1.  Overview the trade of FRANCE in goods current year until 202205

According to Dalian Infobank, in 202205, FRANCE's exports and imports of goods amounted to 115022.5583 million, and were up 11.62% comparing with the same period of last year. Among these, exports were up 6.32% at 48625.2257 million, and imports were up 15.85% at 66397.3326 million. And the corresponding trade deficit was 17772.1069 million and up 53.49%.

During the current year until 202205, FRANCE's total exports and imports of goods were 591400.3846 million and were up 13.34% comparing to the same period of last year. Among these, exports were 256120.2751 million and up 8.43%; imports were 335280.1095 million and up 17.40%. The total trade deficit was 79159.8345 million and up 60.29%.

If considering by country (region), INTRA-EU, GERMANY, BELGIUM, UNITED STATES, ITALY were FRANCE's top five trading partners. During the current year until 202205, FRANCE's imports and exports to five countries/territories were 73100.8900 million, 69959.2095 million, 48066.1722 million, 42884.3496 million, 39099.9606 million. These values correspond to 12.36%, 11.83%, 8.13%, 7.25%, 6.61% of FRANCE's imports and exports, and, respectively, were 0, down 15.82%, up 3.40%, up 52.52%, down 9.49% comparing to the same period of last year.

Current year until 202205, FRANCE and the top five trade partners INTRA-EU, GERMANY, UNITED STATES, ITALY, BELGIUM are the top five countries/territories that FRANCE exports to in terms of the total export amount. During the current year until 202205, FRANCE's exports to these five countries/territories were 29938.5700 million, 29032.5590 million, 21214.4667 million, 18980.5961 million, 16611.0032 million. These values correspond to 11.69%, 11.34%, 8.28%, 7.41%, 6.49% of FRANCE's exports and, respectively, were 0, down 12.92%, up 30.24%, up 0.80%, down 6.66% comparing with the same period of last year.

Current year until 202205, FRANCE's exports to top five countries/territories INTRA-EU, GERMANY, BELGIUM, NETHERLANDS, UNITED STATES are the top five countries/territories that FRANCE imports from in terms of the total export amount. During the current year until 202205, FRANCE's imports from these five countries/territories were 43162.3200 million, 40926.6505 million, 31455.1690 million, 21696.1403 million, 21669.8829 million. These values correspond to 12.87%, 12.21%, 9.38%, 6.47%, 6.46% of FRANCE's total imports and, respectively, were 0, down 17.76%, up 9.64%, down 12.80%, up 83.19% comparing with the same period of last year.

During the current year until 202205, 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 3297.0565 million, 2644.0533 million, 1788.0562 million, 1552.6330 million, 1149.3493 million, and down 14.91%, down 8.57%, down 42.10%, down 25.63%, down 3.97%. And the trade deficits were mainly from BELGIUM, INTRA-EU, NETHERLANDS, CHINA, GERMANY at 14844.1658 million, 13223.7500 million, 12738.3883 million, 12387.5496 million, 11894.0915 million, and up 36.27%, 0, down 18.36%, up 73.73%, down 27.60%.

Current year until 202205, FRANCE's trade surplus or deficit with top five countries/territories During the current year until 202205,  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 77522.1901 million, 62435.3706 million, 54681.6945 million, 41649.2946 million, 40873.1024 million, which were up 1184.04%, up 114.63%, down 11.08%, down 26.57%, down 8.53% comparing with the same period of last year and account for 13.11%, 10.56%, 9.25%, 7.04%, 6.91% of FRANCE's total imports and exports.

During the current year until 202205, 99, 84, 87, 85, 30 were FRANCE's top five traded commodities, with total import and export values of 33337.0949 million, 23220.4334 million, 17140.4597 million, 16886.2966 million, 14074.3130 million. These values correspond to 13.02%, 9.07%, 6.69%, 6.59%, 5.50% of FRANCE's total exports and, respectively, were up 560.41%, down 9.34%, down 25.54%, down 7.30%, down 11.93% comparing to the same period of last year.

During the current year until 202205, 27, 99, 84, 87, 85 were FRANCE's top five traded commodities, with total import values of 51693.8791 million, 44185.0952 million, 31461.2611 million, 24508.8348 million, 23986.8058 million. These values correspond to 15.42%, 13.18%, 9.38%, 7.31%, 7.15% of FRANCE's total exports and, respectively, were up 122.26%, up 4365.64%, down 12.33%, down 27.27%, down 9.38% comparing to the same period of last year.

2. Current year until 202205, FRANCE binational trade profile

According to Dalian Infobank, during the current year until 202205, FRANCE-China binational exports and imports of goods amounted to 30877.2911 million and were up 2.89% comparing with the same period of last year. Among these, exports from FRANCE to China were 9244.8708 million and down 19.18%, imports from China to FRANCE were 21632.4203 million and up 16.49%. The total binational trade deficit was 12387.5496 million and up 73.73%.

During the urrent year until 202205, 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 5171.0401 million, 4826.5974 million, 1682.6747 million, 1308.2748 million, 1182.8677 million and makes up 16.75%, 15.63%, 5.45%, 4.24%, 3.83% of the total binational imports and exports. These values were also up 12.32%, up 6.34%, up 26.60%, down 6.15%, down 5.44% comparing to the same period last year.

During the current year until 202205, 84, 42, 33, 30, 22 were the top five traded commodities exported to China from FRANCE, with export values of 1260.8244 million, 914.9139 million, 848.4099 million, 720.8244 million, 571.1862 million. These values account for 13.64%, 9.90%, 9.18%, 7.80%, 6.18% of FRANCE's total exports and were down 13.18%, down 17.29%, down 2.74%, down 10.06%, down 8.09% comparing to the same period of last year.

During the current year until 202205, 85, 84, 94, 62, 39 were FRANCE's top five traded commodities importing from China , with import values of 4713.8899 million, 3565.7730 million, 1644.6685 million, 900.1830 million, 894.9657 million. These values account for 21.79%, 16.48%, 7.60%, 4.16%, 4.14% of FRANCE's total imports and were up 17.38%, up 15.52%, up 27.07%, down 2.97%, up 8.71% comparing with the same period of last year.

3.Analysis of import and export trends

Data Source: Eurostat