1.  Overview the trade of GREECE in goods current year until 202210

According to Dalian Infobank, in 202210, GREECE's exports and imports of goods amounted to 13325.7342 million, and were up 17.44% comparing with the same period of last year. Among these, exports were up 8.70% at 4672.6485 million, and imports were up 22.76% at 8653.0857 million. And the corresponding trade deficit was 3980.4372 million and up 44.74%.

During the current year until 202210, GREECE's total exports and imports of goods were 128364.9497 million and were up 28.15% comparing to the same period of last year. Among these, exports were 47691.8435 million and up 23.35%; imports were 80673.1062 million and up 31.17%. The total trade deficit was 32981.2628 million and up 44.40%.

If considering by country (region), GERMANY, ITALY, RUSSIA, CHINA, IRAQ were GREECE's top five trading partners. During the current year until 202210, GREECE's imports and exports to five countries/territories were 10638.6198 million, 10373.5126 million, 8214.2452 million, 7529.4666 million, 6201.3490 million. These values correspond to 8.29%, 8.08%, 6.40%, 5.87%, 4.83% of GREECE's imports and exports, and, respectively, were up 7.75%, up 12.63%, up 105.36%, up 34.28%, up 48.78% comparing to the same period of last year.

Current year until 202210, GREECE and the top five trade partners ITALY, BULGARIA, GERMANY, CYPRUS, TURKEY are the top five countries/territories that GREECE exports to in terms of the total export amount. During the current year until 202210, GREECE's exports to these five countries/territories were 4840.8300 million, 3452.1369 million, 3166.2048 million, 2810.7180 million, 2016.2000 million. These values correspond to 10.15%, 7.24%, 6.64%, 5.89%, 4.23% of GREECE's exports and, respectively, were up 25.64%, up 89.53%, up 8.94%, up 13.00%, up 7.52% comparing with the same period of last year.

Current year until 202210, 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 202210, GREECE's imports from these five countries/territories were 8071.5951 million, 7472.4150 million, 7156.4992 million, 6161.8270 million, 5532.6826 million. These values correspond to 10.01%, 9.26%, 8.87%, 7.64%, 6.86% of GREECE's total imports and, respectively, were up 111.86%, up 7.25%, up 46.76%, up 55.85%, up 3.28% comparing with the same period of last year.

During the current year until 202210, the trade surplus of GREECE was mainly from CYPRUS, LEBANON, UNITED KINGDOM, GIBRALTAR, THE REPUBLIC OF NORTH MACEDONIA at 2338.4550 million, 1394.7840 million, 1177.5924 million, 1119.0170 million, 969.7146 million, and up 14.04%, up 31.34%, up 98.66%, up 110.34%, up 85.20%. And the trade deficits were mainly from RUSSIA, CHINA, IRAQ, GERMANY, NETHERLANDS at 7928.9451 million, 6783.5317 million, 6122.3049 million, 4306.2102 million, 2784.9488 million, and up 119.05%, up 63.64%, up 63.72%, up 6.04%, up 7.03%.

Current year until 202210, GREECE's trade surplus or deficit with top five countries/territories During the current year until 202210,  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 45627.6243 million, 6875.8812 million, 6870.8566 million, 5763.5740 million, 4489.3748 million, which were up 75.27%, up 6.97%, up 20.34%, down 12.42%, up 34.00% comparing with the same period of last year and account for 35.55%, 5.36%, 5.35%, 4.49%, 3.50% of GREECE's total imports and exports.

During the current year until 202210, 27, 76, 30, 85, 84 were GREECE's top five traded commodities, with total import and export values of 17733.1269 million, 2633.0223 million, 2207.5262 million, 1945.1865 million, 1928.0959 million. These values correspond to 37.18%, 5.52%, 4.63%, 4.08%, 4.04% of GREECE's total exports and, respectively, were up 64.66%, up 25.90%, down 25.19%, up 12.61%, up 16.86% comparing to the same period of last year.

During the current year until 202210, 27, 84, 85, 30, 87 were GREECE's top five traded commodities, with total import values of 27894.4974 million, 4947.7854 million, 4925.6701 million, 3556.0477 million, 3104.9884 million. These values correspond to 34.58%, 6.13%, 6.11%, 4.41%, 3.85% of GREECE's total exports and, respectively, were up 82.76%, up 3.55%, up 23.69%, down 2.04%, up 9.30% comparing to the same period of last year.

2. Current year until 202210, GREECE binational trade profile

According to Dalian Infobank, during the current year until 202210, GREECE-China binational exports and imports of goods amounted to 7529.4666 million and were up 34.28% comparing with the same period of last year. Among these, exports from GREECE to China were 372.9675 million and down 48.98%, imports from China to GREECE were 7156.4992 million and up 46.76%. The total binational trade deficit was 6783.5317 million and up 63.64%.

During the urrent year until 202210, commodities with hs2 code, 85, 84, 95, 94, 61, were binational trade's top five traded commodities. They correspond to import and export values of 1720.5331 million, 1544.2247 million, 282.8542 million, 280.1707 million, 268.8589 million and makes up 22.85%, 20.51%, 3.76%, 3.72%, 3.57% of the total binational imports and exports. These values were also up 79.15%, up 30.49%, up 62.79%, up 12.16%, up 29.02% comparing to the same period last year.

During the current year until 202210, 25, 27, 84, 26, 30 were the top five traded commodities exported to China from GREECE, with export values of 80.4327 million, 58.9210 million, 58.3480 million, 49.0884 million, 38.4184 million. These values account for 21.57%, 15.80%, 15.64%, 13.16%, 10.30% of GREECE's total exports and were down 56.93%, down 78.34%, down 27.66%, down 6.25%, up 12.27% comparing to the same period of last year.

During the current year until 202210, 85, 84, 95, 94, 61 were GREECE's top five traded commodities importing from China , with import values of 1715.2691 million, 1485.8767 million, 282.7215 million, 279.6084 million, 268.7205 million. These values account for 23.97%, 20.76%, 3.95%, 3.91%, 3.75% of GREECE's total imports and were up 79.77%, up 34.75%, up 62.78%, up 12.35%, up 29.05% comparing with the same period of last year.

3.Analysis of import and export trends

Data Source: Eurostat