1.  Overview the trade of FRANCE in goods current year until 202101

According to Dalian Infobank, in 202101, FRANCE's exports and imports of goods amounted to 95889.5156 million, and were down 0.06% comparing with the same period of last year. Among these, exports were up 0.78% at 43452.9977 million, and imports were down 0.75% at 52436.5179 million. And the corresponding trade deficit was 8983.5202 million and down 7.53%.

During the current year until 202101, FRANCE's total exports and imports of goods were 95889.5156 million and were down 0.06% comparing to the same period of last year. Among these, exports were 43452.9977 million and up 0.78%; imports were 52436.5179 million and down 0.75%. The total trade deficit was 8983.5202 million and down 7.53%.

If considering by country (region), GERMANY, BELGIUM, ITALY, SPAIN, NETHERLANDS were FRANCE's top five trading partners. During the current year until 202101, FRANCE's imports and exports to five countries/territories were 15505.9956 million, 8931.1167 million, 7774.6953 million, 7611.4204 million, 6572.4882 million. These values correspond to 16.17%, 9.31%, 8.11%, 7.94%, 6.85% of FRANCE's imports and exports, and, respectively, were up 0.17%, up 4.90%, up 3.40%, up 7.39%, up 7.38% comparing to the same period of last year.

Current year until 202101, FRANCE and the top five trade partners GERMANY, ITALY, SPAIN, BELGIUM, UNITED STATES are the top five countries/territories that FRANCE exports to in terms of the total export amount. During the current year until 202101, FRANCE's exports to these five countries/territories were 6326.3574 million, 3589.5809 million, 3577.4215 million, 3354.9392 million, 2975.3449 million. These values correspond to 14.56%, 8.26%, 8.23%, 7.72%, 6.85% of FRANCE's exports and, respectively, were down 0.49%, up 2.55%, up 7.82%, up 3.80%, down 6.88% comparing with the same period of last year.

Current year until 202101, 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 202101, FRANCE's imports from these five countries/territories were 9179.6382 million, 5576.1775 million, 4886.0071 million, 4185.1143 million, 4033.9989 million. These values correspond to 17.51%, 10.63%, 9.32%, 7.98%, 7.69% of FRANCE's total imports and, respectively, were up 0.62%, up 5.56%, up 9.02%, up 4.15%, up 7.02% comparing with the same period of last year.

During the current year until 202101, the trade surplus of FRANCE was mainly from UNITED KINGDOM, UNITED STATES, COUNTRIES AND TERRITORIES NOT SPECIFIED FOR COMMERCIAL OR MILITARY REASONS IN THE FRAMEWORK OF TRADE WITH THIRD COUNTRIES, SINGAPORE, HONG KONG at 972.0578 million, 962.9630 million, 737.2832 million, 396.0233 million, 309.5539 million, and up 79.63%, down 1201.06%, up 369.67%, down 43.92%, down 11.94%. And the trade deficits were mainly from NETHERLANDS, GERMANY, BELGIUM, CHINA, ITALY at 3199.5260 million, 2853.2808 million, 2221.2382 million, 1872.0177 million, 595.5334 million, and up 12.56%, up 3.17%, up 8.34%, up 1.32%, up 15.01%.

Current year until 202101, FRANCE's trade surplus or deficit with top five countries/territories During the current year until 202101,  commodities with hs2 codes, 84, 87, 85, 27, 30, were FRANCE's top five traded commodities. They correspond to the import and export values of 11085.6297 million, 10065.6074 million, 8678.6178 million, 5939.6433 million, 5836.3511 million, which were down 6.90%, up 3.05%, up 9.06%, down 5.48%, up 8.56% comparing with the same period of last year and account for 11.56%, 10.50%, 9.05%, 6.19%, 6.09% of FRANCE's total imports and exports.

During the current year until 202101, 84, 87, 30, 85, 39 were FRANCE's top five traded commodities, with total import and export values of 4659.6502 million, 4425.7318 million, 3548.8871 million, 3460.1706 million, 1900.8336 million. These values correspond to 10.72%, 10.19%, 8.17%, 7.96%, 4.37% of FRANCE's total exports and, respectively, were down 10.89%, up 7.76%, up 20.57%, up 5.14%, up 7.88% comparing to the same period of last year.

During the current year until 202101, 84, 87, 85, 27, 30 were FRANCE's top five traded commodities, with total import values of 6425.9796 million, 5639.8756 million, 5218.4472 million, 4779.6761 million, 2287.4640 million. These values correspond to 12.25%, 10.76%, 9.95%, 9.12%, 4.36% of FRANCE's total exports and, respectively, were down 3.78%, down 0.36%, up 11.82%, down 5.18%, down 5.98% comparing to the same period of last year.

2. Current year until 202101, FRANCE binational trade profile

According to Dalian Infobank, during the current year until 202101, FRANCE-China binational exports and imports of goods amounted to 5568.4794 million and were up 27.03% comparing with the same period of last year. Among these, exports from FRANCE to China were 1848.2308 million and up 45.76%, imports from China to FRANCE were 3720.2486 million and up 19.40%. The total binational trade deficit was 1872.0177 million and up 1.32%.

During the urrent year until 202101, commodities with hs2 code, 85, 84, 42, 62, 94, were binational trade's top five traded commodities. They correspond to import and export values of 920.5934 million, 865.5139 million, 286.0095 million, 272.8388 million, 264.7153 million and makes up 16.53%, 15.54%, 5.14%, 4.90%, 4.75% of the total binational imports and exports. These values were also up 28.95%, up 15.80%, up 152.26%, up 34.71%, up 0.56% comparing to the same period last year.

During the current year until 202101, 84, 42, 33, 30, 85 were the top five traded commodities exported to China from FRANCE, with export values of 280.8284 million, 225.5270 million, 170.5945 million, 129.9179 million, 109.3953 million. These values account for 15.19%, 12.20%, 9.23%, 7.03%, 5.92% of FRANCE's total exports and were up 17.95%, up 458.86%, up 47.03%, up 2.20%, up 35.53% comparing to the same period of last year.

During the current year until 202101, 85, 84, 94, 62, 39 were FRANCE's top five traded commodities importing from China , with import values of 811.1980 million, 584.6855 million, 258.3693 million, 214.3159 million, 170.7595 million. These values account for 21.80%, 15.72%, 6.94%, 5.76%, 4.59% of FRANCE's total imports and were up 28.11%, up 14.79%, up 7.14%, up 14.71%, up 28.41% comparing with the same period of last year.

3.Analysis of import and export trends

Data Source: Eurostat