1.  Overview the trade of GREECE in goods current year until 202203

According to Dalian Infobank, in 202203, GREECE's exports and imports of goods amounted to 12569.4252 million, and were up 19.91% comparing with the same period of last year. Among these, exports were up 24.67% at 4970.5890 million, and imports were up 17.00% at 7598.8363 million. And the corresponding trade deficit was 2628.2473 million and up 4.79%.

During the current year until 202203, GREECE's total exports and imports of goods were 35516.1347 million and were up 32.26% comparing to the same period of last year. Among these, exports were 12993.7364 million and up 22.92%; imports were 22522.3984 million and up 38.33%. The total trade deficit was 9528.6620 million and up 66.84%.

If considering by country (region), GERMANY, ITALY, CHINA, RUSSIA, IRAQ were GREECE's top five trading partners. During the current year until 202203, GREECE's imports and exports to five countries/territories were 3366.7784 million, 3060.9966 million, 2140.4597 million, 1941.4912 million, 1683.4444 million. These values correspond to 9.48%, 8.62%, 6.03%, 5.47%, 4.74% of GREECE's imports and exports, and, respectively, were up 19.12%, up 27.87%, up 49.03%, up 108.78%, up 83.40% comparing to the same period of last year.

Current year until 202203, GREECE and the top five trade partners ITALY, GERMANY, CYPRUS, BULGARIA, TURKEY are the top five countries/territories that GREECE exports to in terms of the total export amount. During the current year until 202203, GREECE's exports to these five countries/territories were 1448.2389 million, 934.1340 million, 788.8823 million, 649.1975 million, 585.3187 million. These values correspond to 11.15%, 7.19%, 6.07%, 5.00%, 4.50% of GREECE's exports and, respectively, were up 43.61%, up 15.86%, up 24.27%, up 35.46%, up 20.99% comparing with the same period of last year.

Current year until 202203, 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 202203, GREECE's imports from these five countries/territories were 2432.6443 million, 2051.4013 million, 1902.8863 million, 1672.7326 million, 1612.7577 million. These values correspond to 10.80%, 9.11%, 8.45%, 7.43%, 7.16% of GREECE's total imports and, respectively, were up 20.42%, up 68.08%, up 115.99%, up 84.17%, up 16.42% comparing with the same period of last year.

During the current year until 202203, the trade surplus of GREECE was mainly from CYPRUS, LEBANON, GIBRALTAR, UNITED KINGDOM, THE REPUBLIC OF NORTH MACEDONIA at 653.8753 million, 404.3083 million, 307.9074 million, 284.4695 million, 249.6874 million, and up 29.23%, up 42.40%, up 34.03%, up 104.06%, up 105.82%. And the trade deficits were mainly from CHINA, RUSSIA, IRAQ, GERMANY, NETHERLANDS at 1962.3429 million, 1864.2815 million, 1662.0208 million, 1498.5103 million, 788.6477 million, and up 95.31%, up 124.05%, up 84.96%, up 23.45%, down 5.04%.

Current year until 202203, GREECE's trade surplus or deficit with top five countries/territories During the current year until 202203,  commodities with hs2 codes, 27, 84, 30, 85, 76, were GREECE's top five traded commodities. They correspond to the import and export values of 10755.8685 million, 2067.4867 million, 2041.8634 million, 1942.5155 million, 1355.5009 million, which were up 73.60%, up 20.70%, up 3.74%, up 24.32%, up 48.52% comparing with the same period of last year and account for 30.28%, 5.82%, 5.75%, 5.47%, 3.82% of GREECE's total imports and exports.

During the current year until 202203, 27, 76, 30, 84, 85 were GREECE's top five traded commodities, with total import and export values of 3859.2726 million, 768.2885 million, 761.1026 million, 660.6387 million, 549.5529 million. These values correspond to 29.70%, 5.91%, 5.86%, 5.08%, 4.23% of GREECE's total exports and, respectively, were up 49.47%, up 36.08%, down 20.32%, up 47.23%, up 20.64% comparing to the same period of last year.

During the current year until 202203, 27, 84, 85, 30, 87 were GREECE's top five traded commodities, with total import values of 6896.5959 million, 1406.8480 million, 1392.9626 million, 1280.7607 million, 876.2930 million. These values correspond to 30.62%, 6.25%, 6.18%, 5.69%, 3.89% of GREECE's total exports and, respectively, were up 90.84%, up 11.29%, up 25.84%, up 26.41%, up 0.91% comparing to the same period of last year.

2. Current year until 202203, GREECE binational trade profile

According to Dalian Infobank, during the current year until 202203, GREECE-China binational exports and imports of goods amounted to 2140.4597 million and were up 49.03% comparing with the same period of last year. Among these, exports from GREECE to China were 89.0584 million and down 58.72%, imports from China to GREECE were 2051.4013 million and up 68.08%. The total binational trade deficit was 1962.3429 million and up 95.31%.

During the urrent year until 202203, commodities with hs2 code, 85, 84, 94, 64, 95, were binational trade's top five traded commodities. They correspond to import and export values of 434.3009 million, 422.4414 million, 95.4978 million, 78.0481 million, 76.5907 million and makes up 20.29%, 19.74%, 4.46%, 3.65%, 3.58% of the total binational imports and exports. These values were also up 75.48%, up 44.80%, up 35.44%, up 44.29%, up 82.69% comparing to the same period last year.

During the current year until 202203, 25, 84, 30, 26, 04 were the top five traded commodities exported to China from GREECE, with export values of 22.4764 million, 20.0547 million, 13.2267 million, 10.7053 million, 5.5889 million. These values account for 25.24%, 22.52%, 14.85%, 12.02%, 6.28% of GREECE's total exports and were down 43.49%, down 23.18%, up 66.38%, down 37.21%, up 206.18% comparing to the same period of last year.

During the current year until 202203, 85, 84, 94, 64, 95 were GREECE's top five traded commodities importing from China , with import values of 433.0660 million, 402.3866 million, 95.2340 million, 78.0191 million, 76.5732 million. These values account for 21.11%, 19.62%, 4.64%, 3.80%, 3.73% of GREECE's total imports and were up 76.00%, up 51.48%, up 35.55%, up 44.32%, up 82.66% comparing with the same period of last year.

3.Analysis of import and export trends

Data Source: Eurostat