million, 583.3037 million. These values account for 16.65%, 9.74%, 9.00%, 6.88%, 5.18% of FRANCE's total exports and were down 19.45%, up 16.96%, up 14.13%, down 7.16%, up 236.90% comparing to the same period of last year.

During the current year until 202008, 85, 63, 84, 94, 62 were FRANCE's top five traded commodities importing from China , with import values of 4881.8894 million, 4762.2882 million, 3839.7852 million, 1475.6984 million, 1255.6268 million. These values account for 18.31%, 17.86%, 14.40%, 5.53%, 4.71% of FRANCE's total imports and were down 3.03%, up 1088.94%, down 7.67%, down 9.18%, down 8.93% comparing with the same period of last year.

3.Analysis of import and export trends

Data Source: Eurostat