1.  Overview the trade of GREECE in goods current year until 202209

According to Dalian Infobank, in 202209, GREECE's exports and imports of goods amounted to 12933.5554 million, and were up 14.46% comparing with the same period of last year. Among these, exports were up 6.26% at 4680.8401 million, and imports were up 19.70% at 8252.7153 million. And the corresponding trade deficit was 3571.8752 million and up 43.47%.

During the current year until 202209, GREECE's total exports and imports of goods were 115013.9035 million and were up 29.49% comparing to the same period of last year. Among these, exports were 42991.0025 million and up 25.10%; imports were 72022.9010 million and up 32.26%. The total trade deficit was 29031.8986 million and up 44.51%.

If considering by country (region), GERMANY, ITALY, RUSSIA, CHINA, IRAQ were GREECE's top five trading partners. During the current year until 202209, GREECE's imports and exports to five countries/territories were 9620.3903 million, 9412.7541 million, 7276.9958 million, 6713.7822 million, 5546.0126 million. These values correspond to 8.36%, 8.18%, 6.33%, 5.84%, 4.82% of GREECE's imports and exports, and, respectively, were up 7.72%, up 15.01%, up 113.38%, up 32.80%, up 52.48% comparing to the same period of last year.

Current year until 202209, 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 202209, GREECE's exports to these five countries/territories were 4386.9904 million, 2991.9741 million, 2866.0792 million, 2526.1484 million, 1801.1468 million. These values correspond to 10.20%, 6.96%, 6.67%, 5.88%, 4.19% of GREECE's exports and, respectively, were up 27.27%, up 86.99%, up 10.79%, up 15.13%, up 25.54% comparing with the same period of last year.

Current year until 202209, 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 202209, GREECE's imports from these five countries/territories were 7177.8992 million, 6754.3110 million, 6428.0209 million, 5511.9725 million, 5025.7637 million. These values correspond to 9.97%, 9.38%, 8.92%, 7.65%, 6.98% of GREECE's total imports and, respectively, were up 121.31%, up 6.47%, up 47.29%, up 60.74%, up 6.09% comparing with the same period of last year.

During the current year until 202209, the trade surplus of GREECE was mainly from CYPRUS, LEBANON, UNITED KINGDOM, GIBRALTAR, THE REPUBLIC OF NORTH MACEDONIA at 2100.1331 million, 1240.5240 million, 1092.1069 million, 986.3846 million, 880.9198 million, and up 16.73%, up 45.46%, up 105.99%, up 94.75%, up 100.28%. And the trade deficits were mainly from RUSSIA, CHINA, IRAQ, GERMANY, NETHERLANDS at 7078.8026 million, 6142.2596 million, 5477.9325 million, 3888.2318 million, 2443.4606 million, and up 130.09%, up 67.24%, up 70.08%, up 3.49%, up 3.56%.

Current year until 202209, GREECE's trade surplus or deficit with top five countries/territories During the current year until 202209,  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 40395.2714 million, 6216.6060 million, 6073.6024 million, 5145.8738 million, 4109.5740 million, which were up 77.98%, up 7.56%, up 19.76%, down 13.66%, up 38.63% comparing with the same period of last year and account for 35.12%, 5.41%, 5.28%, 4.47%, 3.57% of GREECE's total imports and exports.

During the current year until 202209, 27, 76, 30, 84, 85 were GREECE's top five traded commodities, with total import and export values of 15903.1038 million, 2400.3526 million, 1944.2945 million, 1759.5676 million, 1709.9406 million. These values correspond to 36.99%, 5.58%, 4.52%, 4.09%, 3.98% of GREECE's total exports and, respectively, were up 68.88%, up 29.25%, down 27.04%, up 16.97%, up 11.04% comparing to the same period of last year.

During the current year until 202209, 27, 84, 85, 30, 87 were GREECE's top five traded commodities, with total import values of 24492.1676 million, 4457.0383 million, 4363.6618 million, 3201.5793 million, 2780.3014 million. These values correspond to 34.01%, 6.19%, 6.06%, 4.45%, 3.86% of GREECE's total exports and, respectively, were up 84.44%, up 4.25%, up 23.56%, down 2.84%, up 8.58% comparing to the same period of last year.

2. Current year until 202209, GREECE binational trade profile

According to Dalian Infobank, during the current year until 202209, GREECE-China binational exports and imports of goods amounted to 6713.7822 million and were up 32.80% comparing with the same period of last year. Among these, exports from GREECE to China were 285.7613 million and down 58.67%, imports from China to GREECE were 6428.0209 million and up 47.29%. The total binational trade deficit was 6142.2596 million and up 67.24%.

During the urrent year until 202209, 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 1480.8156 million, 1396.5320 million, 260.5079 million, 249.3028 million, 246.0492 million and makes up 22.06%, 20.80%, 3.88%, 3.71%, 3.66% of the total binational imports and exports. These values were also up 75.36%, up 31.89%, up 14.64%, up 34.45%, up 64.29% comparing to the same period last year.

During the current year until 202209, 25, 84, 26, 30, 04 were the top five traded commodities exported to China from GREECE, with export values of 75.1787 million, 54.3246 million, 43.3066 million, 33.8079 million, 17.7323 million. These values account for 26.31%, 19.01%, 15.15%, 11.83%, 6.21% of GREECE's total exports and were down 56.89%, down 28.22%, down 8.85%, up 20.98%, up 101.36% comparing to the same period of last year.

During the current year until 202209, 85, 84, 94, 61, 95 were GREECE's top five traded commodities importing from China , with import values of 1476.1045 million, 1342.2073 million, 260.0612 million, 249.1751 million, 245.9165 million. These values account for 22.96%, 20.88%, 4.05%, 3.88%, 3.83% of GREECE's total imports and were up 75.99%, up 36.52%, up 14.87%, up 34.49%, up 64.27% comparing with the same period of last year.

3.Analysis of import and export trends

Data Source: Eurostat