1.  Overview the trade of GREECE in goods current year until 202109

According to Dalian Infobank, in 202109, GREECE's exports and imports of goods amounted to 11186.0021 million, and were up 39.88% comparing with the same period of last year. Among these, exports were up 42.95% at 4350.5826 million, and imports were up 38.00% at 6835.4194 million. And the corresponding trade deficit was 2484.8368 million and up 30.13%.

During the current year until 202109, GREECE's total exports and imports of goods were 88460.9969 million and were up 34.53% comparing to the same period of last year. Among these, exports were 34245.9154 million and up 36.04%; imports were 54215.0816 million and up 33.58%. The total trade deficit was 19969.1662 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 202109, GREECE's imports and exports to five countries/territories were 8908.5259 million, 8130.9587 million, 5054.1275 million, 4079.3465 million, 3938.7170 million. These values correspond to 10.07%, 9.19%, 5.71%, 4.61%, 4.45% of GREECE's imports and exports, and, respectively, were up 27.21%, up 29.94%, up 30.38%, up 27.97%, up 26.41% comparing to the same period of last year.

Current year until 202109, 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 202109, GREECE's exports to these five countries/territories were 3388.1400 million, 2586.3398 million, 2197.5769 million, 1772.1568 million, 1629.4196 million. These values correspond to 9.89%, 7.55%, 6.42%, 5.17%, 4.76% of GREECE's exports and, respectively, were up 26.61%, up 29.02%, up 35.01%, up 24.25%, up 49.59% comparing with the same period of last year.

Current year until 202109, 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 202109, GREECE's imports from these five countries/territories were 6322.1860 million, 4742.8187 million, 4364.0811 million, 3427.3858 million, 3232.8255 million. These values correspond to 11.66%, 8.75%, 8.05%, 6.32%, 5.96% of GREECE's total imports and, respectively, were up 26.48%, up 32.43%, up 35.64%, up 108.52%, up 34.61% comparing with the same period of last year.

During the current year until 202109, the trade surplus of GREECE was mainly from CYPRUS, LEBANON, UNITED KINGDOM, GIBRALTAR, ROMANIA at 1808.2303 million, 849.9952 million, 528.6887 million, 501.7219 million, 494.6326 million, and up 36.21%, up 81.19%, up 396.97%, up 34.02%, up 31.10%. And the trade deficits were mainly from GERMANY, CHINA, IRAQ, RUSSIA, NETHERLANDS at 3735.8462 million, 3674.0348 million, 3225.8452 million, 3065.9790 million, 2333.9944 million, and up 24.78%, up 43.59%, up 102.97%, up 35.18%, up 22.31%.

Current year until 202109, GREECE's trade surplus or deficit with top five countries/territories During the current year until 202109,  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 22679.2483 million, 5950.3508 million, 5784.8388 million, 5053.7498 million, 3563.3792 million, which were up 65.08%, up 20.95%, up 23.98%, up 38.04%, up 39.12% comparing with the same period of last year and account for 25.64%, 6.73%, 6.54%, 5.71%, 4.03% of GREECE's total imports and exports.

During the current year until 202109, 27, 30, 76, 85, 84 were GREECE's top five traded commodities, with total import and export values of 9383.2348 million, 2657.8565 million, 1859.5843 million, 1533.8381 million, 1504.0703 million. These values correspond to 27.40%, 7.76%, 5.43%, 4.48%, 4.39% of GREECE's total exports and, respectively, were up 69.20%, up 16.93%, up 38.40%, up 62.48%, up 4.26% comparing to the same period of last year.

During the current year until 202109, 27, 84, 85, 30, 87 were GREECE's top five traded commodities, with total import values of 13296.0135 million, 4280.7685 million, 3519.9117 million, 3292.4943 million, 2564.1028 million. These values correspond to 24.52%, 7.90%, 6.49%, 6.07%, 4.73% of GREECE's total exports and, respectively, were up 62.30%, up 32.81%, up 29.55%, up 24.41%, up 45.95% comparing to the same period of last year.

2. Current year until 202109, GREECE binational trade profile

According to Dalian Infobank, during the current year until 202109, GREECE-China binational exports and imports of goods amounted to 5054.1275 million and were up 30.38% comparing with the same period of last year. Among these, exports from GREECE to China were 690.0464 million and up 4.73%, imports from China to GREECE were 4364.0811 million and up 35.64%. The total binational trade deficit was 3674.0348 million and up 43.59%.

During the urrent year until 202109, commodities with hs2 code, 84, 85, 27, 94, 61, were binational trade's top five traded commodities. They correspond to import and export values of 1058.8364 million, 844.4573 million, 271.7440 million, 227.2326 million, 185.4219 million and makes up 20.95%, 16.71%, 5.38%, 4.50%, 3.67% of the total binational imports and exports. These values were also up 19.74%, up 47.73%, down 15.13%, up 59.69%, up 28.08% comparing to the same period last year.

During the current year until 202109, 27, 25, 84, 26, 30 were the top five traded commodities exported to China from GREECE, with export values of 270.5839 million, 174.3979 million, 75.6839 million, 47.5133 million, 27.9449 million. These values account for 39.21%, 25.27%, 10.97%, 6.89%, 4.05% of GREECE's total exports and were down 15.09%, up 72.22%, down 4.29%, down 35.22%, up 23.89% comparing to the same period of last year.

During the current year until 202109, 84, 85, 94, 61, 39 were GREECE's top five traded commodities importing from China , with import values of 983.1525 million, 838.7650 million, 226.3951 million, 185.2770 million, 169.6547 million. These values account for 22.53%, 19.22%, 5.19%, 4.25%, 3.89% of GREECE's total imports and were up 22.10%, up 48.39%, up 60.14%, up 28.10%, up 36.30% comparing with the same period of last year.

3.Analysis of import and export trends

Data Source: Eurostat