1.  Overview the trade of FRANCE in goods current year until 202104

According to Dalian Infobank, in 202104, FRANCE's exports and imports of goods amounted to 108536.0106 million, and were up 81.19% comparing with the same period of last year. Among these, exports were up 83.51% at 49454.5794 million, and imports were up 79.29% at 59081.4312 million. And the corresponding trade deficit was 9626.8518 million and up 60.35%.

During the current year until 202104, FRANCE's total exports and imports of goods were 418891.6029 million and were up 22.81% comparing to the same period of last year. Among these, exports were 190615.7862 million and up 21.22%; imports were 228275.8168 million and up 24.17%. The total trade deficit was 37660.0306 million and up 41.67%.

If considering by country (region), GERMANY, BELGIUM, ITALY, SPAIN, NETHERLANDS were FRANCE's top five trading partners. During the current year until 202104, FRANCE's imports and exports to five countries/territories were 67094.1223 million, 37465.8429 million, 34541.0636 million, 32801.9906 million, 27447.7425 million. These values correspond to 16.02%, 8.94%, 8.25%, 7.83%, 6.55% of FRANCE's imports and exports, and, respectively, were up 22.91%, up 27.36%, up 30.52%, up 34.26%, up 30.02% comparing to the same period of last year.

Current year until 202104, 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 202104, FRANCE's exports to these five countries/territories were 27170.0357 million, 15156.2012 million, 14402.7227 million, 14170.0860 million, 12878.4133 million. These values correspond to 14.25%, 7.95%, 7.56%, 7.43%, 6.76% of FRANCE's exports and, respectively, were up 19.64%, up 24.61%, up 25.25%, up 24.00%, down 0.35% comparing with the same period of last year.

Current year until 202104, 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 202104, FRANCE's imports from these five countries/territories were 39924.0866 million, 23063.1202 million, 20046.2631 million, 19384.8624 million, 18631.9046 million. These values correspond to 17.49%, 10.10%, 8.78%, 8.49%, 8.16% of FRANCE's total imports and, respectively, were up 25.24%, up 28.72%, up 32.32%, up 35.54%, up 43.27% comparing with the same period of last year.

During the current year until 202104, 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, SWITZERLAND at 3641.3388 million, 3344.6858 million, 2557.1326 million, 2439.7978 million, 1859.9711 million, and up 131.31%, up 26.20%, up 112.82%, up 32.36%, up 120.43%. And the trade deficits were mainly from GERMANY, NETHERLANDS, BELGIUM, CHINA, SPAIN at 12754.0509 million, 12644.7837 million, 8660.3975 million, 5680.6621 million, 4461.8186 million, and up 39.11%, up 37.59%, up 34.95%, down 2.22%, up 182.85%.

Current year until 202104, FRANCE's trade surplus or deficit with top five countries/territories During the current year until 202104,  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 49391.5277 million, 46205.7798 million, 35937.3755 million, 23580.5622 million, 22878.5842 million, which were up 19.12%, up 52.75%, up 28.94%, up 4.95%, up 19.95% comparing with the same period of last year and account for 11.79%, 11.03%, 8.58%, 5.63%, 5.46% of FRANCE's total imports and exports.

During the current year until 202104, 84, 87, 85, 30, 88 were FRANCE's top five traded commodities, with total import and export values of 20681.8539 million, 18951.4565 million, 14616.1818 million, 13153.3382 million, 9117.1201 million. These values correspond to 10.85%, 9.94%, 7.67%, 6.90%, 4.78% of FRANCE's total exports and, respectively, were up 16.21%, up 49.34%, up 21.45%, up 3.36%, down 6.61% comparing to the same period of last year.

During the current year until 202104, 84, 87, 85, 27, 30 were FRANCE's top five traded commodities, with total import values of 28709.6738 million, 27254.3233 million, 21321.1937 million, 18252.5727 million, 10427.2240 million. These values correspond to 12.58%, 11.94%, 9.34%, 8.00%, 4.57% of FRANCE's total exports and, respectively, were up 21.31%, up 55.22%, up 34.63%, up 19.57%, up 7.03% comparing to the same period of last year.

2. Current year until 202104, FRANCE binational trade profile

According to Dalian Infobank, during the current year until 202104, FRANCE-China binational exports and imports of goods amounted to 23712.8858 million and were up 45.72% comparing with the same period of last year. Among these, exports from FRANCE to China were 9016.1119 million and up 72.34%, imports from China to FRANCE were 14696.7739 million and up 33.11%. The total binational trade deficit was 5680.6621 million and down 2.22%.

During the urrent year until 202104, commodities with hs2 code, 85, 84, 88, 42, 94, were binational trade's top five traded commodities. They correspond to import and export values of 3637.0138 million, 3619.8907 million, 1263.5192 million, 1109.1956 million, 1076.1150 million and makes up 15.34%, 15.27%, 5.33%, 4.68%, 4.54% of the total binational imports and exports. These values were also up 42.48%, up 28.11%, up 453.51%, up 195.37%, up 30.94% comparing to the same period last year.

During the current year until 202104, 88, 84, 42, 33, 30 were the top five traded commodities exported to China from FRANCE, with export values of 1225.7911 million, 1173.3828 million, 884.4741 million, 697.3095 million, 647.8700 million. These values account for 13.60%, 13.01%, 9.81%, 7.73%, 7.19% of FRANCE's total exports and were up 612.69%, up 19.06%, up 499.64%, up 51.86%, up 7.23% comparing to the same period of last year.

During the current year until 202104, 85, 84, 94, 62, 39 were FRANCE's top five traded commodities importing from China , with import values of 3182.9819 million, 2446.5078 million, 1049.3274 million, 715.4110 million, 654.0019 million. These values account for 21.66%, 16.65%, 7.14%, 4.87%, 4.45% of FRANCE's total imports and were up 45.34%, up 32.95%, up 33.64%, up 53.73%, up 44.13% comparing with the same period of last year.

3.Analysis of import and export trends

Data Source: Eurostat