1.  Overview the trade of GREECE in goods current year until 202205

According to Dalian Infobank, in 202205, GREECE's exports and imports of goods amounted to 13386.6966 million, and were up 35.23% comparing with the same period of last year. Among these, exports were up 28.67% at 5056.9308 million, and imports were up 39.55% at 8329.7658 million. And the corresponding trade deficit was 3272.8349 million and up 60.53%.

During the current year until 202205, GREECE's total exports and imports of goods were 60954.2047 million and were up 30.80% comparing to the same period of last year. Among these, exports were 22543.0023 million and up 23.07%; imports were 38411.2023 million and up 35.81%. The total trade deficit was 15868.2000 million and up 59.23%.

If considering by country (region), GERMANY, ITALY, CHINA, RUSSIA, IRAQ were GREECE's top five trading partners. During the current year until 202205, GREECE's imports and exports to five countries/territories were 5362.1692 million, 5126.8215 million, 3650.3030 million, 3155.8272 million, 3051.2768 million. These values correspond to 8.80%, 8.41%, 5.99%, 5.18%, 5.01% of GREECE's imports and exports, and, respectively, were up 13.04%, up 21.67%, up 48.74%, up 92.07%, up 73.50% comparing to the same period of last year.

Current year until 202205, GREECE and the top five trade partners ITALY, GERMANY, CYPRUS, BULGARIA, SPAIN are the top five countries/territories that GREECE exports to in terms of the total export amount. During the current year until 202205, GREECE's exports to these five countries/territories were 2362.8054 million, 1583.8679 million, 1381.8030 million, 1222.4871 million, 981.6686 million. These values correspond to 10.48%, 7.03%, 6.13%, 5.42%, 4.35% of GREECE's exports and, respectively, were up 32.86%, up 12.43%, up 19.62%, up 45.88%, up 95.28% comparing with the same period of last year.

Current year until 202205, 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 202205, GREECE's imports from these five countries/territories were 3778.3013 million, 3491.2939 million, 3102.9839 million, 3034.6705 million, 2764.0161 million. These values correspond to 9.84%, 9.09%, 8.08%, 7.90%, 7.20% of GREECE's total imports and, respectively, were up 13.30%, up 64.21%, up 98.91%, up 80.89%, up 13.50% comparing with the same period of last year.

During the current year until 202205, the trade surplus of GREECE was mainly from CYPRUS, LEBANON, GIBRALTAR, UNITED KINGDOM, THE REPUBLIC OF NORTH MACEDONIA at 1152.3326 million, 672.2034 million, 633.8960 million, 479.5680 million, 417.3374 million, and up 23.23%, up 36.51%, up 67.81%, up 108.91%, up 95.06%. And the trade deficits were mainly from CHINA, RUSSIA, IRAQ, GERMANY, NETHERLANDS at 3332.2848 million, 3050.1405 million, 3018.0642 million, 2194.4335 million, 1357.2370 million, and up 85.31%, up 106.52%, up 89.02%, up 13.93%, up 0.68%.

Current year until 202205, GREECE's trade surplus or deficit with top five countries/territories During the current year until 202205,  commodities with hs2 codes, 27, 84, 85, 30, 76, were GREECE's top five traded commodities. They correspond to the import and export values of 19222.1554 million, 3572.1295 million, 3297.3763 million, 3112.3459 million, 2372.8212 million, which were up 70.56%, up 20.60%, up 22.06%, down 5.93%, up 51.24% comparing with the same period of last year and account for 31.54%, 5.86%, 5.41%, 5.11%, 3.89% of GREECE's total imports and exports.

During the current year until 202205, 27, 76, 30, 84, 85 were GREECE's top five traded commodities, with total import and export values of 7302.9316 million, 1370.3674 million, 1176.9127 million, 1014.8422 million, 941.3678 million. These values correspond to 32.40%, 6.08%, 5.22%, 4.50%, 4.18% of GREECE's total exports and, respectively, were up 53.73%, up 42.05%, down 22.88%, up 26.42%, up 19.10% comparing to the same period of last year.

During the current year until 202205, 27, 84, 85, 30, 87 were GREECE's top five traded commodities, with total import values of 11919.2239 million, 2557.2873 million, 2356.0085 million, 1935.4332 million, 1551.5051 million. These values correspond to 31.03%, 6.66%, 6.13%, 5.04%, 4.04% of GREECE's total exports and, respectively, were up 82.82%, up 18.43%, up 23.29%, up 8.58%, up 4.02% comparing to the same period of last year.

2. Current year until 202205, GREECE binational trade profile

According to Dalian Infobank, during the current year until 202205, GREECE-China binational exports and imports of goods amounted to 3650.3030 million and were up 48.74% comparing with the same period of last year. Among these, exports from GREECE to China were 159.0091 million and down 51.51%, imports from China to GREECE were 3491.2939 million and up 64.21%. The total binational trade deficit was 3332.2848 million and up 85.31%.

During the urrent year until 202205, commodities with hs2 code, 84, 85, 94, 39, 95, were binational trade's top five traded commodities. They correspond to import and export values of 891.8784 million, 758.8383 million, 150.8984 million, 117.6368 million, 117.5893 million and makes up 24.43%, 20.79%, 4.13%, 3.22%, 3.22% of the total binational imports and exports. These values were also up 73.72%, up 64.79%, up 32.37%, up 42.18%, up 61.46% comparing to the same period last year.

During the current year until 202205, 25, 84, 30, 26, 04 were the top five traded commodities exported to China from GREECE, with export values of 40.8888 million, 31.9549 million, 22.0235 million, 20.5427 million, 10.3515 million. These values account for 25.71%, 20.10%, 13.85%, 12.92%, 6.51% of GREECE's total exports and were down 49.20%, down 37.62%, up 47.98%, down 32.03%, up 121.63% comparing to the same period of last year.

During the current year until 202205, 84, 85, 94, 95, 39 were GREECE's top five traded commodities importing from China , with import values of 859.9235 million, 757.0485 million, 150.6286 million, 117.5031 million, 115.1597 million. These values account for 24.63%, 21.68%, 4.31%, 3.37%, 3.30% of GREECE's total imports and were up 86.06%, up 65.47%, up 32.74%, up 61.36%, up 43.23% comparing with the same period of last year.

3.Analysis of import and export trends

Data Source: Eurostat