1.  Overview the trade of FRANCE in goods current year until 202109

According to Dalian Infobank, in 202109, FRANCE's exports and imports of goods amounted to 111746.5498 million, and were up 12.02% comparing with the same period of last year. Among these, exports were up 11.13% at 50450.1851 million, and imports were up 12.76% at 61296.3647 million. And the corresponding trade deficit was 10846.1797 million and up 21.04%.

During the current year until 202109, FRANCE's total exports and imports of goods were 949685.2608 million and were up 24.06% comparing to the same period of last year. Among these, exports were 429586.4003 million and up 24.32%; imports were 520098.8605 million and up 23.85%. The total trade deficit was 90512.4602 million and up 21.69%.

If considering by country (region), GERMANY, BELGIUM, ITALY, SPAIN, NETHERLANDS were FRANCE's top five trading partners. During the current year until 202109, FRANCE's imports and exports to five countries/territories were 149712.6091 million, 86622.3981 million, 78130.4174 million, 72885.3123 million, 63349.3296 million. These values correspond to 15.76%, 9.12%, 8.23%, 7.67%, 6.67% of FRANCE's imports and exports, and, respectively, were up 23.08%, up 30.04%, up 28.73%, up 26.42%, up 29.76% comparing to the same period of last year.

Current year until 202109, 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 202109, FRANCE's exports to these five countries/territories were 60644.1794 million, 33975.9263 million, 32710.3662 million, 31683.1775 million, 30543.1553 million. These values correspond to 14.12%, 7.91%, 7.61%, 7.38%, 7.11% of FRANCE's exports and, respectively, were up 22.03%, up 29.36%, up 27.07%, up 25.03%, up 10.50% comparing with the same period of last year.

Current year until 202109, 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 202109, FRANCE's imports from these five countries/territories were 89068.4296 million, 53912.0319 million, 46179.5590 million, 44154.4911 million, 41202.1349 million. These values correspond to 17.13%, 10.37%, 8.88%, 8.49%, 7.92% of FRANCE's total imports and, respectively, were up 23.82%, up 31.91%, up 30.06%, up 28.26%, up 27.51% comparing with the same period of last year.

During the current year until 202109, 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 8617.6348 million, 7008.5571 million, 4911.3116 million, 4890.3007 million, 3995.5139 million, and up 34.41%, up 22.35%, up 29.23%, up 68.32%, up 12.72%. And the trade deficits were mainly from NETHERLANDS, GERMANY, BELGIUM, CHINA, ITALY at 29009.7885 million, 28424.2502 million, 21201.6658 million, 13357.9008 million, 10178.5649 million, and up 30.73%, up 27.81%, up 40.14%, down 24.79%, up 24.70%.

Current year until 202109, FRANCE's trade surplus or deficit with top five countries/territories During the current year until 202109,  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 110266.0023 million, 94718.0778 million, 80340.7203 million, 58455.7997 million, 54489.8631 million, which were up 21.26%, up 28.69%, up 23.15%, up 54.52%, up 10.67% comparing with the same period of last year and account for 11.61%, 9.97%, 8.46%, 6.16%, 5.74% of FRANCE's total imports and exports.

During the current year until 202109, 84, 87, 85, 30, 88 were FRANCE's top five traded commodities, with total import and export values of 46659.2753 million, 38115.2109 million, 33180.9499 million, 29135.0429 million, 21908.4323 million. These values correspond to 10.86%, 8.87%, 7.72%, 6.78%, 5.10% of FRANCE's total exports and, respectively, were up 20.59%, up 30.56%, up 19.25%, up 5.16%, up 16.23% comparing to the same period of last year.

During the current year until 202109, 84, 87, 85, 27, 30 were FRANCE's top five traded commodities, with total import values of 63606.7270 million, 56602.8668 million, 47159.7704 million, 45536.8914 million, 25354.8202 million. These values correspond to 12.23%, 10.88%, 9.07%, 8.76%, 4.88% of FRANCE's total exports and, respectively, were up 21.75%, up 27.46%, up 26.05%, up 49.14%, up 17.76% comparing to the same period of last year.

2. Current year until 202109, FRANCE binational trade profile

According to Dalian Infobank, during the current year until 202109, FRANCE-China binational exports and imports of goods amounted to 55644.7402 million and were up 27.66% comparing with the same period of last year. Among these, exports from FRANCE to China were 21143.4197 million and up 63.73%, imports from China to FRANCE were 34501.3205 million and up 12.48%. The total binational trade deficit was 13357.9008 million and down 24.79%.

During the urrent year until 202109, 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 8581.9473 million, 8243.4152 million, 3093.6516 million, 2526.4697 million, 2483.6080 million and makes up 15.42%, 14.81%, 5.56%, 4.54%, 4.46% of the total binational imports and exports. These values were also up 30.67%, up 25.53%, up 388.39%, up 154.18%, up 42.93% comparing to the same period last year.

During the current year until 202109, 88, 84, 42, 33, 30 were the top five traded commodities exported to China from FRANCE, with export values of 3019.6426 million, 2691.3536 million, 1976.3477 million, 1743.7075 million, 1486.0591 million. These values account for 14.28%, 12.73%, 9.35%, 8.25%, 7.03% of FRANCE's total exports and were up 456.58%, up 22.00%, up 318.03%, up 47.41%, up 23.62% comparing to the same period of last year.

During the current year until 202109, 85, 84, 94, 62, 39 were FRANCE's top five traded commodities importing from China , with import values of 7521.0235 million, 5552.0616 million, 2356.0777 million, 1874.1852 million, 1458.0894 million. These values account for 21.80%, 16.09%, 6.83%, 5.43%, 4.23% of FRANCE's total imports and were up 32.45%, up 27.32%, up 40.97%, up 19.03%, up 25.36% comparing with the same period of last year.

3.Analysis of import and export trends

Data Source: Eurostat