1.  Overview the trade of GREECE in goods current year until 202104

According to Dalian Infobank, in 202104, GREECE's exports and imports of goods amounted to 9807.0212 million, and were up 69.87% comparing with the same period of last year. Among these, exports were up 65.14% at 3799.8364 million, and imports were up 73.01% at 6007.1849 million. And the corresponding trade deficit was 2207.3485 million and up 88.45%.

During the current year until 202104, GREECE's total exports and imports of goods were 36650.6225 million and were up 25.67% comparing to the same period of last year. Among these, exports were 14370.8035 million and up 29.39%; imports were 22279.8190 million and up 23.37%. The total trade deficit was 7909.0155 million and up 13.75%.

If considering by country (region), GERMANY, ITALY, CHINA, FRANCE, NETHERLANDS were GREECE's top five trading partners. During the current year until 202104, GREECE's imports and exports to five countries/territories were 3805.4685 million, 3202.4997 million, 1916.3367 million, 1794.3967 million, 1708.5291 million. These values correspond to 10.38%, 8.74%, 5.23%, 4.90%, 4.66% of GREECE's imports and exports, and, respectively, were up 25.76%, up 15.94%, up 26.59%, up 30.05%, up 31.22% comparing to the same period of last year.

Current year until 202104, 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 202104, GREECE's exports to these five countries/territories were 1309.9303 million, 1113.2638 million, 935.1546 million, 833.6538 million, 646.4393 million. These values correspond to 9.12%, 7.75%, 6.51%, 5.80%, 4.50% of GREECE's exports and, respectively, were up 5.14%, up 25.50%, up 37.44%, up 45.08%, up 10.47% comparing with the same period of last year.

Current year until 202104, GREECE's exports to top five countries/territories GERMANY, ITALY, CHINA, IRAQ, NETHERLANDS are the top five countries/territories that GREECE imports from in terms of the total export amount. During the current year until 202104, GREECE's imports from these five countries/territories were 2692.2047 million, 1892.5695 million, 1646.8280 million, 1402.7160 million, 1397.6558 million. These values correspond to 12.08%, 8.49%, 7.39%, 6.30%, 6.27% of GREECE's total imports and, respectively, were up 25.87%, up 24.82%, up 32.49%, up 80.37%, up 29.55% comparing with the same period of last year.

During the current year until 202104, the trade surplus of GREECE was mainly from CYPRUS, LEBANON, GIBRALTAR, TUNISIA, LIBYA at 762.3985 million, 339.0122 million, 246.8758 million, 230.8730 million, 224.2882 million, and up 36.83%, up 51.80%, up 24.89%, up 278.45%, up 27.52%. And the trade deficits were mainly from GERMANY, IRAQ, CHINA, RUSSIA, NETHERLANDS at 1578.9409 million, 1385.2162 million, 1377.3193 million, 1101.6484 million, 1086.7825 million, and up 26.13%, up 84.05%, up 41.68%, down 9.52%, up 27.00%.

Current year until 202104, GREECE's trade surplus or deficit with top five countries/territories During the current year until 202104,  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 8566.6484 million, 2690.6656 million, 2331.3789 million, 2124.9013 million, 1454.0007 million, which were up 23.74%, up 27.92%, up 29.02%, up 36.56%, up 32.99% comparing with the same period of last year and account for 23.37%, 7.34%, 6.36%, 5.80%, 3.97% of GREECE's total imports and exports.

During the current year until 202104, 27, 30, 76, 84, 85 were GREECE's top five traded commodities, with total import and export values of 3502.0056 million, 1290.3685 million, 761.9234 million, 617.0096 million, 616.0447 million. These values correspond to 24.37%, 8.98%, 5.30%, 4.29%, 4.29% of GREECE's total exports and, respectively, were up 31.99%, up 39.12%, up 28.01%, up 9.98%, up 59.73% comparing to the same period of last year.

During the current year until 202104, 27, 84, 85, 30, 87 were GREECE's top five traded commodities, with total import values of 5064.6428 million, 1714.3693 million, 1508.8566 million, 1400.2971 million, 1180.6850 million. These values correspond to 22.73%, 7.69%, 6.77%, 6.29%, 5.30% of GREECE's total exports and, respectively, were up 18.61%, up 37.59%, up 28.92%, up 19.09%, up 56.80% comparing to the same period of last year.

2. Current year until 202104, GREECE binational trade profile

According to Dalian Infobank, during the current year until 202104, GREECE-China binational exports and imports of goods amounted to 1916.3367 million and were up 26.59% comparing with the same period of last year. Among these, exports from GREECE to China were 269.5087 million and down 0.49%, imports from China to GREECE were 1646.8280 million and up 32.49%. The total binational trade deficit was 1377.3193 million and up 41.68%.

During the urrent year until 202104, commodities with hs2 code, 84, 85, 27, 94, 39, were binational trade's top five traded commodities. They correspond to import and export values of 398.3476 million, 360.8836 million, 101.5100 million, 90.3349 million, 62.1772 million and makes up 20.79%, 18.83%, 5.30%, 4.71%, 3.24% of the total binational imports and exports. These values were also up 33.16%, up 90.23%, down 32.02%, up 49.08%, up 30.92% comparing to the same period last year.

During the current year until 202104, 27, 25, 84, 26, 30 were the top five traded commodities exported to China from GREECE, with export values of 100.6334 million, 60.0614 million, 33.3122 million, 24.1818 million, 10.6955 million. These values account for 37.34%, 22.29%, 12.36%, 8.97%, 3.97% of GREECE's total exports and were down 32.33%, up 88.43%, up 30.06%, down 14.57%, up 37.40% comparing to the same period of last year.

During the current year until 202104, 84, 85, 94, 64, 39 were GREECE's top five traded commodities importing from China , with import values of 365.0354 million, 358.3237 million, 89.8575 million, 61.8803 million, 60.3033 million. These values account for 22.17%, 21.76%, 5.46%, 3.76%, 3.66% of GREECE's total imports and were up 33.45%, up 91.29%, up 49.19%, down 23.55%, up 30.45% comparing with the same period of last year.

3.Analysis of import and export trends

Data Source: Eurostat