1.  Overview the trade of GREECE in goods current year until 202004

According to Dalian Infobank, in 202004, GREECE's exports and imports of goods amounted to 5773.0657 million, and were down 32.24% comparing with the same period of last year. Among these, exports were down 31.29% at 2301.7524 million, and imports were down 32.86% at 3471.3134 million. And the corresponding trade deficit was 1169.5610 million and down 35.76%.

During the current year until 202004, GREECE's total exports and imports of goods were 29141.6522 million and were down 11.93% comparing to the same period of last year. Among these, exports were 11101.1552 million and down 10.78%; imports were 18040.4969 million and down 12.61%. The total trade deficit was 6939.3417 million and down 15.39%.

If considering by country (region), GERMANY, ITALY, CHINA, FRANCE, RUSSIA were GREECE's top five trading partners. During the current year until 202004, GREECE's imports and exports to five countries/territories were 3018.0815 million, 2758.4466 million, 1513.8129 million, 1368.1115 million, 1327.4751 million. These values correspond to 10.36%, 9.47%, 5.19%, 4.69%, 4.56% of GREECE's imports and exports, and, respectively, were down 4.30%, down 9.99%, down 13.78%, down 1.71%, down 12.48% comparing to the same period of last year.

Current year until 202004, GREECE and the top five trade partners ITALY, GERMANY, CYPRUS, BULGARIA, FRANCE are the top five countries/territories that GREECE exports to in terms of the total export amount. During the current year until 202004, GREECE's exports to these five countries/territories were 1242.3221 million, 887.5036 million, 685.2621 million, 587.6703 million, 565.0092 million. These values correspond to 11.19%, 7.99%, 6.17%, 5.29%, 5.09% of GREECE's exports and, respectively, were down 5.82%, up 14.67%, down 6.26%, up 5.13%, up 24.00% comparing with the same period of last year.

Current year until 202004, GREECE's exports to top five countries/territories GERMANY, ITALY, RUSSIA, CHINA, NETHERLANDS are the top five countries/territories that GREECE imports from in terms of the total export amount. During the current year until 202004, GREECE's imports from these five countries/territories were 2130.5779 million, 1516.1245 million, 1272.5268 million, 1242.9692 million, 1075.8565 million. These values correspond to 11.81%, 8.40%, 7.05%, 6.89%, 5.96% of GREECE's total imports and, respectively, were down 10.47%, down 13.14%, down 12.61%, down 9.73%, up 9.62% comparing with the same period of last year.

During the current year until 202004, the trade surplus of GREECE was mainly from CYPRUS, LEBANON, GIBRALTAR, LIBYA, ROMANIA at 561.7287 million, 223.3252 million, 197.6674 million, 175.8818 million, 148.3568 million, and down 2.33%, down 57.59%, up 22.40%, up 626.11%, up 124.19%. And the trade deficits were mainly from GERMANY, RUSSIA, CHINA, NETHERLANDS, KAZAKHSTAN at 1243.0744 million, 1217.5786 million, 972.1255 million, 852.5774 million, 803.5572 million, and down 22.59%, down 12.74%, down 2.61%, up 13.18%, up 3.03%.

Current year until 202004, GREECE's trade surplus or deficit with top five countries/territories During the current year until 202004,  commodities with hs2 codes, 27, 30, 84, 85, 39, were GREECE's top five traded commodities. They correspond to the import and export values of 6920.5697 million, 2102.1839 million, 1799.1961 million, 1551.8931 million, 1095.5139 million, which were down 28.37%, up 22.67%, down 16.76%, up 1.34%, down 7.45% comparing with the same period of last year and account for 23.75%, 7.21%, 6.17%, 5.33%, 3.76% of GREECE's total imports and exports.

During the current year until 202004, 27, 30, 76, 84, 20 were GREECE's top five traded commodities, with total import and export values of 2653.2606 million, 926.1509 million, 594.3366 million, 562.7724 million, 426.6485 million. These values correspond to 23.90%, 8.34%, 5.35%, 5.07%, 3.84% of GREECE's total exports and, respectively, were down 32.11%, up 36.86%, down 11.01%, down 14.53%, up 7.06% comparing to the same period of last year.

During the current year until 202004, 27, 84, 30, 85, 29 were GREECE's top five traded commodities, with total import values of 4267.3091 million, 1236.4237 million, 1176.0330 million, 1165.5051 million, 816.1401 million. These values correspond to 23.65%, 6.85%, 6.52%, 6.46%, 4.52% of GREECE's total exports and, respectively, were down 25.83%, down 17.75%, up 13.40%, up 2.40%, up 11.36% comparing to the same period of last year.

2. Current year until 202004, GREECE binational trade profile

According to Dalian Infobank, during the current year until 202004, GREECE-China binational exports and imports of goods amounted to 1513.8129 million and were down 13.78% comparing with the same period of last year. Among these, exports from GREECE to China were 270.8437 million and down 28.49%, imports from China to GREECE were 1242.9692 million and down 9.73%. The total binational trade deficit was 972.1255 million and down 2.61%.

During the urrent year until 202004, commodities with hs2 code, 84, 85, 27, 64, 61, were binational trade's top five traded commodities. They correspond to import and export values of 299.1451 million, 189.7085 million, 149.3317 million, 80.9719 million, 65.3504 million and makes up 19.76%, 12.53%, 9.86%, 5.35%, 4.32% of the total binational imports and exports. These values were also down 21.62%, up 21.00%, down 27.33%, up 6.32%, down 7.79% comparing to the same period last year.

During the current year until 202004, 27, 25, 26, 84, 30 were the top five traded commodities exported to China from GREECE, with export values of 148.7041 million, 31.8741 million, 28.3046 million, 25.6121 million, 7.7841 million. These values account for 54.90%, 11.77%, 10.45%, 9.46%, 2.87% of GREECE's total exports and were down 27.53%, down 56.65%, up 81.79%, down 7.65%, down 36.90% comparing to the same period of last year.

During the current year until 202004, 84, 85, 64, 61, 94 were GREECE's top five traded commodities importing from China , with import values of 273.5330 million, 187.3174 million, 80.9418 million, 65.2843 million, 60.2310 million. These values account for 22.01%, 15.07%, 6.51%, 5.25%, 4.85% of GREECE's total imports and were down 22.71%, up 22.13%, up 6.32%, down 7.85%, down 15.04% comparing with the same period of last year.

3.Analysis of import and export trends

Data Source: Eurostat