1.  Overview the trade of GREECE in goods current year until 202212

According to Dalian Infobank, in 202212, GREECE's exports and imports of goods amounted to 12704.5597 million, and were up 7.49% comparing with the same period of last year. Among these, exports were up 17.92% at 4793.7339 million, and imports were up 2.02% at 7910.8258 million. And the corresponding trade deficit was 3117.0919 million and down 15.50%.

During the current year until 202212, GREECE's total exports and imports of goods were 154771.9730 million and were up 24.49% comparing to the same period of last year. Among these, exports were 57395.9213 million and up 21.56%; imports were 97376.0517 million and up 26.29%. The total trade deficit was 39980.1304 million and up 33.77%.

If considering by country (region), GERMANY, ITALY, RUSSIA, CHINA, BULGARIA were GREECE's top five trading partners. During the current year until 202212, GREECE's imports and exports to five countries/territories were 12766.6315 million, 12680.6299 million, 9888.7434 million, 8731.3962 million, 7435.0361 million. These values correspond to 8.25%, 8.19%, 6.39%, 5.64%, 4.80% of GREECE's imports and exports, and, respectively, were up 6.93%, up 12.10%, up 86.52%, up 29.14%, up 53.71% comparing to the same period of last year.

Current year until 202212, 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 202212, GREECE's exports to these five countries/territories were 5991.9700 million, 4475.3899 million, 3721.7373 million, 3390.7761 million, 2626.3965 million. These values correspond to 10.44%, 7.80%, 6.48%, 5.91%, 4.58% of GREECE's exports and, respectively, were up 27.23%, up 93.32%, up 7.51%, up 11.98%, up 8.32% comparing with the same period of last year.

Current year until 202212, 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 202212, GREECE's imports from these five countries/territories were 9726.1853 million, 9044.8942 million, 8306.6223 million, 7128.8385 million, 6688.6599 million. These values correspond to 9.99%, 9.29%, 8.53%, 7.32%, 6.87% of GREECE's total imports and, respectively, were up 92.28%, up 6.70%, up 40.46%, up 46.10%, up 1.31% comparing with the same period of last year.

During the current year until 202212, the trade surplus of GREECE was mainly from CYPRUS, LEBANON, BULGARIA, UNITED KINGDOM, GIBRALTAR at 2808.1318 million, 1567.4327 million, 1515.7438 million, 1341.6396 million, 1278.0107 million, and up 13.06%, up 22.75%, down 832.65%, up 78.43%, up 105.87%. And the trade deficits were mainly from RUSSIA, CHINA, IRAQ, GERMANY, NETHERLANDS at 9563.6272 million, 7881.8483 million, 7079.8042 million, 5323.1569 million, 3433.7996 million, and up 98.63%, up 55.56%, up 53.15%, up 6.13%, up 5.87%.

Current year until 202212, GREECE's trade surplus or deficit with top five countries/territories During the current year until 202212,  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 54899.4240 million, 8413.5276 million, 8403.9414 million, 6902.1426 million, 5166.4697 million, which were up 65.27%, up 8.23%, up 15.73%, down 10.35%, up 25.85% comparing with the same period of last year and account for 35.47%, 5.44%, 5.43%, 4.46%, 3.34% of GREECE's total imports and exports.

During the current year until 202212, 27, 76, 30, 85, 84 were GREECE's top five traded commodities, with total import and export values of 21008.3504 million, 3048.7465 million, 2698.8567 million, 2419.4280 million, 2401.9751 million. These values correspond to 36.60%, 5.31%, 4.70%, 4.22%, 4.18% of GREECE's total exports and, respectively, were up 58.07%, up 20.22%, down 21.11%, up 13.16%, up 17.23% comparing to the same period of last year.

During the current year until 202212, 27, 84, 85, 30, 87 were GREECE's top five traded commodities, with total import values of 33891.0737 million, 6011.5525 million, 5984.5134 million, 4203.2860 million, 3802.4170 million. These values correspond to 34.80%, 6.17%, 6.15%, 4.32%, 3.90% of GREECE's total exports and, respectively, were up 70.07%, up 5.01%, up 16.81%, down 1.74%, up 10.11% comparing to the same period of last year.

2. Current year until 202212, GREECE binational trade profile

According to Dalian Infobank, during the current year until 202212, GREECE-China binational exports and imports of goods amounted to 8731.3962 million and were up 29.14% comparing with the same period of last year. Among these, exports from GREECE to China were 424.7740 million and down 49.86%, imports from China to GREECE were 8306.6223 million and up 40.46%. The total binational trade deficit was 7881.8483 million and up 55.56%.

During the urrent year until 202212, 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 2020.1284 million, 1772.0169 million, 333.8433 million, 318.5773 million, 296.1727 million and makes up 23.14%, 20.29%, 3.82%, 3.65%, 3.39% of the total binational imports and exports. These values were also up 62.83%, up 32.23%, up 45.57%, up 6.60%, up 21.15% comparing to the same period last year.

During the current year until 202212, 25, 84, 27, 26, 30 were the top five traded commodities exported to China from GREECE, with export values of 95.9075 million, 66.0810 million, 59.3832 million, 55.1642 million, 44.4367 million. These values account for 22.58%, 15.56%, 13.98%, 12.99%, 10.46% of GREECE's total exports and were down 54.06%, down 30.98%, down 81.20%, down 5.28%, up 8.06% comparing to the same period of last year.

During the current year until 202212, 85, 84, 95, 94, 61 were GREECE's top five traded commodities importing from China , with import values of 2014.1487 million, 1705.9359 million, 333.6579 million, 317.9183 million, 295.9958 million. These values account for 24.25%, 20.54%, 4.02%, 3.83%, 3.56% of GREECE's total imports and were up 63.51%, up 37.10%, up 45.58%, up 6.75%, up 21.21% comparing with the same period of last year.

3.Analysis of import and export trends

Data Source: Eurostat