1.  Overview the trade of FRANCE in goods current year until 202211

According to Dalian Infobank, in 202211, FRANCE's exports and imports of goods amounted to 118149.1385 million, and were up 0.23% comparing with the same period of last year. Among these, exports were down 3.20% at 50046.2960 million, and imports were up 2.91% at 68102.8425 million. And the corresponding trade deficit was 18056.5465 million and up 24.73%.

During the current year until 202211, FRANCE's total exports and imports of goods were 1302616.1518 million and were up 10.17% comparing to the same period of last year. Among these, exports were 559804.3015 million and up 4.96%; imports were 742811.8503 million and up 14.46%. The total trade deficit was 183007.5489 million and up 58.26%.

If considering by country (region), GERMANY, BELGIUM, ITALY, UNITED STATES, SPAIN were FRANCE's top five trading partners. During the current year until 202211, FRANCE's imports and exports to five countries/territories were 170463.1620 million, 115524.9232 million, 96195.0346 million, 95911.2097 million, 90091.9835 million. These values correspond to 13.09%, 8.87%, 7.38%, 7.36%, 6.92% of FRANCE's imports and exports, and, respectively, were down 7.68%, up 5.81%, down 0.52%, up 45.85%, down 0.91% comparing to the same period of last year.

Current year until 202211, 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 202211, FRANCE's exports to these five countries/territories were 70851.8340 million, 46311.6350 million, 44674.4728 million, 40410.6440 million, 39022.7842 million. These values correspond to 12.66%, 8.27%, 7.98%, 7.22%, 6.97% of FRANCE's exports and, respectively, were down 5.60%, up 8.93%, up 18.88%, down 0.43%, down 2.14% comparing with the same period of last year.

Current year until 202211, 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 202211, FRANCE's imports from these five countries/territories were 99611.3280 million, 75114.2793 million, 54934.9068 million, 51236.7369 million, 51069.1993 million. These values correspond to 13.41%, 10.11%, 7.40%, 6.90%, 6.88% of FRANCE's total imports and, respectively, were down 9.11%, up 9.50%, down 4.17%, up 81.82%, up 0.04% comparing with the same period of last year.

During the current year until 202211, 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 6403.5757 million, 5333.0371 million, 3916.4833 million, 3323.1847 million, 2189.2979 million, and up 8.09%, down 39.19%, down 18.80%, down 47.89%, up 125.67%. And the trade deficits were mainly from BELGIUM, NETHERLANDS, GERMANY, CHINA, INTRA-EU at 34703.6353 million, 33459.0936 million, 28759.4940 million, 26218.3844 million, 14587.4300 million, and up 23.88%, down 6.79%, down 16.73%, up 51.22%, 0.

Current year until 202211, FRANCE's trade surplus or deficit with top five countries/territories During the current year until 202211,  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 159008.0237 million, 128892.4815 million, 101431.6792 million, 97834.7770 million, 82831.4820 million, which were up 98.65%, down 4.86%, down 12.82%, down 2.14%, up 499.31% comparing with the same period of last year and account for 12.21%, 9.89%, 7.79%, 7.51%, 6.36% of FRANCE's total imports and exports.

During the current year until 202211, 84, 87, 85, 99, 30 were FRANCE's top five traded commodities, with total import and export values of 55474.9405 million, 41639.9667 million, 40321.8768 million, 36258.4725 million, 32255.2676 million. These values correspond to 9.91%, 7.44%, 7.20%, 6.48%, 5.76% of FRANCE's total exports and, respectively, were down 3.50%, down 11.35%, down 1.96%, up 227.36%, down 9.94% comparing to the same period of last year.

During the current year until 202211, 27, 84, 87, 85, 99 were FRANCE's top five traded commodities, with total import values of 131444.9248 million, 73417.5410 million, 59791.7124 million, 57512.9002 million, 46573.0095 million. These values correspond to 17.70%, 9.88%, 8.05%, 7.74%, 6.27% of FRANCE's total exports and, respectively, were up 109.88%, down 5.87%, down 13.81%, down 2.26%, up 1596.66% comparing to the same period of last year.

2. Current year until 202211, FRANCE binational trade profile

According to Dalian Infobank, during the current year until 202211, FRANCE-China binational exports and imports of goods amounted to 69475.2448 million and were up 0.94% comparing with the same period of last year. Among these, exports from FRANCE to China were 21628.4302 million and down 15.99%, imports from China to FRANCE were 47846.8146 million and up 11.06%. The total binational trade deficit was 26218.3844 million and up 51.22%.

During the urrent year until 202211, 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 11948.7341 million, 10092.2399 million, 3278.7898 million, 2990.9906 million, 2934.2045 million and makes up 17.20%, 14.53%, 4.72%, 4.31%, 4.22% of the total binational imports and exports. These values were also up 10.57%, down 0.39%, up 8.69%, down 2.84%, down 4.80% comparing to the same period last year.

During the current year until 202211, 84, 88, 42, 33, 30 were the top five traded commodities exported to China from FRANCE, with export values of 2677.4736 million, 2310.4455 million, 2036.7992 million, 1843.4418 million, 1586.5328 million. These values account for 12.38%, 10.68%, 9.42%, 8.52%, 7.34% of FRANCE's total exports and were down 18.12%, down 35.27%, down 14.83%, down 10.99%, down 9.35% comparing to the same period of last year.

During the current year until 202211, 85, 84, 94, 62, 61 were FRANCE's top five traded commodities importing from China , with import values of 10846.4995 million, 7414.7663 million, 3189.0680 million, 2246.7945 million, 1980.4203 million. These values account for 22.67%, 15.50%, 6.67%, 4.70%, 4.14% of FRANCE's total imports and were up 13.57%, up 8.06%, up 8.90%, down 2.39%, up 15.20% comparing with the same period of last year.

3.Analysis of import and export trends

Data Source: Eurostat