1.  Overview the trade of GERMANY in goods current year until 202009

According to Dalian Infobank, in 202009, GERMANY's exports and imports of goods amounted to 235499.0395 million, and were up 3.28% comparing with the same period of last year. Among these, exports were up 3.10% at 129831.6250 million, and imports were up 3.51% at 105667.4145 million. And the corresponding trade surplus was 24164.2105 million and up 1.36%.

During the current year until 202009, GERMANY's total exports and imports of goods were 1836716.6945 million and were down 10.45% comparing to the same period of last year. Among these, exports were 992017.9365 million and down 11.60%; imports were 844698.7580 million and down 9.06%. The total trade surplus was 147319.1785 million and down 23.84%.

If considering by country (region), NETHERLANDS, CHINA, UNITED STATES, FRANCE, POLAND were GERMANY's top five trading partners. During the current year until 202009, GERMANY's imports and exports to five countries/territories were 174025.8201 million, 146715.8686 million, 127774.7216 million, 123250.6080 million, 104923.6901 million. These values correspond to 9.47%, 7.99%, 6.96%, 6.71%, 5.71% of GERMANY's imports and exports, and, respectively, were down 8.78%, up 1.48%, down 12.37%, down 17.37%, down 2.18% comparing to the same period of last year.

Current year until 202009, GERMANY and the top five trade partners UNITED STATES, CHINA, FRANCE, NETHERLANDS, UNITED KINGDOM are the top five countries/territories that GERMANY exports to in terms of the total export amount. During the current year until 202009, GERMANY's exports to these five countries/territories were 84720.6387 million, 77677.1180 million, 74960.9383 million, 64632.4296 million, 55042.4481 million. These values correspond to 8.54%, 7.83%, 7.56%, 6.52%, 5.55% of GERMANY's exports and, respectively, were down 16.00%, down 2.75%, down 17.00%, down 7.90%, down 18.91% comparing with the same period of last year.

Current year until 202009, GERMANY's exports to top five countries/territories NETHERLANDS, CHINA, POLAND, FRANCE, BELGIUM are the top five countries/territories that GERMANY imports from in terms of the total export amount. During the current year until 202009, GERMANY's imports from these five countries/territories were 109393.3906 million, 69038.7507 million, 52349.8835 million, 48289.6697 million, 47205.7590 million. These values correspond to 12.95%, 8.17%, 6.20%, 5.72%, 5.59% of GERMANY's total imports and, respectively, were down 9.29%, up 6.70%, up 0.03%, down 17.95%, down 13.51% comparing with the same period of last year.

During the current year until 202009, the trade surplus of GERMANY was mainly from UNITED STATES, FRANCE, UNITED KINGDOM, AUSTRIA, SWITZERLAND at 41666.5558 million, 26671.2686 million, 24112.8317 million, 13358.3116 million, 13005.8514 million, and down 25.47%, down 15.22%, down 30.30%, down 10.31%, up 7.95%. And the trade deficits were mainly from NETHERLANDS, BELGIUM, IRELAND, COUNTRIES AND TERRITORIES NOT SPECIFIED FOR COMMERCIAL OR MILITARY REASONS IN THE FRAMEWORK OF TRADE WITH THIRD COUNTRIES, CZECH REPUBLIC at 44760.9610 million, 11922.6675 million, 11311.2233 million, 6522.5570 million, 5893.9267 million, and down 11.23%, down 22.69%, up 68.40%, down 32.59%, down 18.33%.

Current year until 202009, GERMANY's trade surplus or deficit with top five countries/territories During the current year until 202009,  commodities with hs2 codes, 84, 87, 85, 30, 90, were GERMANY's top five traded commodities. They correspond to the import and export values of 280785.8009 million, 235721.2670 million, 213406.5100 million, 121101.9813 million, 83668.8568 million, which were down 12.28%, down 20.81%, down 8.04%, up 8.88%, down 8.61% comparing with the same period of last year and account for 15.29%, 12.83%, 11.62%, 6.59%, 4.56% of GERMANY's total imports and exports.

During the current year until 202009, 84, 87, 85, 30, 90 were GERMANY's top five traded commodities, with total import and export values of 173185.7102 million, 149619.5325 million, 109194.4736 million, 72412.6052 million, 52954.5731 million. These values correspond to 17.46%, 15.08%, 11.01%, 7.30%, 5.34% of GERMANY's total exports and, respectively, were down 13.10%, down 22.05%, down 8.68%, up 6.75%, down 9.87% comparing to the same period of last year.

During the current year until 202009, 84, 85, 87, 27, 30 were GERMANY's top five traded commodities, with total import values of 107600.0907 million, 104212.0364 million, 86101.7345 million, 56296.0540 million, 48689.3761 million. These values correspond to 12.74%, 12.34%, 10.19%, 6.66%, 5.76% of GERMANY's total exports and, respectively, were down 10.94%, down 7.37%, down 18.58%, down 30.74%, up 12.21% comparing to the same period of last year.

2. Current year until 202009, GERMANY binational trade profile

According to Dalian Infobank, during the current year until 202009, GERMANY-China binational exports and imports of goods amounted to 146715.8686 million and were up 1.48% comparing with the same period of last year. Among these, exports from GERMANY to China were 77677.1180 million and down 2.75%, imports from China to GERMANY were 69038.7507 million and up 6.70%. The total binational trade surplus was 8638.3673 million and down 43.04%.

During the urrent year until 202009, commodities with hs2 code, 85, 84, 87, 90, 63, were binational trade's top five traded commodities. They correspond to import and export values of 31675.1741 million, 30282.4598 million, 21777.9457 million, 9506.4221 million, 6276.9666 million and makes up 21.59%, 20.64%, 14.84%, 6.48%, 4.28% of the total binational imports and exports. These values were also up 4.02%, down 3.84%, down 3.50%, up 3.61%, up 545.99% comparing to the same period last year.

During the current year until 202009, 87, 84, 85, 90, 30 were the top five traded commodities exported to China from GERMANY, with export values of 20167.9086 million, 16189.7368 million, 13602.1425 million, 6850.8296 million, 3318.0380 million. These values account for 25.96%, 20.84%, 17.51%, 8.82%, 4.27% of GERMANY's total exports and were down 3.19%, down 7.94%, up 6.16%, up 2.91%, up 6.25% comparing to the same period of last year.

During the current year until 202009, 85, 84, 63, 94, 90 were GERMANY's top five traded commodities importing from China , with import values of 18073.0317 million, 14092.7230 million, 6228.4073 million, 2888.6723 million, 2655.5925 million. These values account for 26.18%, 20.41%, 9.02%, 4.18%, 3.85% of GERMANY's total imports and were up 2.46%, up 1.36%, up 555.62%, down 2.75%, up 5.46% comparing with the same period of last year.

3.Analysis of import and export trends

Data Source: Eurostat