1.  Overview the trade of FRANCE in goods current year until 202212

According to Dalian Infobank, in 202212, FRANCE's exports and imports of goods amounted to 122074.3675 million, and were up 3.64% comparing with the same period of last year. Among these, exports were up 0.97% at 52180.2240 million, and imports were up 5.73% at 69894.1435 million. And the corresponding trade deficit was 17713.9195 million and up 22.81%.

During the current year until 202212, FRANCE's total exports and imports of goods were 1430618.8406 million and were up 10.04% comparing to the same period of last year. Among these, exports were 615081.0687 million and up 5.14%; imports were 815537.7719 million and up 14.05%. The total trade deficit was 200456.7032 million and up 54.12%.

If considering by country (region), GERMANY, BELGIUM, ITALY, UNITED STATES, SPAIN were FRANCE's top five trading partners. During the current year until 202212, FRANCE's imports and exports to five countries/territories were 187963.9445 million, 127574.5656 million, 106175.0039 million, 105214.3808 million, 99492.2011 million. These values correspond to 13.14%, 8.92%, 7.42%, 7.35%, 6.95% of FRANCE's imports and exports, and, respectively, were down 6.62%, up 5.56%, up 0.46%, up 45.03%, up 0.18% comparing to the same period of last year.

Current year until 202212, 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 202212, FRANCE's exports to these five countries/territories were 78093.3503 million, 51017.8029 million, 49065.7696 million, 44771.9359 million, 43018.2159 million. These values correspond to 12.70%, 8.29%, 7.98%, 7.28%, 6.99% of FRANCE's exports and, respectively, were down 4.19%, up 9.84%, up 19.16%, up 0.17%, down 1.03% comparing with the same period of last year.

Current year until 202212, 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 202212, FRANCE's imports from these five countries/territories were 109870.5941 million, 82802.6297 million, 61098.4209 million, 56473.9852 million, 56148.6112 million. These values correspond to 13.47%, 10.15%, 7.49%, 6.92%, 6.88% of FRANCE's total imports and, respectively, were down 8.28%, up 8.72%, down 3.57%, up 1.13%, up 79.00% comparing with the same period of last year.

During the current year until 202212, 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 7030.8701 million, 6006.2650 million, 4462.7269 million, 3510.7770 million, 2334.2203 million, and up 7.93%, down 37.36%, down 14.99%, down 49.85%, up 99.64%. And the trade deficits were mainly from BELGIUM, NETHERLANDS, GERMANY, CHINA, INTRA-EU at 38030.6938 million, 37451.1790 million, 31777.2438 million, 26689.5432 million, 17577.7400 million, and up 20.88%, down 5.71%, down 16.98%, up 35.24%, 0.

Current year until 202212, FRANCE's trade surplus or deficit with top five countries/territories During the current year until 202212,  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 175681.8864 million, 142261.7764 million, 113802.0217 million, 107926.7284 million, 85190.4708 million, which were up 90.97%, down 4.09%, down 10.91%, down 1.88%, up 458.64% comparing with the same period of last year and account for 12.28%, 9.94%, 7.95%, 7.54%, 5.95% of FRANCE's total imports and exports.

During the current year until 202212, 84, 87, 85, 99, 30 were FRANCE's top five traded commodities, with total import and export values of 61471.9485 million, 46532.1696 million, 44572.9044 million, 36040.9638 million, 35921.1911 million. These values correspond to 9.99%, 7.57%, 7.25%, 5.86%, 5.84% of FRANCE's total exports and, respectively, were down 2.26%, down 9.20%, down 1.33%, up 198.93%, down 7.98% comparing to the same period of last year.

During the current year until 202212, 27, 84, 87, 85, 99 were FRANCE's top five traded commodities, with total import values of 144808.2919 million, 80789.8279 million, 67269.8521 million, 63353.8240 million, 49149.5070 million. These values correspond to 17.76%, 9.91%, 8.25%, 7.77%, 6.03% of FRANCE's total exports and, respectively, were up 100.53%, down 5.43%, down 12.06%, down 2.27%, up 1439.28% comparing to the same period of last year.

2. Current year until 202212, FRANCE binational trade profile

According to Dalian Infobank, during the current year until 202212, FRANCE-China binational exports and imports of goods amounted to 76485.6206 million and were up 0.05% comparing with the same period of last year. Among these, exports from FRANCE to China were 24898.0387 million and down 12.19%, imports from China to FRANCE were 51587.5819 million and up 7.27%. The total binational trade deficit was 26689.5432 million and up 35.24%.

During the urrent year until 202212, commodities with hs2 code, 85, 84, 88, 94, 42, were binational trade's top five traded commodities. They correspond to import and export values of 12945.2666 million, 10926.8625 million, 3792.9331 million, 3511.5231 million, 3266.3890 million and makes up 16.93%, 14.29%, 4.96%, 4.59%, 4.27% of the total binational imports and exports. These values were also up 7.99%, down 2.57%, down 10.85%, up 2.93%, down 4.11% comparing to the same period last year.

During the current year until 202212, 88, 84, 42, 33, 30 were the top five traded commodities exported to China from FRANCE, with export values of 3587.4079 million, 2993.2551 million, 2237.3953 million, 2014.7526 million, 1738.3761 million. These values account for 14.41%, 12.02%, 8.99%, 8.09%, 6.98% of FRANCE's total exports and were down 13.31%, down 16.93%, down 15.03%, down 9.24%, down 7.06% comparing to the same period of last year.

During the current year until 202212, 85, 84, 94, 62, 61 were FRANCE's top five traded commodities importing from China , with import values of 11734.5743 million, 7933.6074 million, 3415.7062 million, 2419.1648 million, 2147.3640 million. These values account for 22.75%, 15.38%, 6.62%, 4.69%, 4.16% of FRANCE's total imports and were up 10.42%, up 4.23%, up 3.08%, down 3.84%, up 9.96% comparing with the same period of last year.

3.Analysis of import and export trends

Data Source: Eurostat