1.  Overview the trade of GREECE in goods current year until 202008

According to Dalian Infobank, in 202008, GREECE's exports and imports of goods amounted to 6383.4215 million, and were down 12.24% comparing with the same period of last year. Among these, exports were down 8.59% at 2440.5422 million, and imports were down 14.35% at 3942.8793 million. And the corresponding trade deficit was 1502.3371 million and down 22.31%.

During the current year until 202008, GREECE's total exports and imports of goods were 57359.7506 million and were down 14.45% comparing to the same period of last year. Among these, exports were 22100.9776 million and down 12.59%; imports were 35258.7730 million and down 15.58%. The total trade deficit was 13157.7954 million and down 20.16%.

If considering by country (region), GERMANY, ITALY, CHINA, FRANCE, NETHERLANDS were GREECE's top five trading partners. During the current year until 202008, GREECE's imports and exports to five countries/territories were 6058.9162 million, 5454.7069 million, 3362.8898 million, 2743.9210 million, 2695.6513 million. These values correspond to 10.56%, 9.51%, 5.86%, 4.78%, 4.70% of GREECE's imports and exports, and, respectively, were down 4.13%, down 12.50%, down 10.15%, up 2.90%, up 8.32% comparing to the same period of last year.

Current year until 202008, GREECE and the top five trade partners ITALY, GERMANY, CYPRUS, FRANCE, BULGARIA are the top five countries/territories that GREECE exports to in terms of the total export amount. During the current year until 202008, GREECE's exports to these five countries/territories were 2362.6578 million, 1773.5530 million, 1441.0048 million, 1199.8702 million, 1160.7398 million. These values correspond to 10.69%, 8.02%, 6.52%, 5.43%, 5.25% of GREECE's exports and, respectively, were down 12.46%, up 4.38%, down 5.10%, up 37.63%, down 3.83% comparing with the same period of last year.

Current year until 202008, GREECE's exports to top five countries/territories GERMANY, ITALY, CHINA, RUSSIA, NETHERLANDS are the top five countries/territories that GREECE imports from in terms of the total export amount. During the current year until 202008, GREECE's imports from these five countries/territories were 4285.3632 million, 3092.0491 million, 2767.6539 million, 2187.4976 million, 2169.3403 million. These values correspond to 12.15%, 8.77%, 7.85%, 6.20%, 6.15% of GREECE's total imports and, respectively, were down 7.26%, down 12.54%, down 9.48%, down 28.51%, up 8.82% comparing with the same period of last year.

During the current year until 202008, the trade surplus of GREECE was mainly from CYPRUS, LEBANON, LIBYA, GIBRALTAR, ROMANIA at 1183.1717 million, 405.6051 million, 346.9849 million, 343.8108 million, 325.3591 million, and down 1.80%, down 51.67%, up 7090.56%, up 20.80%, up 144.28%. And the trade deficits were mainly from GERMANY, CHINA, RUSSIA, NETHERLANDS, KAZAKHSTAN at 2511.8102 million, 2172.4179 million, 2070.1980 million, 1643.0293 million, 1357.0057 million, and down 14.03%, down 8.42%, down 28.81%, up 9.65%, down 5.95%.

Current year until 202008, GREECE's trade surplus or deficit with top five countries/territories During the current year until 202008,  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 12112.2248 million, 4243.9677 million, 4048.2413 million, 3180.5204 million, 2243.2533 million, which were down 38.65%, up 25.89%, down 6.94%, up 3.30%, down 6.11% comparing with the same period of last year and account for 21.12%, 7.40%, 7.06%, 5.54%, 3.91% of GREECE's total imports and exports.

During the current year until 202008, 27, 30, 84, 76, 39 were GREECE's top five traded commodities, with total import and export values of 4934.7878 million, 1931.0139 million, 1264.4059 million, 1169.4596 million, 856.4578 million. These values correspond to 22.33%, 8.74%, 5.72%, 5.29%, 3.88% of GREECE's total exports and, respectively, were down 39.73%, up 44.50%, down 3.13%, down 12.50%, down 6.45% comparing to the same period of last year.

During the current year until 202008, 27, 84, 85, 30, 29 were GREECE's top five traded commodities, with total import values of 7177.4370 million, 2783.8354 million, 2353.4827 million, 2312.9537 million, 1964.3891 million. These values correspond to 20.36%, 7.90%, 6.67%, 6.56%, 5.57% of GREECE's total exports and, respectively, were down 37.89%, down 8.57%, up 3.96%, up 13.67%, up 52.72% comparing to the same period of last year.

2. Current year until 202008, GREECE binational trade profile

According to Dalian Infobank, during the current year until 202008, GREECE-China binational exports and imports of goods amounted to 3362.8898 million and were down 10.15% comparing with the same period of last year. Among these, exports from GREECE to China were 595.2360 million and down 13.15%, imports from China to GREECE were 2767.6539 million and down 9.48%. The total binational trade deficit was 2172.4179 million and down 8.42%.

During the urrent year until 202008, commodities with hs2 code, 84, 85, 27, 61, 94, were binational trade's top five traded commodities. They correspond to import and export values of 775.5816 million, 476.1651 million, 296.5280 million, 125.0468 million, 124.0019 million and makes up 23.06%, 14.16%, 8.82%, 3.72%, 3.69% of the total binational imports and exports. These values were also down 2.22%, up 41.59%, down 12.49%, down 49.86%, down 16.73% comparing to the same period last year.

During the current year until 202008, 27, 25, 84, 26, 30 were the top five traded commodities exported to China from GREECE, with export values of 295.1683 million, 83.2365 million, 75.3068 million, 65.4738 million, 19.7753 million. These values account for 49.59%, 13.98%, 12.65%, 11.00%, 3.32% of GREECE's total exports and were down 12.67%, down 47.74%, up 30.97%, up 103.30%, down 12.99% comparing to the same period of last year.

During the current year until 202008, 84, 85, 61, 94, 64 were GREECE's top five traded commodities importing from China , with import values of 700.2749 million, 471.2342 million, 124.9244 million, 123.1705 million, 121.0087 million. These values account for 25.30%, 17.03%, 4.51%, 4.45%, 4.37% of GREECE's total imports and were down 4.81%, up 42.40%, down 49.90%, down 16.98%, down 27.69% comparing with the same period of last year.

3.Analysis of import and export trends

Data Source: Eurostat