1.  Overview the trade of FRANCE in goods current year until 202203

According to Dalian Infobank, in 202203, FRANCE's exports and imports of goods amounted to 123880.5386 million, and were up 7.34% comparing with the same period of last year. Among these, exports were up 0.62% at 52829.6082 million, and imports were up 12.94% at 71050.9305 million. And the corresponding trade deficit was 18221.3223 million and up 75.03%.

During the current year until 202203, FRANCE's total exports and imports of goods were 353765.7226 million and were up 14.02% comparing to the same period of last year. Among these, exports were 154153.1298 million and up 9.25%; imports were 199612.5928 million and up 17.99%. The total trade deficit was 45459.4629 million and up 61.92%.

If considering by country (region), INTRA-EU, GERMANY, UNITED STATES, BELGIUM, CHINA were FRANCE's top five trading partners. During the current year until 202203, FRANCE's imports and exports to five countries/territories were 79226.6100 million, 34505.9853 million, 24329.0266 million, 23324.6511 million, 19480.3312 million. These values correspond to 22.40%, 9.75%, 6.88%, 6.59%, 5.51% of FRANCE's imports and exports, and, respectively, were 0, down 31.30%, up 50.35%, down 17.20%, up 13.88% comparing to the same period of last year.

Current year until 202203, FRANCE and the top five trade partners INTRA-EU, GERMANY, UNITED STATES, ITALY, SPAIN are the top five countries/territories that FRANCE exports to in terms of the total export amount. During the current year until 202203, FRANCE's exports to these five countries/territories were 32946.8100 million, 14464.4988 million, 12193.0090 million, 9202.5054 million, 8348.7584 million. These values correspond to 21.37%, 9.38%, 7.91%, 5.97%, 5.42% of FRANCE's exports and, respectively, were 0, down 29.94%, up 28.59%, down 19.03%, down 21.77% comparing with the same period of last year.

Current year until 202203, FRANCE's exports to top five countries/territories INTRA-EU, GERMANY, BELGIUM, CHINA, UNITED STATES are the top five countries/territories that FRANCE imports from in terms of the total export amount. During the current year until 202203, FRANCE's imports from these five countries/territories were 46279.8000 million, 20041.4865 million, 15385.6275 million, 13599.0471 million, 12136.0177 million. These values correspond to 23.18%, 10.04%, 7.71%, 6.81%, 6.08% of FRANCE's total imports and, respectively, were 0, down 32.25%, down 11.17%, up 22.49%, up 81.14% comparing with the same period of last year.

During the current year until 202203, the trade surplus of FRANCE was mainly from UNITED KINGDOM, SINGAPORE, COUNTRIES AND TERRITORIES NOT SPECIFIED FOR COMMERCIAL OR MILITARY REASONS IN THE FRAMEWORK OF TRADE WITH THIRD COUNTRIES, HONG KONG, UNITED ARAB EMIRATES at 1605.6737 million, 1474.3687 million, 1219.6753 million, 882.6997 million, 732.2889 million, and down 37.87%, down 1.29%, down 35.76%, down 25.50%, up 23.80%. And the trade deficits were mainly from INTRA-EU, CHINA, BELGIUM, NETHERLANDS, GERMANY at 13332.9900 million, 7717.7629 million, 7446.6038 million, 6294.7281 million, 5576.9877 million, and 0, up 51.38%, up 15.04%, down 32.29%, down 37.60%.

Current year until 202203, FRANCE's trade surplus or deficit with top five countries/territories During the current year until 202203,  commodities with hs2 codes, 99, 27, 84, 85, 87, were FRANCE's top five traded commodities. They correspond to the import and export values of 82100.3893 million, 31965.2334 million, 29271.3899 million, 22559.2300 million, 21415.7520 million, which were up 2269.93%, up 88.80%, down 20.57%, down 16.53%, down 38.15% comparing with the same period of last year and account for 23.21%, 9.04%, 8.27%, 6.38%, 6.05% of FRANCE's total imports and exports.

During the current year until 202203, 99, 84, 85, 87, 30 were FRANCE's top five traded commodities, with total import and export values of 35212.6880 million, 12716.2982 million, 9303.1836 million, 8971.0920 million, 7437.2354 million. These values correspond to 22.84%, 8.25%, 6.04%, 5.82%, 4.82% of FRANCE's total exports and, respectively, were up 1090.73%, down 18.40%, down 14.89%, down 37.85%, down 25.90% comparing to the same period of last year.

During the current year until 202203, 99, 27, 84, 85, 87 were FRANCE's top five traded commodities, with total import values of 46887.7013 million, 26547.4683 million, 16555.0917 million, 13256.0464 million, 12444.6600 million. These values correspond to 23.49%, 13.30%, 8.29%, 6.64%, 6.23% of FRANCE's total exports and, respectively, were up 9147.67%, up 96.88%, down 22.16%, down 17.65%, down 38.36% comparing to the same period of last year.

2. Current year until 202203, FRANCE binational trade profile

According to Dalian Infobank, during the current year until 202203, FRANCE-China binational exports and imports of goods amounted to 19480.3312 million and were up 13.88% comparing with the same period of last year. Among these, exports from FRANCE to China were 5881.2842 million and down 2.04%, imports from China to FRANCE were 13599.0471 million and up 22.49%. The total binational trade deficit was 7717.7629 million and up 51.38%.

During the urrent year until 202203, commodities with hs2 code, 85, 84, 94, 42, 62, were binational trade's top five traded commodities. They correspond to import and export values of 3132.2774 million, 3053.2825 million, 1076.0250 million, 919.8636 million, 823.8107 million and makes up 16.08%, 15.67%, 5.52%, 4.72%, 4.23% of the total binational imports and exports. These values were also up 13.93%, up 11.76%, up 32.04%, up 9.94%, up 13.22% comparing to the same period last year.

During the current year until 202203, 84, 42, 33, 88, 30 were the top five traded commodities exported to China from FRANCE, with export values of 807.0716 million, 665.6701 million, 544.4981 million, 399.3733 million, 364.5796 million. These values account for 13.72%, 11.32%, 9.26%, 6.79%, 6.20% of FRANCE's total exports and were down 10.53%, up 0.51%, up 3.93%, up 44.80%, down 17.06% comparing to the same period of last year.

During the current year until 202203, 85, 84, 94, 62, 39 were FRANCE's top five traded commodities importing from China , with import values of 2856.5742 million, 2246.2109 million, 1047.9434 million, 630.8405 million, 555.3963 million. These values account for 21.01%, 16.52%, 7.71%, 4.64%, 4.08% of FRANCE's total imports and were up 18.67%, up 22.75%, up 31.75%, up 11.90%, up 10.75% comparing with the same period of last year.

3.Analysis of import and export trends

Data Source: Eurostat