1.  Overview the trade of GREECE in goods current year until 202206

According to Dalian Infobank, in 202206, GREECE's exports and imports of goods amounted to 14463.5967 million, and were up 36.86% comparing with the same period of last year. Among these, exports were up 40.37% at 5733.4258 million, and imports were up 34.65% at 8730.1709 million. And the corresponding trade deficit was 2996.7452 million and up 24.91%.

During the current year until 202206, GREECE's total exports and imports of goods were 75955.1618 million and were up 32.86% comparing to the same period of last year. Among these, exports were 28347.6802 million and up 26.54%; imports were 47607.4816 million and up 36.93%. The total trade deficit was 19259.8015 million and up 55.76%.

If considering by country (region), GERMANY, ITALY, CHINA, RUSSIA, IRAQ were GREECE's top five trading partners. During the current year until 202206, GREECE's imports and exports to five countries/territories were 6584.3957 million, 6253.2280 million, 4381.3341 million, 3849.6532 million, 3752.2897 million. These values correspond to 8.67%, 8.23%, 5.77%, 5.07%, 4.94% of GREECE's imports and exports, and, respectively, were up 11.85%, up 19.81%, up 45.95%, up 86.11%, up 77.08% comparing to the same period of last year.

Current year until 202206, GREECE and the top five trade partners ITALY, GERMANY, BULGARIA, CYPRUS, UNITED STATES are the top five countries/territories that GREECE exports to in terms of the total export amount. During the current year until 202206, GREECE's exports to these five countries/territories were 2887.1022 million, 1949.2272 million, 1720.5790 million, 1705.8637 million, 1253.6850 million. These values correspond to 10.18%, 6.88%, 6.07%, 6.02%, 4.42% of GREECE's exports and, respectively, were up 34.37%, up 12.97%, up 67.55%, up 19.39%, up 43.00% comparing with the same period of last year.

Current year until 202206, 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 202206, GREECE's imports from these five countries/territories were 4635.1685 million, 4186.9308 million, 3783.3910 million, 3732.1173 million, 3366.1258 million. These values correspond to 9.74%, 8.79%, 7.95%, 7.84%, 7.07% of GREECE's total imports and, respectively, were up 11.39%, up 62.91%, up 92.59%, up 83.78%, up 9.62% comparing with the same period of last year.

During the current year until 202206, the trade surplus of GREECE was mainly from CYPRUS, LEBANON, GIBRALTAR, UNITED KINGDOM, THE REPUBLIC OF NORTH MACEDONIA at 1421.7426 million, 859.4968 million, 765.2327 million, 628.7912 million, 550.9845 million, and up 22.84%, up 34.84%, up 74.23%, up 119.03%, up 110.15%. And the trade deficits were mainly from CHINA, RUSSIA, IRAQ, GERMANY, NETHERLANDS at 3992.5274 million, 3717.1288 million, 3711.9448 million, 2685.9413 million, 1644.6570 million, and up 86.71%, up 99.80%, up 91.08%, up 10.27%, up 4.51%.

Current year until 202206, GREECE's trade surplus or deficit with top five countries/territories During the current year until 202206,  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 24984.7050 million, 4220.3401 million, 4045.3278 million, 3685.6779 million, 2894.3695 million, which were up 81.59%, up 12.98%, up 20.01%, down 8.07%, up 50.90% comparing with the same period of last year and account for 32.89%, 5.56%, 5.33%, 4.85%, 3.81% of GREECE's total imports and exports.

During the current year until 202206, 27, 76, 30, 84, 85 were GREECE's top five traded commodities, with total import and export values of 9823.3464 million, 1660.9756 million, 1427.0718 million, 1181.8917 million, 1163.3549 million. These values correspond to 34.65%, 5.86%, 5.03%, 4.17%, 4.10% of GREECE's total exports and, respectively, were up 69.04%, up 40.77%, down 21.85%, up 21.94%, up 12.12% comparing to the same period of last year.

During the current year until 202206, 27, 84, 85, 30, 87 were GREECE's top five traded commodities, with total import values of 15161.3586 million, 3038.4484 million, 2881.9729 million, 2258.6060 million, 1909.3646 million. These values correspond to 31.85%, 6.38%, 6.05%, 4.74%, 4.01% of GREECE's total exports and, respectively, were up 90.77%, up 9.84%, up 23.53%, up 3.47%, up 6.62% comparing to the same period of last year.

2. Current year until 202206, GREECE binational trade profile

According to Dalian Infobank, during the current year until 202206, GREECE-China binational exports and imports of goods amounted to 4381.3341 million and were up 45.95% comparing with the same period of last year. Among these, exports from GREECE to China were 194.4034 million and down 54.98%, imports from China to GREECE were 4186.9308 million and up 62.91%. The total binational trade deficit was 3992.5274 million and up 86.71%.

During the urrent year until 202206, commodities with hs2 code, 84, 85, 94, 48, 61, were binational trade's top five traded commodities. They correspond to import and export values of 1015.2005 million, 930.3241 million, 177.1344 million, 144.6828 million, 144.1827 million and makes up 23.17%, 21.23%, 4.04%, 3.30%, 3.29% of the total binational imports and exports. These values were also up 66.50%, up 71.42%, up 32.28%, up 201.89%, up 71.29% comparing to the same period last year.

During the current year until 202206, 25, 84, 30, 26, 04 were the top five traded commodities exported to China from GREECE, with export values of 50.5843 million, 39.2955 million, 27.1052 million, 25.3014 million, 12.6993 million. These values account for 26.02%, 20.21%, 13.94%, 13.01%, 6.53% of GREECE's total exports and were down 53.44%, down 30.61%, up 47.48%, down 25.58%, up 118.20% comparing to the same period of last year.

During the current year until 202206, 84, 85, 94, 48, 61 were GREECE's top five traded commodities importing from China , with import values of 975.9050 million, 927.9976 million, 176.7746 million, 144.6449 million, 144.0965 million. These values account for 23.31%, 22.16%, 4.22%, 3.45%, 3.44% of GREECE's total imports and were up 76.45%, up 72.32%, up 32.61%, up 202.27%, up 71.42% comparing with the same period of last year.

3.Analysis of import and export trends

Data Source: Eurostat