1.  Overview the trade of FRANCE in goods current year until 202012

According to Dalian Infobank, in 202012, FRANCE's exports and imports of goods amounted to 99865.9288 million, and were up 5.11% comparing with the same period of last year. Among these, exports were up 3.98% at 47130.7418 million, and imports were up 6.13% at 52735.1870 million. And the corresponding trade deficit was 5604.4453 million and up 28.47%.

During the current year until 202012, FRANCE's total exports and imports of goods were 1070696.3736 million and were down 12.64% comparing to the same period of last year. Among these, exports were 488344.7671 million and down 14.47%; imports were 582351.6065 million and down 11.04%. The total trade deficit was 94006.8393 million and up 12.30%.

If considering by country (region), GERMANY, BELGIUM, ITALY, SPAIN, NETHERLANDS were FRANCE's top five trading partners. During the current year until 202012, FRANCE's imports and exports to five countries/territories were 171005.4125 million, 91831.4109 million, 85732.5280 million, 81645.0504 million, 68664.3020 million. These values correspond to 15.97%, 8.58%, 8.01%, 7.63%, 6.41% of FRANCE's imports and exports, and, respectively, were down 11.80%, down 10.98%, down 9.86%, down 8.09%, down 4.66% comparing to the same period of last year.

Current year until 202012, FRANCE and the top five trade partners GERMANY, ITALY, UNITED STATES, BELGIUM, SPAIN are the top five countries/territories that FRANCE exports to in terms of the total export amount. During the current year until 202012, FRANCE's exports to these five countries/territories were 69878.1987 million, 37104.7661 million, 36918.9734 million, 35928.7567 million, 35663.7575 million. These values correspond to 14.31%, 7.60%, 7.56%, 7.36%, 7.30% of FRANCE's exports and, respectively, were down 11.28%, down 12.37%, down 21.57%, down 8.13%, down 15.28% comparing with the same period of last year.

Current year until 202012, 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 202012, FRANCE's imports from these five countries/territories were 101127.2138 million, 55902.6542 million, 50238.0549 million, 48627.7619 million, 45981.2929 million. These values correspond to 17.37%, 9.60%, 8.63%, 8.35%, 7.90% of FRANCE's total imports and, respectively, were down 12.15%, down 12.72%, down 3.66%, down 7.85%, down 1.61% comparing with the same period of last year.

During the current year until 202012, 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 9204.0322 million, 9081.1357 million, 5970.5050 million, 5287.8200 million, 4396.7335 million, and down 15.29%, down 20.14%, down 4.62%, down 6.49%, down 16.38%. And the trade deficits were mainly from NETHERLANDS, GERMANY, CHINA, BELGIUM, ITALY at 31811.8077 million, 31249.0152 million, 21032.7143 million, 19973.8975 million, 11522.9959 million, and down 1.44%, down 14.04%, up 67.68%, down 19.92%, up 10.50%.

Current year until 202012, FRANCE's trade surplus or deficit with top five countries/territories During the current year until 202012,  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 127243.4417 million, 110401.8429 million, 93208.5730 million, 66761.0236 million, 50068.5288 million, which were down 16.72%, down 12.86%, down 8.71%, up 9.91%, down 40.22% comparing with the same period of last year and account for 11.88%, 10.31%, 8.71%, 6.24%, 4.68% of FRANCE's total imports and exports.

During the current year until 202012, 84, 87, 85, 30, 88 were FRANCE's top five traded commodities, with total import and export values of 54720.5945 million, 44643.2859 million, 39026.8942 million, 37890.9475 million, 29243.0391 million. These values correspond to 11.21%, 9.14%, 7.99%, 7.76%, 5.99% of FRANCE's total exports and, respectively, were down 19.05%, down 15.88%, down 10.75%, up 6.60%, down 45.41% comparing to the same period of last year.

During the current year until 202012, 84, 87, 85, 27, 30 were FRANCE's top five traded commodities, with total import values of 72522.8472 million, 65758.5570 million, 54181.6789 million, 40085.6993 million, 28870.0761 million. These values correspond to 12.45%, 11.29%, 9.30%, 6.88%, 4.96% of FRANCE's total exports and, respectively, were down 14.88%, down 10.69%, down 7.19%, down 39.39%, up 14.58% comparing to the same period of last year.

2. Current year until 202012, FRANCE binational trade profile

According to Dalian Infobank, during the current year until 202012, FRANCE-China binational exports and imports of goods amounted to 61167.0541 million and were up 3.13% comparing with the same period of last year. Among these, exports from FRANCE to China were 20067.1699 million and down 14.18%, imports from China to FRANCE were 41099.8842 million and up 14.40%. The total binational trade deficit was 21032.7143 million and up 67.68%.

During the urrent year until 202012, 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 9230.5839 million, 9083.2687 million, 5781.0141 million, 2456.9465 million, 2384.2970 million and makes up 15.09%, 14.85%, 9.45%, 4.02%, 3.90% of the total binational imports and exports. These values were also up 1.69%, down 7.32%, up 902.81%, up 5.71%, down 0.66% comparing to the same period last year.

During the current year until 202012, 84, 88, 33, 30, 85 were the top five traded commodities exported to China from FRANCE, with export values of 3183.7046 million, 1993.2347 million, 1688.6732 million, 1686.8944 million, 1251.8929 million. These values account for 15.87%, 9.93%, 8.42%, 8.41%, 6.24% of FRANCE's total exports and were down 14.78%, down 69.84%, up 24.29%, up 19.82%, down 3.82% comparing to the same period of last year.

During the current year until 202012, 85, 84, 63, 94, 62 were FRANCE's top five traded commodities importing from China , with import values of 7978.6909 million, 5899.5641 million, 5760.9392 million, 2276.9998 million, 2156.0886 million. These values account for 19.41%, 14.35%, 14.02%, 5.54%, 5.25% of FRANCE's total imports and were up 2.62%, down 2.72%, up 915.19%, down 1.75%, up 3.14% comparing with the same period of last year.

3.Analysis of import and export trends

Data Source: Eurostat