1.  Overview the trade of FRANCE in goods current year until 202108

According to Dalian Infobank, in 202108, FRANCE's exports and imports of goods amounted to 92869.6237 million, and were up 21.57% comparing with the same period of last year. Among these, exports were up 23.48% at 40925.2411 million, and imports were up 20.11% at 51944.3827 million. And the corresponding trade deficit was 11019.1416 million and up 9.07%.

During the current year until 202108, FRANCE's total exports and imports of goods were 837899.0430 million and were up 25.86% comparing to the same period of last year. Among these, exports were 379151.7053 million and up 26.31%; imports were 458747.3377 million and up 25.48%. The total trade deficit was 79595.6324 million and up 21.67%.

If considering by country (region), GERMANY, BELGIUM, ITALY, SPAIN, NETHERLANDS were FRANCE's top five trading partners. During the current year until 202108, FRANCE's imports and exports to five countries/territories were 132435.5989 million, 75630.9515 million, 68732.8739 million, 64295.4491 million, 55675.6704 million. These values correspond to 15.81%, 9.03%, 8.20%, 7.67%, 6.64% of FRANCE's imports and exports, and, respectively, were up 25.85%, up 30.71%, up 31.54%, up 29.56%, up 30.59% comparing to the same period of last year.

Current year until 202108, 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 202108, FRANCE's exports to these five countries/territories were 53465.4817 million, 29866.1577 million, 28589.7028 million, 27810.6286 million, 27085.7899 million. These values correspond to 14.10%, 7.88%, 7.54%, 7.33%, 7.14% of FRANCE's exports and, respectively, were up 24.44%, up 30.92%, up 29.38%, up 26.99%, up 12.52% comparing with the same period of last year.

Current year until 202108, 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 202108, FRANCE's imports from these five countries/territories were 78970.1172 million, 47041.2487 million, 40588.7079 million, 38866.7162 million, 36484.8205 million. These values correspond to 17.21%, 10.25%, 8.85%, 8.47%, 7.95% of FRANCE's total imports and, respectively, were up 26.82%, up 31.53%, up 31.12%, up 32.01%, up 31.59% comparing with the same period of last year.

During the current year until 202108, 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 7779.8614 million, 6157.8454 million, 4656.8169 million, 4502.8143 million, 3458.1187 million, and up 51.83%, up 30.05%, up 69.16%, up 34.94%, up 31.68%. And the trade deficits were mainly from GERMANY, NETHERLANDS, BELGIUM, CHINA, ITALY at 25504.6354 million, 25501.7455 million, 18451.5460 million, 11350.6195 million, 9000.5585 million, and up 32.12%, up 32.29%, up 34.99%, down 26.36%, up 35.77%.

Current year until 202108, FRANCE's trade surplus or deficit with top five countries/territories During the current year until 202108,  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 97372.1915 million, 84537.8559 million, 70840.1853 million, 50533.2607 million, 48174.5821 million, which were up 23.15%, up 37.18%, up 25.46%, up 48.64%, up 11.63% comparing with the same period of last year and account for 11.62%, 10.09%, 8.45%, 6.03%, 5.75% of FRANCE's total imports and exports.

During the current year until 202108, 84, 87, 85, 30, 88 were FRANCE's top five traded commodities, with total import and export values of 41065.8758 million, 33883.3597 million, 29170.1695 million, 25827.8268 million, 19282.5013 million. These values correspond to 10.83%, 8.94%, 7.69%, 6.81%, 5.09% of FRANCE's total exports and, respectively, were up 22.22%, up 38.48%, up 20.96%, up 7.04%, up 21.63% comparing to the same period of last year.

During the current year until 202108, 84, 87, 85, 27, 30 were FRANCE's top five traded commodities, with total import values of 56306.3156 million, 50654.4963 million, 41670.0158 million, 39667.7331 million, 22346.7553 million. These values correspond to 12.27%, 11.04%, 9.08%, 8.65%, 4.87% of FRANCE's total exports and, respectively, were up 23.84%, up 36.32%, up 28.82%, up 44.53%, up 17.46% comparing to the same period of last year.

2. Current year until 202108, FRANCE binational trade profile

According to Dalian Infobank, during the current year until 202108, FRANCE-China binational exports and imports of goods amounted to 49164.3572 million and were up 29.60% comparing with the same period of last year. Among these, exports from FRANCE to China were 18906.8688 million and up 67.90%, imports from China to FRANCE were 30257.4883 million and up 13.43%. The total binational trade deficit was 11350.6195 million and down 26.36%.

During the urrent year until 202108, commodities with hs2 code, 85, 84, 88, 42, 62, were binational trade's top five traded commodities. They correspond to import and export values of 7536.2068 million, 7234.6717 million, 2951.7933 million, 2232.3775 million, 2161.0230 million and makes up 15.33%, 14.72%, 6.00%, 4.54%, 4.40% of the total binational imports and exports. These values were also up 33.13%, up 26.60%, up 382.32%, up 149.50%, up 55.51% comparing to the same period last year.

During the current year until 202108, 88, 84, 42, 33, 30 were the top five traded commodities exported to China from FRANCE, with export values of 2885.3400 million, 2320.3438 million, 1750.5317 million, 1550.1065 million, 1315.9791 million. These values account for 15.26%, 12.27%, 9.26%, 8.20%, 6.96% of FRANCE's total exports and were up 446.48%, up 23.77%, up 319.71%, up 53.07%, up 20.10% comparing to the same period of last year.

During the current year until 202108, 85, 84, 94, 62, 39 were FRANCE's top five traded commodities importing from China , with import values of 6582.2229 million, 4914.3279 million, 2082.3902 million, 1614.7050 million, 1293.2391 million. These values account for 21.75%, 16.24%, 6.88%, 5.34%, 4.27% of FRANCE's total imports and were up 34.82%, up 27.98%, up 41.11%, up 28.55%, up 25.69% comparing with the same period of last year.

3.Analysis of import and export trends

Data Source: Eurostat