1.  Overview the trade of GERMANY in goods current year until 202109

According to Dalian Infobank, in 202109, GERMANY's exports and imports of goods amounted to 249708.3791 million, and were up 6.03% comparing with the same period of last year. Among these, exports were up 2.06% at 132503.5760 million, and imports were up 10.92% at 117204.8032 million. And the corresponding trade surplus was 15298.7728 million and down 36.69%.

During the current year until 202109, GERMANY's total exports and imports of goods were 2241761.9082 million and were up 22.05% comparing to the same period of last year. Among these, exports were 1206156.1341 million and up 21.59%; imports were 1035605.7741 million and up 22.60%. The total trade surplus was 170550.3599 million and up 15.77%.

If considering by country (region), NETHERLANDS, CHINA, UNITED STATES, INTRA-EU, FRANCE were GERMANY's top five trading partners. During the current year until 202109, GERMANY's imports and exports to five countries/territories were 193525.3735 million, 175492.6885 million, 155144.1365 million, 151950.7000 million, 131240.2541 million. These values correspond to 8.63%, 7.83%, 6.92%, 6.78%, 5.85% of GERMANY's imports and exports, and, respectively, were up 11.52%, up 19.61%, up 21.42%, 0, up 6.66% comparing to the same period of last year.

Current year until 202109, GERMANY and the top five trade partners UNITED STATES, CHINA, FRANCE, INTRA-EU, NETHERLANDS are the top five countries/territories that GERMANY exports to in terms of the total export amount. During the current year until 202109, GERMANY's exports to these five countries/territories were 107366.4366 million, 92941.0212 million, 80166.2977 million, 76269.6000 million, 71028.4345 million. These values correspond to 8.90%, 7.71%, 6.65%, 6.32%, 5.89% of GERMANY's exports and, respectively, were up 26.73%, up 19.65%, up 7.01%, 0, up 9.83% comparing with the same period of last year.

Current year until 202109, GERMANY's exports to top five countries/territories NETHERLANDS, CHINA, INTRA-EU, POLAND, BELGIUM are the top five countries/territories that GERMANY imports from in terms of the total export amount. During the current year until 202109, GERMANY's imports from these five countries/territories were 122496.9391 million, 82551.6673 million, 75681.1000 million, 60098.1553 million, 55029.0870 million. These values correspond to 11.83%, 7.97%, 7.31%, 5.80%, 5.31% of GERMANY's total imports and, respectively, were up 12.52%, up 19.57%, 0, up 14.33%, up 16.89% comparing with the same period of last year.

During the current year until 202109, the trade surplus of GERMANY was mainly from UNITED STATES, UNITED KINGDOM, FRANCE, AUSTRIA, SWITZERLAND at 59588.7368 million, 29708.2509 million, 29092.3414 million, 13963.2063 million, 13400.4809 million, and up 43.01%, up 23.56%, up 8.62%, up 6.45%, up 3.03%. And the trade deficits were mainly from NETHERLANDS, BELGIUM, COUNTRIES AND TERRITORIES NOT SPECIFIED FOR COMMERCIAL OR MILITARY REASONS IN THE FRAMEWORK OF TRADE WITH THIRD COUNTRIES, IRELAND, CZECH REPUBLIC at 51468.5046 million, 16039.3945 million, 14422.9995 million, 11957.1191 million, 7104.6469 million, and up 16.46%, up 36.85%, up 121.12%, up 5.61%, up 13.38%.

Current year until 202109, GERMANY's trade surplus or deficit with top five countries/territories During the current year until 202109,  commodities with hs2 codes, 84, 87, 85, 99, 30, were GERMANY's top five traded commodities. They correspond to the import and export values of 313008.2452 million, 273023.3610 million, 245439.1710 million, 167100.9656 million, 137178.9017 million, which were up 11.26%, up 15.28%, up 14.83%, up 1168.85%, up 13.55% comparing with the same period of last year and account for 13.96%, 12.18%, 10.95%, 7.45%, 6.12% of GERMANY's total imports and exports.

During the current year until 202109, 84, 87, 85, 99, 30 were GERMANY's top five traded commodities, with total import and export values of 191475.1459 million, 179395.4982 million, 124106.3525 million, 83823.5180 million, 83817.8941 million. These values correspond to 15.87%, 14.87%, 10.29%, 6.95%, 6.95% of GERMANY's total exports and, respectively, were up 10.45%, up 19.78%, up 13.66%, up 1255.85%, up 16.06% comparing to the same period of last year.

During the current year until 202109, 84, 85, 87, 99, 27 were GERMANY's top five traded commodities, with total import values of 121533.0993 million, 121332.8185 million, 93627.8629 million, 83277.4476 million, 77075.5920 million. These values correspond to 11.74%, 11.72%, 9.04%, 8.04%, 7.44% of GERMANY's total exports and, respectively, were up 12.57%, up 16.04%, up 7.53%, up 1091.88%, up 37.88% comparing to the same period of last year.

2. Current year until 202109, GERMANY binational trade profile

According to Dalian Infobank, during the current year until 202109, GERMANY-China binational exports and imports of goods amounted to 175492.6885 million and were up 19.61% comparing with the same period of last year. Among these, exports from GERMANY to China were 92941.0212 million and up 19.65%, imports from China to GERMANY were 82551.6673 million and up 19.57%. The total binational trade surplus was 10389.3539 million and up 20.27%.

During the urrent year until 202109, commodities with hs2 code, 85, 84, 87, 90, 30, were binational trade's top five traded commodities. They correspond to import and export values of 38353.9316 million, 37425.8147 million, 26753.6749 million, 11675.9108 million, 5844.2785 million and makes up 21.86%, 21.33%, 15.24%, 6.65%, 3.33% of the total binational imports and exports. These values were also up 21.09%, up 23.59%, up 22.85%, up 22.82%, up 64.24% comparing to the same period last year.

During the current year until 202109, 87, 84, 85, 90, 30 were the top five traded commodities exported to China from GERMANY, with export values of 23938.1576 million, 19193.9908 million, 16063.0177 million, 8345.8391 million, 3917.2933 million. These values account for 25.76%, 20.65%, 17.28%, 8.98%, 4.21% of GERMANY's total exports and were up 18.69%, up 18.56%, up 18.09%, up 21.82%, up 18.06% comparing to the same period of last year.

During the current year until 202109, 85, 84, 94, 90, 87 were GERMANY's top five traded commodities importing from China , with import values of 22290.9139 million, 18231.8239 million, 3930.6127 million, 3330.0717 million, 2815.5173 million. These values account for 27.00%, 22.09%, 4.76%, 4.03%, 3.41% of GERMANY's total imports and were up 23.34%, up 29.37%, up 36.07%, up 25.40%, up 74.87% comparing with the same period of last year.

3.Analysis of import and export trends

Data Source: Eurostat