1.  Overview the trade of GREECE in goods current year until 202201

According to Dalian Infobank, in 202201, GREECE's exports and imports of goods amounted to 10966.0216 million, and were up 38.07% comparing with the same period of last year. Among these, exports were up 24.44% at 3817.4012 million, and imports were up 46.65% at 7148.6204 million. And the corresponding trade deficit was 3331.2192 million and up 84.36%.

During the current year until 202201, GREECE's total exports and imports of goods were 10966.0216 million and were up 38.07% comparing to the same period of last year. Among these, exports were 3817.4012 million and up 24.44%; imports were 7148.6204 million and up 46.65%. The total trade deficit was 3331.2192 million and up 84.36%.

If considering by country (region), GERMANY, ITALY, CHINA, RUSSIA, IRAQ were GREECE's top five trading partners. During the current year until 202201, GREECE's imports and exports to five countries/territories were 1159.4744 million, 882.2080 million, 734.2369 million, 581.6929 million, 471.1402 million. These values correspond to 10.57%, 8.04%, 6.70%, 5.30%, 4.30% of GREECE's imports and exports, and, respectively, were up 35.83%, up 31.53%, up 81.12%, up 99.06%, up 77.79% comparing to the same period of last year.

Current year until 202201, GREECE and the top five trade partners ITALY, GERMANY, LEBANON, CYPRUS, BULGARIA are the top five countries/territories that GREECE exports to in terms of the total export amount. During the current year until 202201, GREECE's exports to these five countries/territories were 411.2862 million, 287.8459 million, 212.5450 million, 208.4709 million, 183.5215 million. These values correspond to 10.77%, 7.54%, 5.57%, 5.46%, 4.81% of GREECE's exports and, respectively, were up 35.39%, up 15.05%, up 178.16%, up 15.40%, up 29.85% comparing with the same period of last year.

Current year until 202201, GREECE's exports to top five countries/territories GERMANY, CHINA, RUSSIA, ITALY, IRAQ are the top five countries/territories that GREECE imports from in terms of the total export amount. During the current year until 202201, GREECE's imports from these five countries/territories were 871.6285 million, 709.5577 million, 563.5525 million, 470.9218 million, 469.0836 million. These values correspond to 12.19%, 9.93%, 7.88%, 6.59%, 6.56% of GREECE's total imports and, respectively, were up 44.44%, up 92.66%, up 102.18%, up 28.34%, up 78.68% comparing with the same period of last year.

During the current year until 202201, the trade surplus of GREECE was mainly from LEBANON, CYPRUS, GIBRALTAR, THE REPUBLIC OF NORTH MACEDONIA, ROMANIA at 203.9265 million, 172.3847 million, 108.1958 million, 75.6003 million, 71.1911 million, and up 196.05%, up 21.84%, up 408.54%, up 118.53%, up 56.02%. And the trade deficits were mainly from CHINA, GERMANY, RUSSIA, IRAQ, NETHERLANDS at 684.8785 million, 583.7826 million, 545.4121 million, 467.0269 million, 261.3511 million, and up 106.78%, up 65.25%, up 105.62%, up 79.59%, down 4.02%.

Current year until 202201, GREECE's trade surplus or deficit with top five countries/territories During the current year until 202201,  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 3345.0104 million, 749.2824 million, 629.9475 million, 592.9797 million, 389.7964 million, which were up 87.88%, up 17.66%, up 25.08%, up 29.53%, up 35.15% comparing with the same period of last year and account for 30.50%, 6.83%, 5.74%, 5.41%, 3.55% of GREECE's total imports and exports.

During the current year until 202201, 27, 30, 76, 84, 85 were GREECE's top five traded commodities, with total import and export values of 1115.8702 million, 238.4877 million, 216.6072 million, 202.6856 million, 161.2293 million. These values correspond to 29.23%, 6.25%, 5.67%, 5.31%, 4.22% of GREECE's total exports and, respectively, were up 75.02%, down 21.91%, up 23.27%, up 41.16%, up 20.17% comparing to the same period of last year.

During the current year until 202201, 27, 30, 85, 84, 87 were GREECE's top five traded commodities, with total import values of 2229.1402 million, 510.7947 million, 431.7504 million, 427.2619 million, 255.2108 million. These values correspond to 31.18%, 7.15%, 6.04%, 5.98%, 3.57% of GREECE's total exports and, respectively, were up 95.06%, up 54.14%, up 33.41%, up 18.66%, up 8.22% comparing to the same period of last year.

2. Current year until 202201, GREECE binational trade profile

According to Dalian Infobank, during the current year until 202201, GREECE-China binational exports and imports of goods amounted to 734.2369 million and were up 81.12% comparing with the same period of last year. Among these, exports from GREECE to China were 24.6792 million and down 33.45%, imports from China to GREECE were 709.5577 million and up 92.66%. The total binational trade deficit was 684.8785 million and up 106.78%.

During the urrent year until 202201, commodities with hs2 code, 84, 85, 94, 38, 95, were binational trade's top five traded commodities. They correspond to import and export values of 161.4894 million, 141.6985 million, 33.1078 million, 32.6891 million, 28.0790 million and makes up 21.99%, 19.30%, 4.51%, 4.45%, 3.82% of the total binational imports and exports. These values were also up 77.81%, up 110.85%, up 86.07%, up 979.29%, up 132.64% comparing to the same period last year.

During the current year until 202201, 25, 84, 26, 04, 30 were the top five traded commodities exported to China from GREECE, with export values of 8.2946 million, 4.9998 million, 3.2161 million, 2.0907 million, 1.5323 million. These values account for 33.61%, 20.26%, 13.03%, 8.47%, 6.21% of GREECE's total exports and were down 35.26%, down 38.68%, down 44.49%, up 627.57%, down 42.23% comparing to the same period of last year.

During the current year until 202201, 84, 85, 94, 38, 95 were GREECE's top five traded commodities importing from China , with import values of 156.4896 million, 141.2094 million, 33.1062 million, 32.6520 million, 28.0615 million. These values account for 22.05%, 19.90%, 4.67%, 4.60%, 3.95% of GREECE's total imports and were up 89.29%, up 111.74%, up 86.07%, up 1046.72%, up 132.49% comparing with the same period of last year.

3.Analysis of import and export trends

Data Source: Eurostat