1.  Overview the trade of FRANCE in goods current year until 202209

According to Dalian Infobank, in 202209, FRANCE's exports and imports of goods amounted to 119646.3183 million, and were up 7.14% comparing with the same period of last year. Among these, exports were down 0.45% at 50179.8358 million, and imports were up 13.39% at 69466.4825 million. And the corresponding trade deficit was 19286.6467 million and up 77.63%.

During the current year until 202209, FRANCE's total exports and imports of goods were 1063916.0428 million and were up 11.97% comparing to the same period of last year. Among these, exports were 456030.3878 million and up 6.10%; imports were 607885.6550 million and up 16.83%. The total trade deficit was 151855.2672 million and up 67.83%.

If considering by country (region), GERMANY, BELGIUM, UNITED STATES, ITALY, INTRA-EU were FRANCE's top five trading partners. During the current year until 202209, FRANCE's imports and exports to five countries/territories were 136345.7641 million, 92387.7932 million, 78780.5089 million, 76758.7373 million, 73388.6400 million. These values correspond to 12.82%, 8.68%, 7.40%, 7.21%, 6.90% of FRANCE's imports and exports, and, respectively, were down 8.62%, up 6.61%, up 49.02%, down 1.48%, 0 comparing to the same period of last year.

Current year until 202209, 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 202209, FRANCE's exports to these five countries/territories were 56600.7652 million, 36829.0151 million, 36699.8205 million, 32604.9157 million, 31079.7072 million. These values correspond to 12.41%, 8.08%, 8.05%, 7.15%, 6.82% of FRANCE's exports and, respectively, were down 6.28%, up 8.33%, up 20.03%, down 0.48%, down 1.91% comparing with the same period of last year.

Current year until 202209, FRANCE's exports to top five countries/territories GERMANY, BELGIUM, NETHERLANDS, INTRA-EU, UNITED STATES are the top five countries/territories that FRANCE imports from in terms of the total export amount. During the current year until 202209, FRANCE's imports from these five countries/territories were 79744.9990 million, 59782.8775 million, 43265.1994 million, 43181.4400 million, 42080.6884 million. These values correspond to 13.12%, 9.83%, 7.12%, 7.10%, 6.92% of FRANCE's total imports and, respectively, were down 10.22%, up 10.92%, down 5.96%, 0, up 88.78% comparing with the same period of last year.

During the current year until 202209, 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 5094.2626 million, 4044.9082 million, 2957.6765 million, 2638.1806 million, 1843.2490 million, and up 3.59%, down 42.54%, down 26.34%, down 45.93%, up 165.87%. And the trade deficits were mainly from BELGIUM, NETHERLANDS, GERMANY, CHINA, INTRA-EU at 27177.9618 million, 25714.0564 million, 23144.2338 million, 22381.1394 million, 12974.2400 million, and up 28.57%, down 10.78%, down 18.60%, up 67.41%, 0.

Current year until 202209, FRANCE's trade surplus or deficit with top five countries/territories During the current year until 202209,  commodities with hs2 codes, 27, 84, 99, 87, 85, were FRANCE's top five traded commodities. They correspond to the import and export values of 129632.4443 million, 103308.0764 million, 80836.2218 million, 79657.5237 million, 78016.0409 million, which were up 120.22%, down 6.44%, up 651.52%, down 16.06%, down 2.74% comparing with the same period of last year and account for 12.18%, 9.71%, 7.60%, 7.49%, 7.33% of FRANCE's total imports and exports.

During the current year until 202209, 84, 99, 87, 85, 30 were FRANCE's top five traded commodities, with total import and export values of 44203.1922 million, 35593.6369 million, 32674.3250 million, 32375.3056 million, 26326.2546 million. These values correspond to 9.69%, 7.81%, 7.16%, 7.10%, 5.77% of FRANCE's total exports and, respectively, were down 5.48%, up 321.41%, down 14.40%, down 2.37%, down 9.58% comparing to the same period of last year.

During the current year until 202209, 27, 84, 87, 85, 99 were FRANCE's top five traded commodities, with total import values of 107704.0333 million, 59104.8841 million, 46983.1987 million, 45640.7353 million, 45242.5849 million. These values correspond to 17.72%, 9.72%, 7.73%, 7.51%, 7.44% of FRANCE's total exports and, respectively, were up 134.21%, down 7.15%, down 17.18%, down 3.00%, up 1858.60% comparing to the same period of last year.

2. Current year until 202209, FRANCE binational trade profile

According to Dalian Infobank, during the current year until 202209, FRANCE-China binational exports and imports of goods amounted to 57141.5995 million and were up 2.66% comparing with the same period of last year. Among these, exports from FRANCE to China were 17380.2301 million and down 17.80%, imports from China to FRANCE were 39761.3694 million and up 15.20%. The total binational trade deficit was 22381.1394 million and up 67.41%.

During the urrent year until 202209, 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 9650.8360 million, 8416.7229 million, 2795.1818 million, 2482.7550 million, 2397.1897 million and makes up 16.89%, 14.73%, 4.89%, 4.34%, 4.20% of the total binational imports and exports. These values were also up 12.30%, up 1.98%, up 15.33%, down 1.73%, down 3.45% comparing to the same period last year.

During the current year until 202209, 84, 42, 88, 33, 30 were the top five traded commodities exported to China from FRANCE, with export values of 2234.5181 million, 1691.0828 million, 1667.4199 million, 1526.6806 million, 1245.4841 million. These values account for 12.86%, 9.73%, 9.59%, 8.78%, 7.17% of FRANCE's total exports and were down 17.14%, down 14.44%, down 44.78%, down 12.45%, down 16.19% comparing to the same period of last year.

During the current year until 202209, 85, 84, 94, 62, 39 were FRANCE's top five traded commodities importing from China , with import values of 8747.2365 million, 6182.2048 million, 2721.3793 million, 1854.8446 million, 1624.4500 million. These values account for 22.00%, 15.55%, 6.84%, 4.66%, 4.09% of FRANCE's total imports and were up 16.21%, up 11.26%, up 15.56%, down 1.04%, up 11.49% comparing with the same period of last year.

3.Analysis of import and export trends

Data Source: Eurostat