1.  Overview the trade of GERMANY in goods current year until 202112

According to Dalian Infobank, in 202112, GERMANY's exports and imports of goods amounted to 248803.7854 million, and were up 9.05% comparing with the same period of last year. Among these, exports were up 3.01% at 127185.9271 million, and imports were up 16.17% at 121617.8582 million. And the corresponding trade surplus was 5568.0689 million and down 70.35%.

During the current year until 202112, GERMANY's total exports and imports of goods were 3042786.2483 million and were up 19.12% comparing to the same period of last year. Among these, exports were 1626169.2866 million and up 17.62%; imports were 1416616.9618 million and up 20.89%. The total trade surplus was 209552.3248 million and down 0.57%.

If considering by country (region), NETHERLANDS, CHINA, UNITED STATES, FRANCE, POLAND were GERMANY's top five trading partners. During the current year until 202112, GERMANY's imports and exports to five countries/territories were 272534.4951 million, 239501.3747 million, 208467.4859 million, 182759.1298 million, 169239.7313 million. These values correspond to 8.96%, 7.87%, 6.85%, 6.01%, 5.56% of GERMANY's imports and exports, and, respectively, were up 14.13%, up 17.36%, up 18.08%, up 6.65%, up 12.85% comparing to the same period of last year.

Current year until 202112, GERMANY and the top five trade partners UNITED STATES, CHINA, FRANCE, NETHERLANDS, POLAND are the top five countries/territories that GERMANY exports to in terms of the total export amount. During the current year until 202112, GERMANY's exports to these five countries/territories were 145056.6458 million, 123823.4741 million, 111276.2671 million, 98932.6513 million, 84476.9414 million. These values correspond to 8.92%, 7.61%, 6.84%, 6.08%, 5.19% of GERMANY's exports and, respectively, were up 22.22%, up 12.19%, up 7.36%, up 11.09%, up 13.57% comparing with the same period of last year.

Current year until 202112, GERMANY's exports to top five countries/territories NETHERLANDS, CHINA, POLAND, BELGIUM, INTRA-EU are the top five countries/territories that GERMANY imports from in terms of the total export amount. During the current year until 202112, GERMANY's imports from these five countries/territories were 173601.8437 million, 115677.9007 million, 84762.7898 million, 78127.2414 million, 78110.6400 million. These values correspond to 12.25%, 8.17%, 5.98%, 5.52%, 5.51% of GERMANY's total imports and, respectively, were up 15.93%, up 23.46%, up 12.14%, up 23.47%, 0 comparing with the same period of last year.

During the current year until 202112, the trade surplus of GERMANY was mainly from UNITED STATES, UNITED KINGDOM, FRANCE, AUSTRIA, SWITZERLAND at 81645.8057 million, 42377.0813 million, 39793.4043 million, 20364.5264 million, 19254.9393 million, and up 34.22%, up 26.58%, up 10.77%, up 15.34%, up 12.61%. And the trade deficits were mainly from NETHERLANDS, COUNTRIES AND TERRITORIES NOT SPECIFIED FOR COMMERCIAL OR MILITARY REASONS IN THE FRAMEWORK OF TRADE WITH THIRD COUNTRIES, BELGIUM, IRELAND, CZECH REPUBLIC at 74669.1924 million, 25464.3424 million, 23415.6484 million, 15809.1934 million, 10458.5951 million, and up 23.05%, up 163.40%, up 69.54%, up 1.99%, down 7.96%.

Current year until 202112, GERMANY's trade surplus or deficit with top five countries/territories During the current year until 202112,  commodities with hs2 codes, 84, 87, 85, 30, 99, were GERMANY's top five traded commodities. They correspond to the import and export values of 426586.7389 million, 374402.0629 million, 340433.1757 million, 187880.8103 million, 170517.6880 million, which were up 9.26%, up 8.51%, up 12.22%, up 14.99%, up 806.20% comparing with the same period of last year and account for 14.02%, 12.30%, 11.19%, 6.17%, 5.60% of GERMANY's total imports and exports.

During the current year until 202112, 84, 87, 85, 30, 99 were GERMANY's top five traded commodities, with total import and export values of 259791.2584 million, 246102.5155 million, 170140.6035 million, 113664.3758 million, 82012.7190 million. These values correspond to 15.98%, 15.13%, 10.46%, 6.99%, 5.04% of GERMANY's total exports and, respectively, were up 8.38%, up 12.74%, up 11.10%, up 16.25%, up 809.25% comparing to the same period of last year.

During the current year until 202112, 85, 84, 87, 27, 99 were GERMANY's top five traded commodities, with total import values of 170292.5723 million, 166795.4805 million, 128299.5474 million, 119233.1030 million, 88504.9690 million. These values correspond to 12.02%, 11.77%, 9.06%, 8.42%, 6.25% of GERMANY's total exports and, respectively, were up 13.36%, up 10.65%, up 1.23%, up 57.68%, up 803.40% comparing to the same period of last year.

2. Current year until 202112, GERMANY binational trade profile

According to Dalian Infobank, during the current year until 202112, GERMANY-China binational exports and imports of goods amounted to 239501.3747 million and were up 17.36% comparing with the same period of last year. Among these, exports from GERMANY to China were 123823.4741 million and up 12.19%, imports from China to GERMANY were 115677.9007 million and up 23.46%. The total binational trade surplus was 8145.5734 million and down 51.14%.

During the urrent year until 202112, 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 53329.5850 million, 50238.6082 million, 36329.2903 million, 15666.4277 million, 7711.4796 million and makes up 22.27%, 20.98%, 15.17%, 6.54%, 3.22% of the total binational imports and exports. These values were also up 19.41%, up 18.65%, up 17.87%, up 16.85%, up 57.59% comparing to the same period last year.

During the current year until 202112, 87, 84, 85, 90, 30 were the top five traded commodities exported to China from GERMANY, with export values of 32466.0701 million, 25165.1110 million, 21273.4383 million, 11100.3338 million, 5095.9398 million. These values account for 26.22%, 20.32%, 17.18%, 8.96%, 4.12% of GERMANY's total exports and were up 13.75%, up 10.05%, up 12.41%, up 14.23%, up 16.20% comparing to the same period of last year.

During the current year until 202112, 85, 84, 94, 90, 87 were GERMANY's top five traded commodities importing from China , with import values of 32056.1466 million, 25073.4973 million, 5482.9435 million, 4566.0939 million, 3863.2202 million. These values account for 27.71%, 21.68%, 4.74%, 3.95%, 3.34% of GERMANY's total imports and were up 24.56%, up 28.75%, up 38.26%, up 23.77%, up 69.48% comparing with the same period of last year.

3.Analysis of import and export trends

Data Source: Eurostat