1.  Overview the trade of FRANCE in goods current year until 202210

According to Dalian Infobank, in 202210, FRANCE's exports and imports of goods amounted to 110111.3860 million, and were down 3.66% comparing with the same period of last year. Among these, exports were down 7.06% at 48151.6904 million, and imports were down 0.85% at 61959.6956 million. And the corresponding trade deficit was 13808.0052 million and up 29.27%.

During the current year until 202210, FRANCE's total exports and imports of goods were 1179104.5475 million and were up 10.77% comparing to the same period of last year. Among these, exports were 506853.8826 million and up 5.23%; imports were 672250.6649 million and up 15.35%. The total trade deficit was 165396.7823 million and up 63.50%.

If considering by country (region), GERMANY, BELGIUM, UNITED STATES, ITALY, SPAIN were FRANCE's top five trading partners. During the current year until 202210, FRANCE's imports and exports to five countries/territories were 154052.2674 million, 104650.9013 million, 87237.4616 million, 86992.5778 million, 81712.1128 million. These values correspond to 13.07%, 8.88%, 7.40%, 7.38%, 6.93% of FRANCE's imports and exports, and, respectively, were down 7.54%, up 7.11%, up 46.57%, down 0.15%, up 0.18% comparing to the same period of last year.

Current year until 202210, 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 202210, FRANCE's exports to these five countries/territories were 64017.2906 million, 42063.7464 million, 40706.4181 million, 36717.1855 million, 35258.4235 million. These values correspond to 12.63%, 8.30%, 8.03%, 7.24%, 6.96% of FRANCE's exports and, respectively, were down 5.61%, up 10.37%, up 19.10%, up 0.54%, down 0.84% comparing with the same period of last year.

Current year until 202210, FRANCE's exports to top five countries/territories GERMANY, BELGIUM, NETHERLANDS, UNITED STATES, SPAIN are the top five countries/territories that FRANCE imports from in terms of the total export amount. During the current year until 202210, FRANCE's imports from these five countries/territories were 90034.9768 million, 67933.7158 million, 48973.0200 million, 46531.0435 million, 46453.6893 million. These values correspond to 13.39%, 10.11%, 7.28%, 6.92%, 6.91% of FRANCE's total imports and, respectively, were down 8.87%, up 11.02%, down 5.07%, up 83.60%, up 0.97% comparing with the same period of last year.

During the current year until 202210, 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 5694.2676 million, 4456.0903 million, 3550.9505 million, 3019.3808 million, 2091.8307 million, and up 4.74%, down 44.01%, down 18.71%, down 46.84%, up 153.16%. And the trade deficits were mainly from BELGIUM, NETHERLANDS, GERMANY, CHINA, INTRA-EU at 31216.5303 million, 29435.2645 million, 26017.6862 million, 24313.8185 million, 13166.8400 million, and up 26.55%, down 9.08%, down 16.01%, up 58.80%, 0.

Current year until 202210, FRANCE's trade surplus or deficit with top five countries/territories During the current year until 202210,  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 144209.1755 million, 116279.5923 million, 90690.4305 million, 87895.7866 million, 75900.1307 million, which were up 109.90%, down 5.34%, down 13.86%, down 2.19%, up 516.32% comparing with the same period of last year and account for 12.23%, 9.86%, 7.69%, 7.45%, 6.44% of FRANCE's total imports and exports.

During the current year until 202210, 84, 87, 85, 99, 30 were FRANCE's top five traded commodities, with total import and export values of 49988.3326 million, 37218.6002 million, 36436.2042 million, 33239.6482 million, 29434.0009 million. These values correspond to 9.86%, 7.34%, 7.19%, 6.56%, 5.81% of FRANCE's total exports and, respectively, were down 4.25%, down 12.48%, down 1.46%, up 238.71%, down 8.90% comparing to the same period of last year.

During the current year until 202210, 27, 84, 87, 85, 99 were FRANCE's top five traded commodities, with total import values of 119421.3628 million, 66291.2597 million, 53471.8303 million, 51459.5824 million, 42660.4826 million. These values correspond to 17.76%, 9.86%, 7.95%, 7.65%, 6.35% of FRANCE's total exports and, respectively, were up 123.59%, down 6.15%, down 14.80%, down 2.70%, up 1605.35% comparing to the same period of last year.

2. Current year until 202210, FRANCE binational trade profile

According to Dalian Infobank, during the current year until 202210, FRANCE-China binational exports and imports of goods amounted to 63123.7331 million and were up 1.51% comparing with the same period of last year. Among these, exports from FRANCE to China were 19404.9573 million and down 17.20%, imports from China to FRANCE were 43718.7758 million and up 12.83%. The total binational trade deficit was 24313.8185 million and up 58.80%.

During the urrent year until 202210, 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 10759.2940 million, 9211.0392 million, 3028.3488 million, 2725.1142 million, 2678.7822 million and makes up 17.04%, 14.59%, 4.80%, 4.32%, 4.24% of the total binational imports and exports. These values were also up 11.48%, up 0.55%, up 11.96%, down 2.76%, down 4.05% comparing to the same period last year.

During the current year until 202210, 84, 88, 42, 33, 30 were the top five traded commodities exported to China from FRANCE, with export values of 2429.7157 million, 1872.0205 million, 1860.1793 million, 1690.9238 million, 1432.6664 million. These values account for 12.52%, 9.65%, 9.59%, 8.71%, 7.38% of FRANCE's total exports and were down 18.14%, down 41.35%, down 15.03%, down 11.34%, down 12.37% comparing to the same period of last year.

During the current year until 202210, 85, 84, 94, 62, 61 were FRANCE's top five traded commodities importing from China , with import values of 9752.4437 million, 6781.3235 million, 2946.7602 million, 2064.6480 million, 1804.3959 million. These values account for 22.31%, 15.51%, 6.74%, 4.72%, 4.13% of FRANCE's total imports and were up 14.90%, up 9.51%, up 12.24%, down 1.23%, up 20.12% comparing with the same period of last year.

3.Analysis of import and export trends

Data Source: Eurostat