1.  Overview the trade of FRANCE in goods current year until 202106

According to Dalian Infobank, in 202106, FRANCE's exports and imports of goods amounted to 117145.1760 million, and were up 33.27% comparing with the same period of last year. Among these, exports were up 39.05% at 53702.2585 million, and imports were up 28.75% at 63442.9176 million. And the corresponding trade deficit was 9740.6591 million and down 8.59%.

During the current year until 202106, FRANCE's total exports and imports of goods were 638770.8346 million and were up 28.88% comparing to the same period of last year. Among these, exports were 289952.7948 million and up 29.25%; imports were 348818.0399 million and up 28.58%. The total trade deficit was 58865.2451 million and up 25.36%.

If considering by country (region), GERMANY, BELGIUM, ITALY, SPAIN, NETHERLANDS were FRANCE's top five trading partners. During the current year until 202106, FRANCE's imports and exports to five countries/territories were 101601.8813 million, 57073.3035 million, 53192.3940 million, 50134.9734 million, 42036.6236 million. These values correspond to 15.91%, 8.93%, 8.33%, 7.85%, 6.58% of FRANCE's imports and exports, and, respectively, were up 28.59%, up 31.74%, up 36.38%, up 36.69%, up 33.25% comparing to the same period of last year.

Current year until 202106, 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 202106, FRANCE's exports to these five countries/territories were 40893.6044 million, 23366.6213 million, 21891.5797 million, 21471.0569 million, 20140.1594 million. These values correspond to 14.10%, 8.06%, 7.55%, 7.41%, 6.95% of FRANCE's exports and, respectively, were up 26.34%, up 34.06%, up 30.58%, up 30.68%, up 12.24% comparing with the same period of last year.

Current year until 202106, 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 202106, FRANCE's imports from these five countries/territories were 60708.2769 million, 35181.7238 million, 30528.0866 million, 29825.7727 million, 28663.9165 million. These values correspond to 17.40%, 10.09%, 8.75%, 8.55%, 8.22% of FRANCE's total imports and, respectively, were up 30.15%, up 32.47%, up 33.73%, up 38.25%, up 41.57% comparing with the same period of last year.

During the current year until 202106, the trade surplus of FRANCE was mainly from UNITED STATES, UNITED KINGDOM, SINGAPORE, COUNTRIES AND TERRITORIES NOT SPECIFIED FOR COMMERCIAL OR MILITARY REASONS IN THE FRAMEWORK OF TRADE WITH THIRD COUNTRIES, HONG KONG at 5603.6724 million, 4728.1397 million, 3596.8959 million, 3472.2213 million, 2729.6454 million, and up 77.91%, up 35.25%, up 47.29%, up 92.82%, up 55.96%. And the trade deficits were mainly from GERMANY, NETHERLANDS, BELGIUM, CHINA, SPAIN at 19814.6725 million, 19019.5495 million, 13290.1441 million, 7979.2679 million, 7192.8596 million, and up 38.79%, up 34.81%, up 35.72%, down 27.93%, up 88.46%.

Current year until 202106, FRANCE's trade surplus or deficit with top five countries/territories During the current year until 202106,  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 74979.8474 million, 68802.1872 million, 54282.7068 million, 36461.5252 million, 35200.8133 million, which were up 25.53%, up 53.61%, up 31.26%, up 11.03%, up 36.30% comparing with the same period of last year and account for 11.74%, 10.77%, 8.50%, 5.71%, 5.51% of FRANCE's total imports and exports.

During the current year until 202106, 84, 87, 85, 30, 88 were FRANCE's top five traded commodities, with total import and export values of 31413.1219 million, 27694.0975 million, 22251.0889 million, 19612.4902 million, 15023.1741 million. These values correspond to 10.83%, 9.55%, 7.67%, 6.76%, 5.18% of FRANCE's total exports and, respectively, were up 23.85%, up 52.13%, up 25.52%, up 6.23%, up 22.22% comparing to the same period of last year.

During the current year until 202106, 84, 87, 85, 27, 30 were FRANCE's top five traded commodities, with total import values of 43566.7255 million, 41108.0897 million, 32031.6179 million, 27933.9299 million, 16849.0350 million. These values correspond to 12.49%, 11.78%, 9.18%, 8.01%, 4.83% of FRANCE's total exports and, respectively, were up 26.78%, up 54.63%, up 35.57%, up 33.99%, up 17.20% comparing to the same period of last year.

2. Current year until 202106, FRANCE binational trade profile

According to Dalian Infobank, during the current year until 202106, FRANCE-China binational exports and imports of goods amounted to 36436.6619 million and were up 34.15% comparing with the same period of last year. Among these, exports from FRANCE to China were 14228.6970 million and up 76.88%, imports from China to FRANCE were 22207.9649 million and up 16.17%. The total binational trade deficit was 7979.2679 million and down 27.93%.

During the urrent year until 202106, 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 5559.8106 million, 5497.2528 million, 2356.6838 million, 1678.7866 million, 1581.9170 million and makes up 15.26%, 15.09%, 6.47%, 4.61%, 4.34% of the total binational imports and exports. These values were also up 36.53%, up 31.46%, up 456.80%, up 161.95%, up 40.53% comparing to the same period last year.

During the current year until 202106, 88, 84, 42, 33, 30 were the top five traded commodities exported to China from FRANCE, with export values of 2302.0730 million, 1798.2367 million, 1331.5597 million, 1122.8076 million, 987.0299 million. These values account for 16.18%, 12.64%, 9.36%, 7.89%, 6.94% of FRANCE's total exports and were up 551.08%, up 31.51%, up 372.41%, up 59.90%, up 15.48% comparing to the same period of last year.

During the current year until 202106, 85, 84, 94, 62, 39 were FRANCE's top five traded commodities importing from China , with import values of 4833.8036 million, 3699.0161 million, 1538.9544 million, 1170.0191 million, 984.3115 million. These values account for 21.77%, 16.66%, 6.93%, 5.27%, 4.43% of FRANCE's total imports and were up 37.88%, up 31.43%, up 42.77%, up 60.66%, up 33.26% comparing with the same period of last year.

3.Analysis of import and export trends

Data Source: Eurostat