1.  Overview the trade of FRANCE in goods current year until 202103

According to Dalian Infobank, in 202103, FRANCE's exports and imports of goods amounted to 115332.5772 million, and were up 29.05% comparing with the same period of last year. Among these, exports were up 23.16% at 52501.8556 million, and imports were up 34.42% at 62830.7216 million. And the corresponding trade deficit was 10328.8661 million and up 151.08%.

During the current year until 202103, FRANCE's total exports and imports of goods were 310373.8029 million and were up 10.38% comparing to the same period of last year. Among these, exports were 141141.4236 million and up 8.32%; imports were 169232.3792 million and up 12.16%. The total trade deficit was 28090.9556 million and up 36.50%.

If considering by country (region), GERMANY, BELGIUM, ITALY, SPAIN, NETHERLANDS were FRANCE's top five trading partners. During the current year until 202103, FRANCE's imports and exports to five countries/territories were 50414.0202 million, 28187.3206 million, 25710.2480 million, 24523.4212 million, 20358.4497 million. These values correspond to 16.24%, 9.08%, 8.28%, 7.90%, 6.56% of FRANCE's imports and exports, and, respectively, were up 11.14%, up 17.63%, up 16.95%, up 18.82%, up 19.65% comparing to the same period of last year.

Current year until 202103, FRANCE and the top five trade partners GERMANY, ITALY, BELGIUM, SPAIN, UNITED STATES are the top five countries/territories that FRANCE exports to in terms of the total export amount. During the current year until 202103, FRANCE's exports to these five countries/territories were 20725.5020 million, 11387.4983 million, 10856.1093 million, 10710.3073 million, 9438.5042 million. These values correspond to 14.68%, 8.07%, 7.69%, 7.59%, 6.69% of FRANCE's exports and, respectively, were up 9.62%, up 13.94%, up 15.17%, up 9.28%, down 11.12% comparing with the same period of last year.

Current year until 202103, 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 202103, FRANCE's imports from these five countries/territories were 29688.5183 million, 17331.2114 million, 14857.1331 million, 14322.7497 million, 13813.1139 million. These values correspond to 17.54%, 10.24%, 8.78%, 8.46%, 8.16% of FRANCE's total imports and, respectively, were up 12.23%, up 19.23%, up 21.22%, up 19.46%, up 27.44% comparing with the same period of last year.

During the current year until 202103, the trade surplus of FRANCE was mainly from UNITED STATES, UNITED KINGDOM, COUNTRIES AND TERRITORIES NOT SPECIFIED FOR COMMERCIAL OR MILITARY REASONS IN THE FRAMEWORK OF TRADE WITH THIRD COUNTRIES, SINGAPORE, HONG KONG at 2878.2039 million, 2579.9881 million, 1900.1020 million, 1497.5618 million, 1180.7834 million, and up 121.74%, up 6.29%, up 68.57%, down 7.84%, up 37.61%. And the trade deficits were mainly from NETHERLANDS, GERMANY, BELGIUM, CHINA, SPAIN at 9355.8165 million, 8963.0163 million, 6475.1021 million, 5107.7015 million, 3102.8066 million, and up 24.81%, up 18.75%, up 26.73%, up 15.63%, up 198.78%.

Current year until 202103, FRANCE's trade surplus or deficit with top five countries/territories During the current year until 202103,  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 36813.1489 million, 34665.3249 million, 26965.0022 million, 17699.7318 million, 16956.9977 million, which were up 6.89%, up 22.45%, up 17.55%, up 3.48%, up 4.04% comparing with the same period of last year and account for 11.86%, 11.17%, 8.69%, 5.70%, 5.46% of FRANCE's total imports and exports.

During the current year until 202103, 84, 87, 85, 30, 39 were FRANCE's top five traded commodities, with total import and export values of 15529.7275 million, 14456.0197 million, 10930.1650 million, 10058.5948 million, 6187.0437 million. These values correspond to 11.00%, 10.24%, 7.74%, 7.13%, 4.38% of FRANCE's total exports and, respectively, were up 3.82%, up 20.34%, up 10.12%, up 3.26%, up 19.16% comparing to the same period of last year.

During the current year until 202103, 84, 87, 85, 27, 30 were FRANCE's top five traded commodities, with total import values of 21283.4214 million, 20209.3051 million, 16034.8372 million, 13520.0466 million, 7641.1370 million. These values correspond to 12.58%, 11.94%, 9.48%, 7.99%, 4.52% of FRANCE's total exports and, respectively, were up 9.25%, up 24.01%, up 23.22%, up 3.43%, up 3.78% comparing to the same period of last year.

2. Current year until 202103, FRANCE binational trade profile

According to Dalian Infobank, during the current year until 202103, FRANCE-China binational exports and imports of goods amounted to 17058.3296 million and were up 39.76% comparing with the same period of last year. Among these, exports from FRANCE to China were 5975.3140 million and up 53.45%, imports from China to FRANCE were 11083.0155 million and up 33.35%. The total binational trade deficit was 5107.7015 million and up 15.63%.

During the urrent year until 202103, commodities with hs2 code, 85, 84, 42, 94, 62, were binational trade's top five traded commodities. They correspond to import and export values of 2740.6948 million, 2702.0788 million, 836.5428 million, 814.8677 million, 727.5011 million and makes up 16.07%, 15.84%, 4.90%, 4.78%, 4.26% of the total binational imports and exports. These values were also up 36.69%, up 24.94%, up 175.14%, up 18.31%, up 56.66% comparing to the same period last year.

During the current year until 202103, 84, 42, 33, 30, 85 were the top five traded commodities exported to China from FRANCE, with export values of 879.0928 million, 662.2660 million, 523.9162 million, 439.5583 million, 340.5072 million. These values account for 14.71%, 11.08%, 8.77%, 7.36%, 5.70% of FRANCE's total exports and were up 16.51%, up 508.03%, up 42.62%, down 13.38%, up 27.32% comparing to the same period of last year.

During the current year until 202103, 85, 84, 94, 62, 39 were FRANCE's top five traded commodities importing from China , with import values of 2400.1876 million, 1822.9860 million, 795.3106 million, 563.6204 million, 500.7371 million. These values account for 21.66%, 16.45%, 7.18%, 5.09%, 4.52% of FRANCE's total imports and were up 38.13%, up 29.45%, up 20.95%, up 35.33%, up 39.96% comparing with the same period of last year.

3.Analysis of import and export trends

Data Source: Eurostat