1.  Overview the trade of FRANCE in goods current year until 202011

According to Dalian Infobank, in 202011, FRANCE's exports and imports of goods amounted to 100956.6056 million, and were up 0.12% comparing with the same period of last year. Among these, exports were up 0.25% at 46921.1143 million, and imports were down 0.00% at 54035.4912 million. And the corresponding trade deficit was 7114.3769 million and down 1.63%.

During the current year until 202011, FRANCE's total exports and imports of goods were 970830.4448 million and were down 14.13% comparing to the same period of last year. Among these, exports were 441214.0254 million and down 16.06%; imports were 529616.4194 million and down 12.46%. The total trade deficit was 88402.3941 million and up 11.41%.

If considering by country (region), GERMANY, BELGIUM, ITALY, SPAIN, NETHERLANDS were FRANCE's top five trading partners. During the current year until 202011, FRANCE's imports and exports to five countries/territories were 156081.9046 million, 83629.2840 million, 77833.9362 million, 73893.0068 million, 62077.5988 million. These values correspond to 16.08%, 8.61%, 8.02%, 7.61%, 6.39% of FRANCE's imports and exports, and, respectively, were down 13.01%, down 11.96%, down 11.63%, down 10.09%, down 6.26% comparing to the same period of last year.

Current year until 202011, 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 202011, FRANCE's exports to these five countries/territories were 63993.5444 million, 33947.1384 million, 33772.5557 million, 32561.0976 million, 32469.1724 million. These values correspond to 14.50%, 7.69%, 7.65%, 7.38%, 7.36% of FRANCE's exports and, respectively, were down 11.86%, down 22.06%, down 14.20%, down 9.38%, down 17.20% comparing with the same period of last year.

Current year until 202011, 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 202011, FRANCE's imports from these five countries/territories were 92088.3602 million, 51068.1864 million, 45339.0458 million, 44061.3805 million, 41423.8344 million. These values correspond to 17.39%, 9.64%, 8.56%, 8.32%, 7.82% of FRANCE's total imports and, respectively, were down 13.80%, down 13.52%, down 5.32%, down 9.56%, down 3.60% comparing with the same period of last year.

During the current year until 202011, the trade surplus of FRANCE was mainly from UNITED STATES, UNITED KINGDOM, SINGAPORE, HONG KONG, COUNTRIES AND TERRITORIES NOT SPECIFIED FOR COMMERCIAL OR MILITARY REASONS IN THE FRAMEWORK OF TRADE WITH THIRD COUNTRIES at 8270.8603 million, 7872.2650 million, 5390.5555 million, 4762.7902 million, 3985.5128 million, and down 20.41%, down 24.92%, down 7.42%, down 8.76%, down 20.17%. And the trade deficits were mainly from NETHERLANDS, GERMANY, CHINA, BELGIUM, ITALY at 28600.4927 million, 28094.8158 million, 20665.5857 million, 18507.0888 million, 10288.8248 million, and down 3.20%, down 17.91%, up 70.73%, down 19.96%, up 9.97%.

Current year until 202011, FRANCE's trade surplus or deficit with top five countries/territories During the current year until 202011,  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 115212.9877 million, 99600.6321 million, 84127.1863 million, 60737.9782 million, 45781.1830 million, which were down 18.17%, down 14.60%, down 10.38%, up 8.73%, down 40.97% comparing with the same period of last year and account for 11.87%, 10.26%, 8.67%, 6.26%, 4.72% of FRANCE's total imports and exports.

During the current year until 202011, 84, 87, 85, 30, 88 were FRANCE's top five traded commodities, with total import and export values of 49453.4444 million, 40282.2925 million, 35334.3371 million, 34483.7360 million, 24822.1047 million. These values correspond to 11.21%, 9.13%, 8.01%, 7.82%, 5.63% of FRANCE's total exports and, respectively, were down 20.43%, down 17.79%, down 11.83%, up 5.63%, down 47.44% comparing to the same period of last year.

During the current year until 202011, 84, 87, 85, 27, 30 were FRANCE's top five traded commodities, with total import values of 65759.5433 million, 59318.3396 million, 48792.8492 million, 36778.4600 million, 26254.2422 million. These values correspond to 12.42%, 11.20%, 9.21%, 6.94%, 4.96% of FRANCE's total exports and, respectively, were down 16.38%, down 12.29%, down 9.30%, down 39.82%, up 13.08% comparing to the same period of last year.

2. Current year until 202011, FRANCE binational trade profile

According to Dalian Infobank, during the current year until 202011, FRANCE-China binational exports and imports of goods amounted to 54648.3565 million and were up 0.39% comparing with the same period of last year. Among these, exports from FRANCE to China were 16991.3854 million and down 19.72%, imports from China to FRANCE were 37656.9711 million and up 13.18%. The total binational trade deficit was 20665.5857 million and up 70.73%.

During the urrent year until 202011, commodities with hs2 code, 85, 84, 63, 62, 94, were binational trade's top five traded commodities. They correspond to import and export values of 8387.2201 million, 8141.9231 million, 5691.4583 million, 2224.5403 million, 2159.2230 million and makes up 15.35%, 14.90%, 10.41%, 4.07%, 3.95% of the total binational imports and exports. These values were also up 0.22%, down 9.33%, up 958.77%, up 3.80%, down 3.08% comparing to the same period last year.

During the current year until 202011, 84, 30, 33, 85, 88 were the top five traded commodities exported to China from FRANCE, with export values of 2785.0639 million, 1545.3595 million, 1521.0772 million, 1140.2995 million, 954.7064 million. These values account for 16.39%, 9.09%, 8.95%, 6.71%, 5.62% of FRANCE's total exports and were down 16.87%, up 22.17%, up 20.76%, down 3.71%, down 83.68% comparing to the same period of last year.

During the current year until 202011, 85, 63, 84, 94, 62 were FRANCE's top five traded commodities importing from China , with import values of 7246.9206 million, 5672.3155 million, 5356.8591 million, 2061.8089 million, 1980.1313 million. These values account for 19.24%, 15.06%, 14.23%, 5.48%, 5.26% of FRANCE's total imports and were up 0.87%, up 971.84%, down 4.84%, down 4.19%, up 2.53% comparing with the same period of last year.

3.Analysis of import and export trends

Data Source: Eurostat