1.  Overview the trade of GREECE in goods current year until 202208

According to Dalian Infobank, in 202208, GREECE's exports and imports of goods amounted to 12638.4524 million, and were up 36.73% comparing with the same period of last year. Among these, exports were up 46.70% at 4851.3249 million, and imports were up 31.18% at 7787.1275 million. And the corresponding trade deficit was 2935.8027 million and up 11.65%.

During the current year until 202208, GREECE's total exports and imports of goods were 101923.3984 million and were up 31.50% comparing to the same period of last year. Among these, exports were 38256.3732 million and up 27.79%; imports were 63667.0252 million and up 33.84%. The total trade deficit was 25410.6521 million and up 44.11%.

If considering by country (region), GERMANY, ITALY, RUSSIA, CHINA, IRAQ were GREECE's top five trading partners. During the current year until 202208, GREECE's imports and exports to five countries/territories were 8468.6577 million, 8293.3359 million, 6157.6287 million, 5977.9536 million, 5008.0478 million. These values correspond to 8.31%, 8.14%, 6.04%, 5.87%, 4.91% of GREECE's imports and exports, and, respectively, were up 8.78%, up 18.11%, up 103.28%, up 37.72%, up 59.23% comparing to the same period of last year.

Current year until 202208, GREECE and the top five trade partners ITALY, BULGARIA, GERMANY, 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 202208, GREECE's exports to these five countries/territories were 3895.9960 million, 2613.0696 million, 2543.3964 million, 2247.4143 million, 1607.2979 million. These values correspond to 10.18%, 6.83%, 6.65%, 5.87%, 4.20% of GREECE's exports and, respectively, were up 31.88%, up 89.01%, up 10.31%, up 18.03%, up 30.33% comparing with the same period of last year.

Current year until 202208, GREECE's exports to top five countries/territories RUSSIA, GERMANY, CHINA, IRAQ, ITALY are the top five countries/territories that GREECE imports from in terms of the total export amount. During the current year until 202208, GREECE's imports from these five countries/territories were 6073.3052 million, 5925.2613 million, 5723.7993 million, 4977.3629 million, 4397.3398 million. These values correspond to 9.54%, 9.31%, 8.99%, 7.82%, 6.91% of GREECE's total imports and, respectively, were up 110.29%, up 8.14%, up 52.33%, up 67.40%, up 8.11% comparing with the same period of last year.

During the current year until 202208, the trade surplus of GREECE was mainly from CYPRUS, LEBANON, GIBRALTAR, UNITED KINGDOM, THE REPUBLIC OF NORTH MACEDONIA at 1870.8884 million, 1107.2198 million, 961.6820 million, 952.5199 million, 830.4033 million, and up 20.47%, up 44.55%, up 98.95%, up 116.42%, up 117.58%. And the trade deficits were mainly from RUSSIA, CHINA, IRAQ, GERMANY, KAZAKHSTAN at 5988.9817 million, 5469.6450 million, 4946.6780 million, 3381.8650 million, 2193.1095 million, and up 118.02%, up 72.30%, up 76.59%, up 6.56%, up 36.66%.

Current year until 202208, GREECE's trade surplus or deficit with top five countries/territories During the current year until 202208,  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 35580.9128 million, 5514.9116 million, 5323.2894 million, 4557.3773 million, 3713.5263 million, which were up 82.29%, up 8.06%, up 20.11%, down 13.06%, up 43.31% comparing with the same period of last year and account for 34.91%, 5.41%, 5.22%, 4.47%, 3.64% of GREECE's total imports and exports.

During the current year until 202208, 27, 76, 30, 84, 85 were GREECE's top five traded commodities, with total import and export values of 14182.8722 million, 2148.2478 million, 1748.6705 million, 1580.1098 million, 1509.1330 million. These values correspond to 37.07%, 5.62%, 4.57%, 4.13%, 3.94% of GREECE's total exports and, respectively, were up 76.92%, up 34.18%, down 25.96%, up 18.09%, up 11.55% comparing to the same period of last year.

During the current year until 202208, 27, 84, 85, 30, 87 were GREECE's top five traded commodities, with total import values of 21398.0406 million, 3934.8017 million, 3814.1564 million, 2808.7068 million, 2479.4378 million. These values correspond to 33.61%, 6.18%, 5.99%, 4.41%, 3.89% of GREECE's total exports and, respectively, were up 86.03%, up 4.49%, up 23.88%, down 2.48%, up 8.46% comparing to the same period of last year.

2. Current year until 202208, GREECE binational trade profile

According to Dalian Infobank, during the current year until 202208, GREECE-China binational exports and imports of goods amounted to 5977.9536 million and were up 37.72% comparing with the same period of last year. Among these, exports from GREECE to China were 254.1543 million and down 56.42%, imports from China to GREECE were 5723.7993 million and up 52.33%. The total binational trade deficit was 5469.6450 million and up 72.30%.

During the urrent year until 202208, commodities with hs2 code, 85, 84, 94, 61, 95, were binational trade's top five traded commodities. They correspond to import and export values of 1286.3809 million, 1263.6079 million, 232.7244 million, 220.8308 million, 208.7324 million and makes up 21.52%, 21.14%, 3.89%, 3.69%, 3.49% of the total binational imports and exports. These values were also up 75.65%, up 35.39%, up 20.15%, up 51.87%, up 64.68% comparing to the same period last year.

During the current year until 202208, 25, 84, 26, 30, 04 were the top five traded commodities exported to China from GREECE, with export values of 66.8087 million, 50.2364 million, 36.1513 million, 31.0570 million, 15.5455 million. These values account for 26.29%, 19.77%, 14.22%, 12.22%, 6.12% of GREECE's total exports and were down 56.40%, down 28.21%, down 13.41%, up 27.40%, up 85.42% comparing to the same period of last year.

During the current year until 202208, 85, 84, 94, 61, 95 were GREECE's top five traded commodities importing from China , with import values of 1282.4978 million, 1213.3715 million, 232.3118 million, 220.7165 million, 208.6292 million. These values account for 22.41%, 21.20%, 4.06%, 3.86%, 3.64% of GREECE's total imports and were up 76.36%, up 40.54%, up 20.45%, up 51.94%, up 64.67% comparing with the same period of last year.

3.Analysis of import and export trends

Data Source: Eurostat