1.  Overview the trade of FRANCE in goods current year until 202110

According to Dalian Infobank, in 202110, FRANCE's exports and imports of goods amounted to 113381.2941 million, and were up 8.68% comparing with the same period of last year. Among these, exports were up 5.39% at 51354.8270 million, and imports were up 11.57% at 62026.4671 million. And the corresponding trade deficit was 10671.6401 million and up 55.45%.

During the current year until 202110, FRANCE's total exports and imports of goods were 1062880.8356 million and were up 22.29% comparing to the same period of last year. Among these, exports were 480872.9790 million and up 21.85%; imports were 582007.8567 million and up 22.66%. The total trade deficit was 101134.8777 million and up 26.62%.

If considering by country (region), GERMANY, BELGIUM, ITALY, SPAIN, NETHERLANDS were FRANCE's top five trading partners. During the current year until 202110, FRANCE's imports and exports to five countries/territories were 167053.4832 million, 97659.4703 million, 87245.5668 million, 81710.9627 million, 70947.2155 million. These values correspond to 15.72%, 9.19%, 8.21%, 7.69%, 6.67% of FRANCE's imports and exports, and, respectively, were up 20.68%, up 29.29%, up 25.81%, up 23.85%, up 28.18% comparing to the same period of last year.

Current year until 202110, 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 202110, FRANCE's exports to these five countries/territories were 68062.1268 million, 38079.5266 million, 36441.9359 million, 35545.6038 million, 34151.4871 million. These values correspond to 14.15%, 7.92%, 7.58%, 7.39%, 7.10% of FRANCE's exports and, respectively, were up 20.32%, up 26.76%, up 24.65%, up 22.83%, up 9.87% comparing with the same period of last year.

Current year until 202110, 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 202110, FRANCE's imports from these five countries/territories were 98991.3564 million, 61217.5345 million, 51747.8244 million, 49166.0402 million, 46165.3589 million. These values correspond to 17.01%, 10.52%, 8.89%, 8.45%, 7.93% of FRANCE's total imports and, respectively, were up 20.93%, up 32.22%, up 28.46%, up 25.08%, up 24.64% comparing with the same period of last year.

During the current year until 202110, 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 9253.5801 million, 7919.6201 million, 5692.2997 million, 5430.2589 million, 4348.4988 million, and up 19.59%, up 18.08%, up 58.09%, up 10.45%, up 0.82%. And the trade deficits were mainly from NETHERLANDS, GERMANY, BELGIUM, CHINA, ITALY at 32548.4332 million, 30929.2296 million, 24775.5986 million, 15362.5281 million, 11086.5136 million, and up 29.09%, up 22.28%, up 45.21%, down 21.04%, up 19.62%.

Current year until 202110, FRANCE's trade surplus or deficit with top five countries/territories During the current year until 202110,  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 122732.3482 million, 105085.6571 million, 90002.5423 million, 67823.0359 million, 60603.8754 million, which were up 18.69%, up 20.59%, up 20.57%, up 66.06%, up 10.28% comparing with the same period of last year and account for 11.55%, 9.89%, 8.47%, 6.38%, 5.70% of FRANCE's total imports and exports.

During the current year until 202110, 84, 87, 85, 30, 88 were FRANCE's top five traded commodities, with total import and export values of 52115.5476 million, 42462.2163 million, 37021.1179 million, 32322.0842 million, 24272.3723 million. These values correspond to 10.84%, 8.83%, 7.70%, 6.72%, 5.05% of FRANCE's total exports and, respectively, were up 17.15%, up 21.63%, up 16.72%, up 4.04%, up 9.87% comparing to the same period of last year.

During the current year until 202110, 84, 87, 85, 27, 30 were FRANCE's top five traded commodities, with total import values of 70616.8006 million, 62623.4408 million, 52981.4244 million, 52563.8824 million, 28281.7912 million. These values correspond to 12.13%, 10.76%, 9.10%, 9.03%, 4.86% of FRANCE's total exports and, respectively, were up 19.86%, up 19.90%, up 23.42%, up 60.36%, up 18.41% comparing to the same period of last year.

2. Current year until 202110, FRANCE binational trade profile

According to Dalian Infobank, during the current year until 202110, FRANCE-China binational exports and imports of goods amounted to 62092.8486 million and were up 26.72% comparing with the same period of last year. Among these, exports from FRANCE to China were 23365.1602 million and up 58.18%, imports from China to FRANCE were 38727.6884 million and up 13.15%. The total binational trade deficit was 15362.5281 million and down 21.04%.

During the urrent year until 202110, 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 9639.2279 million, 9125.1326 million, 3276.0027 million, 2802.3092 million, 2792.4409 million and makes up 15.52%, 14.70%, 5.28%, 4.51%, 4.50% of the total binational imports and exports. These values were also up 28.94%, up 24.44%, up 350.90%, up 155.82%, up 38.08% comparing to the same period last year.

During the current year until 202110, 88, 84, 42, 33, 30 were the top five traded commodities exported to China from FRANCE, with export values of 3191.5745 million, 2939.8534 million, 2189.2152 million, 1907.2139 million, 1634.9788 million. These values account for 13.66%, 12.58%, 9.37%, 8.16%, 7.00% of FRANCE's total exports and were up 409.71%, up 18.99%, up 311.08%, up 40.48%, up 18.44% comparing to the same period of last year.

During the current year until 202110, 85, 84, 94, 62, 39 were FRANCE's top five traded commodities importing from China , with import values of 8481.7966 million, 6185.2792 million, 2625.9537 million, 2090.0486 million, 1622.3949 million. These values account for 21.90%, 15.97%, 6.78%, 5.40%, 4.19% of FRANCE's total imports and were up 31.39%, up 27.21%, up 40.93%, up 14.87%, up 26.20% comparing with the same period of last year.

3.Analysis of import and export trends

Data Source: Eurostat