1.  Overview the trade of FRANCE in goods current year until 202208

According to Dalian Infobank, in 202208, FRANCE's exports and imports of goods amounted to 100633.8877 million, and were up 8.30% comparing with the same period of last year. Among these, exports were down 0.08% at 40911.6333 million, and imports were up 14.91% at 59722.2544 million. And the corresponding trade deficit was 18810.6211 million and up 70.56%.

During the current year until 202208, FRANCE's total exports and imports of goods were 937682.1739 million and were up 11.90% comparing to the same period of last year. Among these, exports were 402686.7015 million and up 6.21%; imports were 534995.4724 million and up 16.60%. The total trade deficit was 132308.7709 million and up 65.99%.

If considering by country (region), GERMANY, BELGIUM, ITALY, UNITED STATES, SPAIN were FRANCE's top five trading partners. During the current year until 202208, FRANCE's imports and exports to five countries/territories were 121582.2815 million, 81892.4774 million, 69218.8941 million, 68851.1297 million, 65184.7916 million. These values correspond to 12.97%, 8.73%, 7.38%, 7.34%, 6.95% of FRANCE's imports and exports, and, respectively, were down 8.07%, up 8.29%, up 0.78%, up 48.17%, up 1.50% comparing to the same period of last year.

Current year until 202208, FRANCE and the top five trade partners GERMANY, ITALY, UNITED STATES, BELGIUM, SPAIN are the top five countries/territories that FRANCE exports to in terms of the total export amount. During the current year until 202208, FRANCE's exports to these five countries/territories were 50455.2229 million, 33173.0657 million, 32739.5350 million, 29062.0981 million, 28245.8223 million. These values correspond to 12.53%, 8.24%, 8.13%, 7.22%, 7.01% of FRANCE's exports and, respectively, were down 5.47%, up 11.11%, up 20.76%, up 1.71%, up 1.70% comparing with the same period of last year.

Current year until 202208, FRANCE's exports to top five countries/territories GERMANY, BELGIUM, NETHERLANDS, SPAIN, UNITED STATES are the top five countries/territories that FRANCE imports from in terms of the total export amount. During the current year until 202208, FRANCE's imports from these five countries/territories were 71127.0586 million, 52830.3792 million, 38100.5671 million, 36938.9694 million, 36111.5947 million. These values correspond to 13.29%, 9.87%, 7.12%, 6.90%, 6.75% of FRANCE's total imports and, respectively, were down 9.83%, up 12.29%, down 5.99%, up 1.34%, up 86.54% comparing with the same period of last year.

During the current year until 202208, the trade surplus of FRANCE was mainly from SINGAPORE, UNITED KINGDOM, HONG KONG, COUNTRIES AND TERRITORIES NOT SPECIFIED FOR COMMERCIAL OR MILITARY REASONS IN THE FRAMEWORK OF TRADE WITH THIRD COUNTRIES, GREECE at 4553.7938 million, 4079.8427 million, 2507.4162 million, 2377.2966 million, 1691.2291 million, and up 1.04%, down 33.53%, down 27.58%, down 48.95%, up 188.95%. And the trade deficits were mainly from BELGIUM, NETHERLANDS, GERMANY, CHINA, INTRA-EU at 23768.2811 million, 22311.1304 million, 20671.8356 million, 19831.0096 million, 11748.4800 million, and up 28.65%, down 12.34%, down 18.95%, up 74.74%, 0.

Current year until 202208, FRANCE's trade surplus or deficit with top five countries/territories During the current year until 202208,  commodities with hs2 codes, 27, 84, 87, 85, 99, were FRANCE's top five traded commodities. They correspond to the import and export values of 111223.9303 million, 91994.8670 million, 72266.6904 million, 68972.8932 million, 65604.7429 million, which were up 119.09%, down 5.64%, down 14.48%, down 2.65%, up 591.40% comparing with the same period of last year and account for 11.86%, 9.81%, 7.71%, 7.36%, 7.00% of FRANCE's total imports and exports.

During the current year until 202208, 84, 87, 85, 99, 30 were FRANCE's top five traded commodities, with total import and export values of 39312.0153 million, 29714.5078 million, 28626.1243 million, 28450.8919 million, 23274.2151 million. These values correspond to 9.76%, 7.38%, 7.11%, 7.07%, 5.78% of FRANCE's total exports and, respectively, were down 4.48%, down 12.27%, down 1.88%, up 269.39%, down 9.73% comparing to the same period of last year.

During the current year until 202208, 27, 84, 87, 85, 99 were FRANCE's top five traded commodities, with total import values of 92300.5327 million, 52682.8516 million, 42552.1826 million, 40346.7689 million, 37153.8511 million. These values correspond to 17.25%, 9.85%, 7.95%, 7.54%, 6.94% of FRANCE's total exports and, respectively, were up 131.33%, down 6.49%, down 15.95%, down 3.18%, up 1979.71% comparing to the same period of last year.

2. Current year until 202208, FRANCE binational trade profile

According to Dalian Infobank, during the current year until 202208, FRANCE-China binational exports and imports of goods amounted to 50196.4954 million and were up 2.08% comparing with the same period of last year. Among these, exports from FRANCE to China were 15182.7429 million and down 19.72%, imports from China to FRANCE were 35013.7525 million and up 15.70%. The total binational trade deficit was 19831.0096 million and up 74.74%.

During the urrent year until 202208, 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 8483.0701 million, 7463.1911 million, 2537.5898 million, 2209.9201 million, 2080.5949 million and makes up 16.90%, 14.87%, 5.06%, 4.40%, 4.14% of the total binational imports and exports. These values were also up 12.53%, up 3.13%, up 18.41%, down 1.02%, down 3.73% comparing to the same period last year.

During the current year until 202208, 84, 42, 33, 88, 30 were the top five traded commodities exported to China from FRANCE, with export values of 1979.0859 million, 1503.2600 million, 1364.4888 million, 1242.5668 million, 1122.2081 million. These values account for 13.04%, 9.90%, 8.99%, 8.18%, 7.39% of FRANCE's total exports and were down 14.75%, down 14.13%, down 11.97%, down 56.94%, down 14.72% comparing to the same period of last year.

During the current year until 202208, 85, 84, 94, 62, 39 were FRANCE's top five traded commodities importing from China , with import values of 7677.1227 million, 5484.1052 million, 2472.2568 million, 1592.9150 million, 1448.3448 million. These values account for 21.93%, 15.66%, 7.06%, 4.55%, 4.14% of FRANCE's total imports and were up 16.62%, up 11.58%, up 18.71%, down 1.36%, up 11.99% comparing with the same period of last year.

3.Analysis of import and export trends

Data Source: Eurostat