1.  Overview the trade of FRANCE in goods current year until 202112

According to Dalian Infobank, in 202112, FRANCE's exports and imports of goods amounted to 117598.8595 million, and were up 17.21% comparing with the same period of last year. Among these, exports were up 9.56% at 51767.9108 million, and imports were up 24.02% at 65830.9487 million. And the corresponding trade deficit was 14063.0379 million and up 141.17%.

During the current year until 202112, FRANCE's total exports and imports of goods were 1298992.8725 million and were up 21.41% comparing to the same period of last year. Among these, exports were 584928.8699 million and up 19.71%; imports were 714064.0025 million and up 22.84%. The total trade deficit was 129135.1326 million and up 39.36%.

If considering by country (region), GERMANY, BELGIUM, ITALY, SPAIN, NETHERLANDS were FRANCE's top five trading partners. During the current year until 202112, FRANCE's imports and exports to five countries/territories were 201995.6534 million, 120912.8201 million, 106045.0869 million, 99566.7233 million, 87262.9990 million. These values correspond to 15.55%, 9.31%, 8.16%, 7.66%, 6.72% of FRANCE's imports and exports, and, respectively, were up 18.46%, up 31.47%, up 23.85%, up 22.17%, up 27.33% comparing to the same period of last year.

Current year until 202112, 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 202112, FRANCE's exports to these five countries/territories were 81846.4438 million, 46423.6510 million, 44658.9786 million, 43480.3603 million, 41171.6509 million. These values correspond to 13.99%, 7.94%, 7.63%, 7.43%, 7.04% of FRANCE's exports and, respectively, were up 17.58%, up 25.35%, up 24.03%, up 22.34%, up 11.21% comparing with the same period of last year.

Current year until 202112, 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 202112, FRANCE's imports from these five countries/territories were 120149.2096 million, 76253.8416 million, 63625.8701 million, 59621.4359 million, 56086.3630 million. These values correspond to 16.83%, 10.68%, 8.91%, 8.35%, 7.85% of FRANCE's total imports and, respectively, were up 19.06%, up 36.26%, up 27.03%, up 22.71%, up 22.05% comparing with the same period of last year.

During the current year until 202112, 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 10277.0247 million, 9887.1252 million, 7030.8951 million, 6513.2111 million, 5232.7486 million, and up 8.13%, up 9.70%, up 59.73%, up 8.51%, down 2.54%. And the trade deficits were mainly from NETHERLANDS, GERMANY, BELGIUM, CHINA, ITALY at 39988.7413 million, 38302.7658 million, 31594.8630 million, 19777.9481 million, 13197.7848 million, and up 26.40%, up 22.34%, up 58.34%, down 5.93%, up 14.24%.

Current year until 202112, FRANCE's trade surplus or deficit with top five countries/territories During the current year until 202112,  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 148327.0840 million, 127487.9444 million, 110270.8442 million, 90440.6965 million, 73114.2577 million, which were up 16.24%, up 15.43%, up 18.07%, up 83.77%, up 9.71% comparing with the same period of last year and account for 11.42%, 9.81%, 8.49%, 6.96%, 5.63% of FRANCE's total imports and exports.

During the current year until 202112, 84, 87, 85, 30, 88 were FRANCE's top five traded commodities, with total import and export values of 62832.9455 million, 51174.2983 million, 45288.1959 million, 39057.4638 million, 30990.5572 million. These values correspond to 10.74%, 8.75%, 7.74%, 6.68%, 5.30% of FRANCE's total exports and, respectively, were up 14.02%, up 14.67%, up 15.83%, up 3.06%, up 6.08% comparing to the same period of last year.

During the current year until 202112, 84, 87, 27, 85, 30 were FRANCE's top five traded commodities, with total import values of 85494.1385 million, 76313.6460 million, 70695.9784 million, 64982.6484 million, 34056.7939 million. These values correspond to 11.97%, 10.69%, 9.90%, 9.10%, 4.77% of FRANCE's total exports and, respectively, were up 17.93%, up 15.95%, up 80.29%, up 19.69%, up 18.46% comparing to the same period of last year.

2. Current year until 202112, FRANCE binational trade profile

According to Dalian Infobank, during the current year until 202112, FRANCE-China binational exports and imports of goods amounted to 76384.5115 million and were up 24.84% comparing with the same period of last year. Among these, exports from FRANCE to China were 28303.2817 million and up 40.96%, imports from China to FRANCE were 48081.2298 million and up 16.97%. The total binational trade deficit was 19777.9481 million and down 5.93%.

During the urrent year until 202112, commodities with hs2 code, 85, 84, 88, 94, 42, were binational trade's top five traded commodities. They correspond to import and export values of 11976.6499 million, 11178.4692 million, 4271.1973 million, 3412.4729 million, 3407.4617 million and makes up 15.68%, 14.63%, 5.59%, 4.47%, 4.46% of the total binational imports and exports. These values were also up 29.61%, up 23.01%, up 94.27%, up 43.10%, up 117.58% comparing to the same period last year.

During the current year until 202112, 88, 84, 42, 33, 30 were the top five traded commodities exported to China from FRANCE, with export values of 4155.2572 million, 3575.5345 million, 2633.1639 million, 2219.4925 million, 1870.3027 million. These values account for 14.68%, 12.63%, 9.30%, 7.84%, 6.61% of FRANCE's total exports and were up 108.16%, up 12.25%, up 189.41%, up 31.46%, up 10.88% comparing to the same period of last year.

During the current year until 202112, 85, 84, 94, 62, 39 were FRANCE's top five traded commodities importing from China , with import values of 10621.8408 million, 7602.9347 million, 3314.4930 million, 2515.4628 million, 1986.8129 million. These values account for 22.09%, 15.81%, 6.89%, 5.23%, 4.13% of FRANCE's total imports and were up 33.02%, up 28.82%, up 45.55%, up 16.79%, up 27.93% comparing with the same period of last year.

3.Analysis of import and export trends

Data Source: Eurostat