1.  Overview the trade of GUATEMALA in goods current year until 202109

According to Dalian Infobank, in 202109, GUATEMALA's exports and imports of goods amounted to 3454.7294 million, and were up 44.59% comparing with the same period of last year. Among these, exports were up 31.93% at 1179.7808 million, and imports were up 52.17% at 2274.9486 million. And the corresponding trade deficit was 1095.1678 million and up 82.31%.

During the current year until 202109, GUATEMALA's total exports and imports of goods were 28952.3834 million and were up 35.17% comparing to the same period of last year. Among these, exports were 10062.2421 million and up 20.53%; imports were 18890.1413 million and up 44.51%. The total trade deficit was 8827.8992 million and up 86.88%.

If considering by country (region), UNITED STATES, CHINA, MEXICO, EL SALVADOR, HONDURAS were GUATEMALA's top five trading partners. During the current year until 202109, GUATEMALA's imports and exports to five countries/territories were 9643.4435 million, 2900.6383 million, 2476.5668 million, 2234.6621 million, 1536.1707 million. These values correspond to 33.31%, 10.02%, 8.55%, 7.72%, 5.31% of GUATEMALA's imports and exports, and, respectively, were up 36.72%, up 64.14%, up 32.69%, up 36.41%, up 39.55% comparing to the same period of last year.

Current year until 202109, GUATEMALA and the top five trade partners UNITED STATES, EL SALVADOR, HONDURAS, NICARAGUA, MEXICO are the top five countries/territories that GUATEMALA exports to in terms of the total export amount. During the current year until 202109, GUATEMALA's exports to these five countries/territories were 3171.9158 million, 1247.7941 million, 1012.9025 million, 612.4448 million, 436.9016 million. These values correspond to 31.52%, 12.40%, 10.07%, 6.09%, 4.34% of GUATEMALA's exports and, respectively, were up 21.17%, up 31.87%, up 37.75%, up 26.70%, up 29.51% comparing with the same period of last year.

Current year until 202109, GUATEMALA's exports to top five countries/territories UNITED STATES, CHINA, MEXICO, EL SALVADOR, COSTA RICA are the top five countries/territories that GUATEMALA imports from in terms of the total export amount. During the current year until 202109, GUATEMALA's imports from these five countries/territories were 6471.5277 million, 2628.8008 million, 2039.6652 million, 986.8680 million, 589.4329 million. These values correspond to 34.26%, 13.92%, 10.80%, 5.22%, 3.12% of GUATEMALA's total imports and, respectively, were up 45.89%, up 63.64%, up 33.39%, up 42.61%, up 19.24% comparing with the same period of last year.

During the current year until 202109, the trade surplus of GUATEMALA was mainly from HONDURAS, NICARAGUA, EL SALVADOR, NETHERLANDS, DOMINICAN REPUBLIC at 489.6344 million, 487.3330 million, 260.9261 million, 159.3106 million, 114.8464 million, and up 32.39%, up 28.96%, up 2.64%, down 8.33%, up 27.07%. And the trade deficits were mainly from UNITED STATES, CHINA, MEXICO, INDIA, COLOMBIA at 3299.6118 million, 2356.9634 million, 1602.7636 million, 337.6894 million, 320.8251 million, and up 81.49%, up 63.04%, up 34.49%, up 76.69%, up 14.98%.

Current year until 202109, GUATEMALA's trade surplus or deficit with top five countries/territories During the current year until 202109,  commodities with hs2 codes, 27, 84, 39, 85, 87, were GUATEMALA's top five traded commodities. They correspond to the import and export values of 3068.4000 million, 1606.3570 million, 1590.9291 million, 1533.9366 million, 1497.6103 million, which were up 77.64%, up 52.76%, up 52.13%, up 32.95%, up 73.80% comparing with the same period of last year and account for 10.60%, 5.55%, 5.49%, 5.30%, 5.17% of GUATEMALA's total imports and exports.

During the current year until 202109, 09, 61, 08, 15, 17 were GUATEMALA's top five traded commodities, with total import and export values of 1230.6590 million, 1040.3505 million, 947.1698 million, 627.6295 million, 525.7061 million. These values correspond to 12.23%, 10.34%, 9.41%, 6.24%, 5.22% of GUATEMALA's total exports and, respectively, were up 0.32%, up 37.74%, up 0.74%, up 64.44%, down 7.75% comparing to the same period of last year.

During the current year until 202109, 27, 84, 85, 87, 39 were GUATEMALA's top five traded commodities, with total import values of 2804.0117 million, 1484.7508 million, 1470.1955 million, 1458.2761 million, 1217.8481 million. These values correspond to 14.84%, 7.86%, 7.78%, 7.72%, 6.45% of GUATEMALA's total exports and, respectively, were up 83.68%, up 50.69%, up 33.25%, up 74.54%, up 55.83% comparing to the same period of last year.

2. Current year until 202109, GUATEMALA binational trade profile

According to Dalian Infobank, during the current year until 202109, GUATEMALA-China binational exports and imports of goods amounted to 2900.6383 million and were up 64.14% comparing with the same period of last year. Among these, exports from GUATEMALA to China were 271.8375 million and up 69.06%, imports from China to GUATEMALA were 2628.8008 million and up 63.64%. The total binational trade deficit was 2356.9634 million and up 63.04%.

During the urrent year until 202109, commodities with hs2 code, 72, 85, 84, 87, 39, were binational trade's top five traded commodities. They correspond to import and export values of 458.1663 million, 308.2976 million, 296.4997 million, 245.3773 million, 162.8038 million and makes up 15.80%, 10.63%, 10.22%, 8.46%, 5.61% of the total binational imports and exports. These values were also up 87.32%, up 69.31%, up 86.14%, up 103.11%, up 105.10% comparing to the same period last year.

During the current year until 202109, 72, 09, 26, 08, 61 were the top five traded commodities exported to China from GUATEMALA, with export values of 160.9970 million, 61.7955 million, 18.8915 million, 13.7821 million, 5.1995 million. These values account for 59.23%, 22.73%, 6.95%, 5.07%, 1.91% of GUATEMALA's total exports and were up 39.98%, up 246.78%, up 237.45%, up 80.97%, up 118.24% comparing to the same period of last year.

During the current year until 202109, 85, 72, 84, 87, 39 were GUATEMALA's top five traded commodities importing from China , with import values of 308.2969 million, 297.1692 million, 296.3980 million, 245.3768 million, 162.7332 million. These values account for 11.73%, 11.30%, 11.28%, 9.33%, 6.19% of GUATEMALA's total imports and were up 69.31%, up 129.33%, up 86.08%, up 103.15%, up 105.46% comparing with the same period of last year.

3.Analysis of import and export trends

Data Source: National Statistics Institute