1.  Overview the trade of GREECE in goods current year until 202112

According to Dalian Infobank, in 202112, GREECE's exports and imports of goods amounted to 11085.8328 million, and were up 20.52% comparing with the same period of last year. Among these, exports were up 9.13% at 4025.0266 million, and imports were up 28.14% at 7060.8063 million. And the corresponding trade deficit was 3035.7797 million and up 66.62%.

During the current year until 202112, GREECE's total exports and imports of goods were 122910.7624 million and were up 34.93% comparing to the same period of last year. Among these, exports were 47119.0821 million and up 33.87%; imports were 75791.6803 million and up 35.59%. The total trade deficit was 28672.5982 million and up 38.51%.

If considering by country (region), GERMANY, ITALY, CHINA, FRANCE, TURKEY were GREECE's top five trading partners. During the current year until 202112, GREECE's imports and exports to five countries/territories were 11887.6987 million, 11252.6123 million, 6756.7825 million, 5369.6575 million, 5369.3522 million. These values correspond to 9.67%, 9.16%, 5.50%, 4.37%, 4.37% of GREECE's imports and exports, and, respectively, were up 22.62%, up 27.50%, up 28.46%, up 19.16%, up 62.56% comparing to the same period of last year.

Current year until 202112, GREECE and the top five trade partners ITALY, GERMANY, CYPRUS, TURKEY, BULGARIA are the top five countries/territories that GREECE exports to in terms of the total export amount. During the current year until 202112, GREECE's exports to these five countries/territories were 4661.1420 million, 3455.1861 million, 3025.2182 million, 2425.6053 million, 2307.1075 million. These values correspond to 9.89%, 7.33%, 6.42%, 5.15%, 4.90% of GREECE's exports and, respectively, were up 25.17%, up 26.09%, up 33.57%, up 58.72%, up 31.06% comparing with the same period of last year.

Current year until 202112, GREECE's exports to top five countries/territories GERMANY, ITALY, CHINA, RUSSIA, IRAQ are the top five countries/territories that GREECE imports from in terms of the total export amount. During the current year until 202112, GREECE's imports from these five countries/territories were 8432.5126 million, 6591.4703 million, 5913.7969 million, 5052.4672 million, 4889.3753 million. These values correspond to 11.13%, 8.70%, 7.80%, 6.67%, 6.45% of GREECE's total imports and, respectively, were up 21.25%, up 29.20%, up 38.19%, up 50.85%, up 112.28% comparing with the same period of last year.

During the current year until 202112, the trade surplus of GREECE was mainly from CYPRUS, LEBANON, UNITED KINGDOM, SOUTH KOREA, THE REPUBLIC OF NORTH MACEDONIA at 2480.9847 million, 1270.7216 million, 751.7964 million, 700.4851 million, 689.8877 million, and up 34.32%, up 90.84%, up 334.64%, up 545.84%, up 88.84%. And the trade deficits were mainly from CHINA, GERMANY, RUSSIA, IRAQ, NETHERLANDS at 5070.8112 million, 4977.3265 million, 4809.0800 million, 4632.7672 million, 3206.1930 million, and up 53.71%, up 18.11%, up 51.94%, up 107.33%, up 16.31%.

Current year until 202112, GREECE's trade surplus or deficit with top five countries/territories During the current year until 202112,  commodities with hs2 codes, 27, 84, 30, 85, 39, were GREECE's top five traded commodities. They correspond to the import and export values of 33242.4187 million, 7732.8255 million, 7687.5716 million, 7240.1114 million, 4856.4494 million, which were up 76.87%, up 19.12%, up 12.21%, up 36.64%, up 38.85% comparing with the same period of last year and account for 27.05%, 6.29%, 6.25%, 5.89%, 3.95% of GREECE's total imports and exports.

During the current year until 202112, 27, 30, 76, 85, 84 were GREECE's top five traded commodities, with total import and export values of 13267.5510 million, 3413.8779 million, 2538.2829 million, 2129.3399 million, 2044.3530 million. These values correspond to 28.16%, 7.25%, 5.39%, 4.52%, 4.34% of GREECE's total exports and, respectively, were up 72.25%, up 3.52%, up 37.42%, up 51.68%, up 4.01% comparing to the same period of last year.

During the current year until 202112, 27, 84, 85, 30, 87 were GREECE's top five traded commodities, with total import values of 19974.8678 million, 5688.4725 million, 5110.7715 million, 4273.6937 million, 3452.9699 million. These values correspond to 26.35%, 7.51%, 6.74%, 5.64%, 4.56% of GREECE's total exports and, respectively, were up 80.07%, up 25.68%, up 31.21%, up 20.28%, up 33.53% comparing to the same period of last year.

2. Current year until 202112, GREECE binational trade profile

According to Dalian Infobank, during the current year until 202112, GREECE-China binational exports and imports of goods amounted to 6756.7825 million and were up 28.46% comparing with the same period of last year. Among these, exports from GREECE to China were 842.9857 million and down 14.01%, imports from China to GREECE were 5913.7969 million and up 38.19%. The total binational trade deficit was 5070.8112 million and up 53.71%.

During the urrent year until 202112, 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 1340.0829 million, 1240.6562 million, 313.3229 million, 298.8518 million, 244.4610 million and makes up 19.83%, 18.36%, 4.64%, 4.42%, 3.62% of the total binational imports and exports. These values were also up 17.12%, up 54.12%, down 37.45%, up 56.02%, up 35.25% comparing to the same period last year.

During the current year until 202112, 27, 25, 84, 26, 30 were the top five traded commodities exported to China from GREECE, with export values of 311.6629 million, 208.7496 million, 95.7486 million, 58.2371 million, 41.1224 million. These values account for 36.97%, 24.76%, 11.36%, 6.91%, 4.88% of GREECE's total exports and were down 37.55%, up 30.79%, down 2.89%, down 35.74%, up 9.29% comparing to the same period of last year.

During the current year until 202112, 84, 85, 94, 61, 95 were GREECE's top five traded commodities importing from China , with import values of 1244.3342 million, 1231.8229 million, 297.8151 million, 244.2013 million, 229.1969 million. These values account for 21.04%, 20.83%, 5.04%, 4.13%, 3.88% of GREECE's total imports and were up 19.01%, up 54.90%, up 56.75%, up 35.24%, up 35.54% comparing with the same period of last year.

3.Analysis of import and export trends

Data Source: Eurostat