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

According to Dalian Infobank, in 202209, GUATEMALA's exports and imports of goods amounted to 3882.3108 million, and were up 12.06% comparing with the same period of last year. Among these, exports were up 1.35% at 1204.4633 million, and imports were up 17.65% at 2677.8475 million. And the corresponding trade deficit was 1473.3842 million and up 35.46%.

During the current year until 202209, GUATEMALA's total exports and imports of goods were 36535.1648 million and were up 26.11% comparing to the same period of last year. Among these, exports were 12075.7621 million and up 19.82%; imports were 24459.4027 million and up 29.47%. The total trade deficit was 12383.6406 million and up 40.51%.

If considering by country (region), UNITED STATES, CHINA, MEXICO, EL SALVADOR, HONDURAS were GUATEMALA's top five trading partners. During the current year until 202209, GUATEMALA's imports and exports to five countries/territories were 12471.5071 million, 3675.5311 million, 3134.7670 million, 2714.6378 million, 1836.6556 million. These values correspond to 34.14%, 10.06%, 8.58%, 7.43%, 5.03% of GUATEMALA's imports and exports, and, respectively, were up 29.18%, up 26.68%, up 26.57%, up 21.48%, up 19.56% comparing to the same period of last year.

Current year until 202209, GUATEMALA and the top five trade partners UNITED STATES, EL SALVADOR, HONDURAS, NICARAGUA, NETHERLANDS are the top five countries/territories that GUATEMALA exports to in terms of the total export amount. During the current year until 202209, GUATEMALA's exports to these five countries/territories were 3842.1503 million, 1575.5221 million, 1172.2294 million, 760.7686 million, 524.8906 million. These values correspond to 31.82%, 13.05%, 9.71%, 6.30%, 4.35% of GUATEMALA's exports and, respectively, were up 20.71%, up 26.26%, up 15.73%, up 24.22%, up 90.04% comparing with the same period of last year.

Current year until 202209, 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 202209, GUATEMALA's imports from these five countries/territories were 8629.3568 million, 3359.8173 million, 2625.9923 million, 1139.1158 million, 724.8160 million. These values correspond to 35.28%, 13.74%, 10.74%, 4.66%, 2.96% of GUATEMALA's total imports and, respectively, were up 33.34%, up 27.79%, up 28.75%, up 15.43%, up 22.98% comparing with the same period of last year.

During the current year until 202209, the trade surplus of GUATEMALA was mainly from NICARAGUA, HONDURAS, EL SALVADOR, NETHERLANDS, DOMINICAN REPUBLIC at 570.6255 million, 507.8032 million, 436.4063 million, 348.1152 million, 161.3175 million, and up 17.09%, up 3.71%, up 67.23%, up 114.45%, up 42.14%. And the trade deficits were mainly from UNITED STATES, CHINA, MEXICO, COLOMBIA, INDIA at 4787.2066 million, 3044.1034 million, 2117.2177 million, 464.1069 million, 452.1703 million, and up 45.56%, up 29.15%, up 32.11%, up 44.36%, up 33.89%.

Current year until 202209, GUATEMALA's trade surplus or deficit with top five countries/territories During the current year until 202209,  commodities with hs2 codes, 27, 39, 84, 85, 87, were GUATEMALA's top five traded commodities. They correspond to the import and export values of 4821.6400 million, 1964.1207 million, 1831.6789 million, 1828.4166 million, 1622.1024 million, which were up 57.18%, up 23.49%, up 14.09%, up 19.20%, up 8.32% comparing with the same period of last year and account for 13.20%, 5.38%, 5.01%, 5.00%, 4.44% of GUATEMALA's total imports and exports.

During the current year until 202209, 09, 61, 08, 15, 17 were GUATEMALA's top five traded commodities, with total import and export values of 1386.4287 million, 1299.4081 million, 1069.3756 million, 903.5605 million, 742.9637 million. These values correspond to 11.48%, 10.76%, 8.86%, 7.48%, 6.15% of GUATEMALA's total exports and, respectively, were up 12.72%, up 24.95%, up 10.44%, up 43.57%, up 41.40% comparing to the same period of last year.

During the current year until 202209, 27, 85, 84, 87, 39 were GUATEMALA's top five traded commodities, with total import values of 4467.5805 million, 1765.1972 million, 1674.2097 million, 1570.9916 million, 1498.6479 million. These values correspond to 18.27%, 7.22%, 6.84%, 6.42%, 6.13% of GUATEMALA's total exports and, respectively, were up 59.28%, up 20.07%, up 12.76%, up 7.72%, up 23.07% comparing to the same period of last year.

2. Current year until 202209, GUATEMALA binational trade profile

According to Dalian Infobank, during the current year until 202209, GUATEMALA-China binational exports and imports of goods amounted to 3675.5311 million and were up 26.68% comparing with the same period of last year. Among these, exports from GUATEMALA to China were 315.7139 million and up 16.00%, imports from China to GUATEMALA were 3359.8173 million and up 27.79%. The total binational trade deficit was 3044.1034 million and up 29.15%.

During the urrent year until 202209, 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 504.8614 million, 366.4349 million, 355.7237 million, 304.5955 million, 274.7919 million and makes up 13.74%, 9.97%, 9.68%, 8.29%, 7.48% of the total binational imports and exports. These values were also up 10.16%, up 18.86%, up 20.01%, up 24.10%, up 68.79% comparing to the same period last year.

During the current year until 202209, 72, 17, 26, 09, 08 were the top five traded commodities exported to China from GUATEMALA, with export values of 182.4746 million, 47.7900 million, 36.7284 million, 28.8275 million, 6.8457 million. These values account for 57.80%, 15.14%, 11.63%, 9.13%, 2.17% of GUATEMALA's total exports and were up 13.33%, up 913.40%, up 94.74%, down 53.28%, down 52.24% comparing to the same period of last year.

During the current year until 202209, 85, 84, 72, 87, 39 were GUATEMALA's top five traded commodities importing from China , with import values of 366.3053 million, 355.6630 million, 322.3868 million, 304.5113 million, 274.7591 million. These values account for 10.90%, 10.59%, 9.60%, 9.06%, 8.18% of GUATEMALA's total imports and were up 18.82%, up 19.99%, up 8.45%, up 24.07%, up 68.84% comparing with the same period of last year.

3.Analysis of import and export trends

Data Source: National Statistics Institute