1.  Overview the trade of GREECE in goods current year until 202211

According to Dalian Infobank, in 202211, GREECE's exports and imports of goods amounted to 13498.6210 million, and were up 9.44% comparing with the same period of last year. Among these, exports were up 7.73% at 4835.1360 million, and imports were up 10.43% at 8663.4850 million. And the corresponding trade deficit was 3828.3490 million and up 14.03%.

During the current year until 202211, GREECE's total exports and imports of goods were 141954.7930 million and were up 26.18% comparing to the same period of last year. Among these, exports were 52547.8875 million and up 21.77%; imports were 89406.9056 million and up 28.92%. The total trade deficit was 36859.0181 million and up 40.70%.

If considering by country (region), GERMANY, ITALY, RUSSIA, CHINA, IRAQ were GREECE's top five trading partners. During the current year until 202211, GREECE's imports and exports to five countries/territories were 11721.9389 million, 11525.3756 million, 8965.4320 million, 8144.7396 million, 6828.7978 million. These values correspond to 8.26%, 8.12%, 6.32%, 5.74%, 4.81% of GREECE's imports and exports, and, respectively, were up 7.38%, up 11.33%, up 92.46%, up 32.08%, up 43.42% comparing to the same period of last year.

Current year until 202211, 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 202211, GREECE's exports to these five countries/territories were 5374.9429 million, 4049.1926 million, 3449.3853 million, 3123.0398 million, 2283.2306 million. These values correspond to 10.23%, 7.71%, 6.56%, 5.94%, 4.35% of GREECE's exports and, respectively, were up 23.69%, up 95.84%, up 7.95%, up 12.39%, up 3.75% comparing with the same period of last year.

Current year until 202211, 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 202211, GREECE's imports from these five countries/territories were 8811.6588 million, 8272.5536 million, 7746.0151 million, 6783.9219 million, 6150.4326 million. These values correspond to 9.86%, 9.25%, 8.66%, 7.59%, 6.88% of GREECE's total imports and, respectively, were up 98.36%, up 7.15%, up 43.40%, up 50.42%, up 2.39% comparing with the same period of last year.

During the current year until 202211, the trade surplus of GREECE was mainly from CYPRUS, LEBANON, BULGARIA, UNITED KINGDOM, GIBRALTAR at 2596.2557 million, 1435.9991 million, 1313.3793 million, 1245.0545 million, 1190.2587 million, and up 13.21%, up 25.17%, down 670.59%, up 82.51%, up 106.55%. And the trade deficits were mainly from RUSSIA, CHINA, IRAQ, GERMANY, NETHERLANDS at 8657.8857 million, 7347.2906 million, 6739.0460 million, 4823.1683 million, 3126.6472 million, and up 104.86%, up 58.46%, up 58.26%, up 6.58%, up 6.58%.

Current year until 202211, GREECE's trade surplus or deficit with top five countries/territories During the current year until 202211,  commodities with hs2 codes, 27, 85, 84, 30, 76, were GREECE's top five traded commodities. They correspond to the import and export values of 50728.0511 million, 7627.9306 million, 7613.7618 million, 6374.7186 million, 4856.6132 million, which were up 69.77%, up 17.33%, up 7.41%, down 11.19%, up 28.69% comparing with the same period of last year and account for 35.74%, 5.37%, 5.36%, 4.49%, 3.42% of GREECE's total imports and exports.

During the current year until 202211, 27, 76, 30, 85, 84 were GREECE's top five traded commodities, with total import and export values of 19352.1858 million, 2857.8280 million, 2470.1267 million, 2168.8888 million, 2153.6449 million. These values correspond to 36.83%, 5.44%, 4.70%, 4.13%, 4.10% of GREECE's total exports and, respectively, were up 59.67%, up 21.98%, down 22.94%, up 12.28%, up 15.91% comparing to the same period of last year.

During the current year until 202211, 27, 84, 85, 30, 87 were GREECE's top five traded commodities, with total import values of 31375.8653 million, 5460.1169 million, 5459.0418 million, 3904.5919 million, 3458.6309 million. These values correspond to 35.09%, 6.11%, 6.11%, 4.37%, 3.87% of GREECE's total exports and, respectively, were up 76.66%, up 4.39%, up 19.46%, down 1.72%, up 9.54% comparing to the same period of last year.

2. Current year until 202211, GREECE binational trade profile

According to Dalian Infobank, during the current year until 202211, GREECE-China binational exports and imports of goods amounted to 8144.7396 million and were up 32.08% comparing with the same period of last year. Among these, exports from GREECE to China were 398.7245 million and down 47.88%, imports from China to GREECE were 7746.0151 million and up 43.40%. The total binational trade deficit was 7347.2906 million and up 58.46%.

During the urrent year until 202211, 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 1882.8213 million, 1644.3724 million, 314.4532 million, 300.2935 million, 284.6179 million and makes up 23.12%, 20.19%, 3.86%, 3.69%, 3.49% of the total binational imports and exports. These values were also up 70.93%, up 30.06%, up 53.43%, up 9.79%, up 24.85% comparing to the same period last year.

During the current year until 202211, 25, 84, 27, 26, 30 were the top five traded commodities exported to China from GREECE, with export values of 87.5051 million, 62.9471 million, 59.1742 million, 52.1373 million, 41.5935 million. These values account for 21.95%, 15.79%, 14.84%, 13.08%, 10.43% of GREECE's total exports and were down 55.88%, down 29.01%, down 78.27%, down 3.37%, up 8.85% comparing to the same period of last year.

During the current year until 202211, 85, 84, 95, 94, 61 were GREECE's top five traded commodities importing from China , with import values of 1877.1881 million, 1581.4253 million, 314.2939 million, 299.7310 million, 284.4570 million. These values account for 24.23%, 20.42%, 4.06%, 3.87%, 3.67% of GREECE's total imports and were up 71.49%, up 34.52%, up 53.43%, up 9.96%, up 24.91% comparing with the same period of last year.

3.Analysis of import and export trends

Data Source: Eurostat