1.  Overview the trade of GREECE in goods current year until 202202

According to Dalian Infobank, in 202202, GREECE's exports and imports of goods amounted to 11818.3607 million, and were up 40.23% comparing with the same period of last year. Among these, exports were up 17.61% at 4135.0086 million, and imports were up 56.41% at 7683.3522 million. And the corresponding trade deficit was 3548.3436 million and up 154.08%.

During the current year until 202202, GREECE's total exports and imports of goods were 22922.0938 million and were up 40.02% comparing to the same period of last year. Among these, exports were 8010.4788 million and up 21.68%; imports were 14911.6150 million and up 52.36%. The total trade deficit was 6901.1362 million and up 115.43%.

If considering by country (region), GERMANY, ITALY, CHINA, RUSSIA, IRAQ were GREECE's top five trading partners. During the current year until 202202, GREECE's imports and exports to five countries/territories were 2171.9168 million, 1908.9371 million, 1423.0954 million, 1348.2081 million, 1230.1509 million. These values correspond to 9.48%, 8.33%, 6.21%, 5.88%, 5.37% of GREECE's imports and exports, and, respectively, were up 27.52%, up 33.56%, up 63.34%, up 151.53%, up 128.30% comparing to the same period of last year.

Current year until 202202, 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 202202, GREECE's exports to these five countries/territories were 899.0788 million, 571.9246 million, 467.2121 million, 403.6972 million, 396.4951 million. These values correspond to 11.22%, 7.14%, 5.83%, 5.04%, 4.95% of GREECE's exports and, respectively, were up 45.21%, up 10.85%, up 18.22%, up 25.87%, up 31.13% comparing with the same period of last year.

Current year until 202202, GREECE's exports to top five countries/territories GERMANY, CHINA, RUSSIA, IRAQ, ITALY are the top five countries/territories that GREECE imports from in terms of the total export amount. During the current year until 202202, GREECE's imports from these five countries/territories were 1599.9922 million, 1369.8402 million, 1315.5772 million, 1224.0637 million, 1009.8582 million. These values correspond to 10.73%, 9.19%, 8.82%, 8.21%, 6.77% of GREECE's total imports and, respectively, were up 34.76%, up 82.37%, up 159.96%, up 129.96%, up 24.65% comparing with the same period of last year.

During the current year until 202202, the trade surplus of GREECE was mainly from CYPRUS, LEBANON, GIBRALTAR, UNITED KINGDOM, ROMANIA at 383.9647 million, 275.1029 million, 188.2204 million, 151.2920 million, 142.3632 million, and up 21.51%, up 83.25%, up 41.89%, up 81.28%, up 38.71%. And the trade deficits were mainly from CHINA, RUSSIA, IRAQ, GERMANY, KAZAKHSTAN at 1316.5850 million, 1282.9463 million, 1217.9764 million, 1028.0676 million, 584.5968 million, and up 108.64%, up 169.45%, up 131.67%, up 53.14%, up 74.28%.

Current year until 202202, GREECE's trade surplus or deficit with top five countries/territories During the current year until 202202,  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 7126.7859 million, 1355.7704 million, 1280.3952 million, 1264.1638 million, 835.1942 million, which were up 90.54%, up 8.34%, up 21.21%, up 36.29%, up 33.24% comparing with the same period of last year and account for 31.09%, 5.91%, 5.59%, 5.52%, 3.64% of GREECE's total imports and exports.

During the current year until 202202, 27, 30, 76, 84, 85 were GREECE's top five traded commodities, with total import and export values of 2232.4670 million, 468.6687 million, 466.4067 million, 421.5695 million, 344.2740 million. These values correspond to 27.87%, 5.85%, 5.82%, 5.26%, 4.30% of GREECE's total exports and, respectively, were up 42.50%, down 24.76%, up 32.12%, up 44.86%, up 26.73% comparing to the same period of last year.

During the current year until 202202, 27, 85, 30, 84, 87 were GREECE's top five traded commodities, with total import values of 4894.3190 million, 919.8898 million, 887.1016 million, 858.8257 million, 570.8209 million. These values correspond to 32.82%, 6.17%, 5.95%, 5.76%, 3.83% of GREECE's total exports and, respectively, were up 125.17%, up 40.25%, up 41.14%, up 12.22%, up 12.23% comparing to the same period of last year.

2. Current year until 202202, GREECE binational trade profile

According to Dalian Infobank, during the current year until 202202, GREECE-China binational exports and imports of goods amounted to 1423.0954 million and were up 63.34% comparing with the same period of last year. Among these, exports from GREECE to China were 53.2552 million and down 55.66%, imports from China to GREECE were 1369.8402 million and up 82.37%. The total binational trade deficit was 1316.5850 million and up 108.64%.

During the urrent year until 202202, commodities with hs2 code, 85, 84, 94, 95, 64, were binational trade's top five traded commodities. They correspond to import and export values of 297.5497 million, 274.5529 million, 62.1239 million, 51.9943 million, 51.6897 million and makes up 20.91%, 19.29%, 4.37%, 3.65%, 3.63% of the total binational imports and exports. These values were also up 126.36%, up 46.69%, up 62.22%, up 105.31%, up 40.16% comparing to the same period last year.

During the current year until 202202, 25, 84, 30, 26, 04 were the top five traded commodities exported to China from GREECE, with export values of 13.2714 million, 12.7370 million, 7.7015 million, 5.3421 million, 3.8820 million. These values account for 24.92%, 23.92%, 14.46%, 10.03%, 7.29% of GREECE's total exports and were down 40.50%, down 20.12%, up 8.22%, down 50.97%, up 715.93% comparing to the same period of last year.

During the current year until 202202, 85, 84, 94, 95, 64 were GREECE's top five traded commodities importing from China , with import values of 296.6814 million, 261.8159 million, 61.9782 million, 51.9768 million, 51.6704 million. These values account for 21.66%, 19.11%, 4.52%, 3.79%, 3.77% of GREECE's total imports and were up 127.15%, up 52.91%, up 62.13%, up 105.25%, up 40.16% comparing with the same period of last year.

3.Analysis of import and export trends

Data Source: Eurostat