1.  Overview the trade of FRANCE in goods current year until 202204

According to Dalian Infobank, in 202204, FRANCE's exports and imports of goods amounted to 109325.0948 million, and were up 0.77% comparing with the same period of last year. Among these, exports were down 5.27% at 46776.5326 million, and imports were up 5.82% at 62548.5621 million. And the corresponding trade deficit was 15772.0295 million and up 62.10%.

During the current year until 202204, FRANCE's total exports and imports of goods were 469899.9472 million and were up 12.21% comparing to the same period of last year. Among these, exports were 204377.4407 million and up 7.30%; imports were 265522.5065 million and up 16.31%. The total trade deficit was 61145.0657 million and up 61.74%.

If considering by country (region), INTRA-EU, GERMANY, BELGIUM, UNITED STATES, ITALY were FRANCE's top five trading partners. During the current year until 202204, FRANCE's imports and exports to five countries/territories were 68051.5100 million, 53669.4974 million, 36467.6065 million, 34249.5336 million, 29270.6824 million. These values correspond to 14.48%, 11.42%, 7.76%, 7.29%, 6.23% of FRANCE's imports and exports, and, respectively, were 0, down 19.75%, down 2.63%, up 53.66%, down 14.92% comparing to the same period of last year.

Current year until 202204, 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 202204, FRANCE's exports to these five countries/territories were 27696.6400 million, 22385.5891 million, 17140.9413 million, 14161.9470 million, 13031.2271 million. These values correspond to 13.55%, 10.95%, 8.39%, 6.93%, 6.38% of FRANCE's exports and, respectively, were 0, down 17.27%, up 32.96%, down 6.28%, down 7.79% comparing with the same period of last year.

Current year until 202204, 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 202204, FRANCE's imports from these five countries/territories were 40354.8700 million, 31283.9082 million, 23647.2288 million, 17464.9379 million, 17108.5923 million. These values correspond to 15.20%, 11.78%, 8.91%, 6.58%, 6.44% of FRANCE's total imports and, respectively, were 0, down 21.44%, up 2.49%, up 18.72%, up 82.05% comparing with the same period of last year.

During the current year until 202204, 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 2515.0430 million, 2074.1081 million, 1535.1619 million, 1203.0816 million, 921.1169 million, and down 25.05%, down 14.94%, down 39.92%, down 30.61%, up 4.16%. And the trade deficits were mainly from INTRA-EU, BELGIUM, CHINA, NETHERLANDS, GERMANY at 12658.2300 million, 10826.8512 million, 9955.8459 million, 9828.8925 million, 8898.3191 million, and 0, up 24.54%, up 75.55%, down 21.69%, down 30.28%.

Current year until 202204, FRANCE's trade surplus or deficit with top five countries/territories During the current year until 202204,  commodities with hs2 codes, 99, 27, 84, 87, 85, were FRANCE's top five traded commodities. They correspond to the import and export values of 71732.5046 million, 46862.7631 million, 42760.9396 million, 32236.0413 million, 31965.9544 million, which were up 1321.97%, up 103.69%, down 13.43%, down 30.21%, down 11.12% comparing with the same period of last year and account for 15.27%, 9.97%, 9.10%, 6.86%, 6.80% of FRANCE's total imports and exports.

During the current year until 202204, 99, 84, 87, 85, 30 were FRANCE's top five traded commodities, with total import and export values of 30578.0316 million, 18291.1685 million, 13401.8326 million, 13202.2295 million, 11005.3296 million. These values correspond to 14.96%, 8.95%, 6.56%, 6.46%, 5.38% of FRANCE's total exports and, respectively, were up 629.34%, down 11.68%, down 29.20%, down 9.71%, down 16.20% comparing to the same period of last year.

During the current year until 202204, 99, 27, 84, 87, 85 were FRANCE's top five traded commodities, with total import values of 41154.4730 million, 38903.2793 million, 24469.7711 million, 18834.2087 million, 18763.7249 million. These values correspond to 15.50%, 14.65%, 9.22%, 7.09%, 7.07% of FRANCE's total exports and, respectively, were up 4730.02%, up 111.73%, down 14.69%, down 30.91%, down 12.08% comparing to the same period of last year.

2. Current year until 202204, FRANCE binational trade profile

According to Dalian Infobank, during the current year until 202204, FRANCE-China binational exports and imports of goods amounted to 24974.0300 million and were up 5.15% comparing with the same period of last year. Among these, exports from FRANCE to China were 7509.0920 million and down 16.94%, imports from China to FRANCE were 17464.9379 million and up 18.72%. The total binational trade deficit was 9955.8459 million and up 75.55%.

During the urrent year until 202204, 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 4133.4591 million, 3928.5840 million, 1359.6051 million, 1084.1600 million, 993.2781 million and makes up 16.55%, 15.73%, 5.44%, 4.34%, 3.98% of the total binational imports and exports. These values were also up 13.41%, up 7.82%, up 26.33%, down 2.25%, up 3.63% comparing to the same period last year.

During the current year until 202204, 84, 42, 33, 30, 88 were the top five traded commodities exported to China from FRANCE, with export values of 1050.7904 million, 774.3349 million, 668.7013 million, 530.3776 million, 528.7606 million. These values account for 13.99%, 10.31%, 8.91%, 7.06%, 7.04% of FRANCE's total exports and were down 12.12%, down 12.45%, down 4.10%, down 18.14%, down 56.86% comparing to the same period of last year.

During the current year until 202204, 85, 84, 94, 62, 39 were FRANCE's top five traded commodities importing from China , with import values of 3776.5974 million, 2877.7937 million, 1328.9351 million, 760.2039 million, 721.0418 million. These values account for 21.62%, 16.48%, 7.61%, 4.35%, 4.13% of FRANCE's total imports and were up 18.37%, up 17.55%, up 26.64%, up 6.26%, up 10.18% comparing with the same period of last year.

3.Analysis of import and export trends

Data Source: Eurostat