1.  Overview the trade of GREECE in goods current year until 202108

According to Dalian Infobank, in 202108, GREECE's exports and imports of goods amounted to 9169.3925 million, and were up 36.71% comparing with the same period of last year. Among these, exports were up 34.09% at 3290.1648 million, and imports were up 38.22% at 5879.2277 million. And the corresponding trade deficit was 2589.0629 million and up 43.85%.

During the current year until 202108, GREECE's total exports and imports of goods were 77257.9067 million and were up 33.75% comparing to the same period of last year. Among these, exports were 29881.4149 million and up 35.03%; imports were 47376.4918 million and up 32.96%. The total trade deficit was 17495.0768 million and up 29.57%.

If considering by country (region), GERMANY, ITALY, CHINA, FRANCE, NETHERLANDS were GREECE's top five trading partners. During the current year until 202108, GREECE's imports and exports to five countries/territories were 7779.1741 million, 7012.5063 million, 4340.7398 million, 3531.8543 million, 3484.1590 million. These values correspond to 10.07%, 9.08%, 5.62%, 4.57%, 4.51% of GREECE's imports and exports, and, respectively, were up 28.01%, up 28.18%, up 29.07%, up 28.24%, up 28.77% comparing to the same period of last year.

Current year until 202108, GREECE and the top five trade partners ITALY, GERMANY, CYPRUS, FRANCE, TURKEY are the top five countries/territories that GREECE exports to in terms of the total export amount. During the current year until 202108, GREECE's exports to these five countries/territories were 2928.4908 million, 2305.5209 million, 1912.0211 million, 1553.2781 million, 1445.6369 million. These values correspond to 9.80%, 7.72%, 6.40%, 5.20%, 4.84% of GREECE's exports and, respectively, were up 23.13%, up 29.97%, up 33.60%, up 28.27%, up 47.69% comparing with the same period of last year.

Current year until 202108, GREECE's exports to top five countries/territories GERMANY, ITALY, CHINA, IRAQ, RUSSIA are the top five countries/territories that GREECE imports from in terms of the total export amount. During the current year until 202108, GREECE's imports from these five countries/territories were 5473.6532 million, 4084.0155 million, 3757.5767 million, 2974.5704 million, 2886.4930 million. These values correspond to 11.55%, 8.62%, 7.93%, 6.28%, 6.09% of GREECE's total imports and, respectively, were up 27.20%, up 32.07%, up 35.77%, up 97.88%, up 28.04% comparing with the same period of last year.

During the current year until 202108, the trade surplus of GREECE was mainly from CYPRUS, LEBANON, GIBRALTAR, ROMANIA, UNITED KINGDOM at 1565.6238 million, 762.8927 million, 478.6178 million, 452.0769 million, 439.5429 million, and up 33.52%, up 87.00%, up 39.26%, up 38.67%, up 400.49%. And the trade deficits were mainly from CHINA, GERMANY, IRAQ, RUSSIA, NETHERLANDS at 3174.4137 million, 3168.1322 million, 2802.6103 million, 2745.4196 million, 2071.7802 million, and up 46.13%, up 25.25%, up 92.82%, up 28.47%, up 25.22%.

Current year until 202108, GREECE's trade surplus or deficit with top five countries/territories During the current year until 202108,  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 19539.7240 million, 5232.6332 million, 5110.3969 million, 4431.2334 million, 3122.2054 million, which were up 57.13%, up 23.18%, up 25.49%, up 38.95%, up 39.39% comparing with the same period of last year and account for 25.29%, 6.77%, 6.61%, 5.74%, 4.04% of GREECE's total imports and exports.

During the current year until 202108, 27, 30, 76, 85, 84 were GREECE's top five traded commodities, with total import and export values of 8004.6631 million, 2356.0444 million, 1601.4422 million, 1353.4725 million, 1341.7429 million. These values correspond to 26.79%, 7.88%, 5.36%, 4.53%, 4.49% of GREECE's total exports and, respectively, were up 62.06%, up 21.82%, up 36.86%, up 63.81%, up 6.32% comparing to the same period of last year.

During the current year until 202108, 27, 84, 85, 30, 87 were GREECE's top five traded commodities, with total import values of 11535.0609 million, 3768.6540 million, 3077.7609 million, 2876.5888 million, 2288.0671 million. These values correspond to 24.35%, 7.95%, 6.50%, 6.07%, 4.83% of GREECE's total exports and, respectively, were up 53.88%, up 34.10%, up 30.25%, up 24.31%, up 54.11% comparing to the same period of last year.

2. Current year until 202108, GREECE binational trade profile

According to Dalian Infobank, during the current year until 202108, GREECE-China binational exports and imports of goods amounted to 4340.7398 million and were up 29.07% comparing with the same period of last year. Among these, exports from GREECE to China were 583.1631 million and down 2.04%, imports from China to GREECE were 3757.5767 million and up 35.77%. The total binational trade deficit was 3174.4137 million and up 46.13%.

During the urrent year until 202108, commodities with hs2 code, 84, 85, 27, 94, 25, were binational trade's top five traded commodities. They correspond to import and export values of 933.3353 million, 732.3571 million, 213.7756 million, 193.7015 million, 153.9180 million and makes up 21.50%, 16.87%, 4.92%, 4.46%, 3.55% of the total binational imports and exports. These values were also up 20.34%, up 53.80%, down 27.91%, up 56.21%, up 82.47% comparing to the same period last year.

During the current year until 202108, 27, 25, 84, 26, 30 were the top five traded commodities exported to China from GREECE, with export values of 212.6760 million, 153.2458 million, 69.9794 million, 41.7506 million, 24.3778 million. These values account for 36.47%, 26.28%, 12.00%, 7.16%, 4.18% of GREECE's total exports and were down 27.95%, up 84.11%, down 7.07%, down 36.23%, up 23.27% comparing to the same period of last year.

During the current year until 202108, 84, 85, 94, 39, 61 were GREECE's top five traded commodities importing from China , with import values of 863.3559 million, 727.2207 million, 192.8710 million, 147.3790 million, 145.2665 million. These values account for 22.98%, 19.35%, 5.13%, 3.92%, 3.87% of GREECE's total imports and were up 23.29%, up 54.32%, up 56.59%, up 36.89%, up 16.28% comparing with the same period of last year.

3.Analysis of import and export trends

Data Source: Eurostat