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

According to Dalian Infobank, in 202109, SLOVAKIA's exports and imports of goods amounted to 16103.1857 million, and were down 3.82% comparing with the same period of last year. Among these, exports were down 11.01% at 7777.9004 million, and imports were up 4.04% at 8325.2852 million. And the corresponding trade deficit was 547.3848 million and down 174.12%.

During the current year until 202109, SLOVAKIA's total exports and imports of goods were 151762.1670 million and were up 26.44% comparing to the same period of last year. Among these, exports were 75958.7644 million and up 25.14%; imports were 75803.4026 million and up 27.76%. The total trade surplus was 155.3618 million and down 88.63%.

If considering by country (region), GERMANY, CZECH REPUBLIC, INTRA-EU, POLAND, AUSTRIA were SLOVAKIA's top five trading partners. During the current year until 202109, SLOVAKIA's imports and exports to five countries/territories were 28517.4484 million, 19408.2840 million, 13300.1000 million, 10889.7007 million, 9037.8544 million. These values correspond to 18.79%, 12.79%, 8.76%, 7.18%, 5.96% of SLOVAKIA's imports and exports, and, respectively, were up 12.14%, up 15.17%, 0, up 15.60%, up 1.13% comparing to the same period of last year.

Current year until 202109, SLOVAKIA and the top five trade partners GERMANY, CZECH REPUBLIC, INTRA-EU, POLAND, FRANCE are the top five countries/territories that SLOVAKIA exports to in terms of the total export amount. During the current year until 202109, SLOVAKIA's exports to these five countries/territories were 15356.8150 million, 7685.5562 million, 6708.9000 million, 5728.9998 million, 4558.9743 million. These values correspond to 20.22%, 10.12%, 8.83%, 7.54%, 6.00% of SLOVAKIA's exports and, respectively, were up 9.67%, up 20.60%, 0, up 19.31%, up 8.06% comparing with the same period of last year.

Current year until 202109, SLOVAKIA's exports to top five countries/territories GERMANY, CZECH REPUBLIC, INTRA-EU, AUSTRIA, POLAND are the top five countries/territories that SLOVAKIA imports from in terms of the total export amount. During the current year until 202109, SLOVAKIA's imports from these five countries/territories were 13160.6334 million, 11722.7279 million, 6591.2000 million, 5324.7513 million, 5160.7009 million. These values correspond to 17.36%, 15.46%, 8.70%, 7.02%, 6.81% of SLOVAKIA's total imports and, respectively, were up 15.17%, up 11.87%, 0, down 2.29%, up 11.73% comparing with the same period of last year.

During the current year until 202109, the trade surplus of SLOVAKIA was mainly from GERMANY, UNITED STATES, FRANCE, UNITED KINGDOM, SWITZERLAND at 2196.1817 million, 1981.3524 million, 1751.2729 million, 1739.8706 million, 777.9798 million, and down 14.75%, up 18.85%, up 1.93%, up 10.88%, up 24.51%. And the trade deficits were mainly from CZECH REPUBLIC, SOUTH KOREA, RUSSIA, AUSTRIA, VIETNAM at 4037.1717 million, 2857.7932 million, 2098.5100 million, 1611.6483 million, 1196.4230 million, and down 1.68%, up 53.91%, up 76.66%, down 17.87%, up 71.16%.

Current year until 202109, SLOVAKIA's trade surplus or deficit with top five countries/territories During the current year until 202109,  commodities with hs2 codes, 87, 85, 84, 99, 72, were SLOVAKIA's top five traded commodities. They correspond to the import and export values of 34128.2376 million, 26357.0865 million, 17090.1879 million, 14368.3981 million, 6025.5481 million, which were up 13.31%, up 14.86%, up 13.70%, up 2000.40%, up 67.67% comparing with the same period of last year and account for 22.49%, 17.37%, 11.26%, 9.47%, 3.97% of SLOVAKIA's total imports and exports.

During the current year until 202109, 87, 85, 84, 99, 72 were SLOVAKIA's top five traded commodities, with total import and export values of 23119.3356 million, 11517.9730 million, 8480.1562 million, 6736.4532 million, 3611.7290 million. These values correspond to 30.44%, 15.16%, 11.16%, 8.87%, 4.75% of SLOVAKIA's total exports and, respectively, were up 14.36%, up 8.75%, up 13.23%, up 29674.52%, up 79.21% comparing to the same period of last year.

During the current year until 202109, 85, 87, 84, 99, 27 were SLOVAKIA's top five traded commodities, with total import values of 14839.1134 million, 11008.9020 million, 8610.0317 million, 7631.9449 million, 4246.2655 million. These values correspond to 19.58%, 14.52%, 11.36%, 10.07%, 5.60% of SLOVAKIA's total exports and, respectively, were up 20.09%, up 11.17%, up 14.16%, up 1053.81%, up 32.18% comparing to the same period of last year.

2. Current year until 202109, SLOVAKIA binational trade profile

According to Dalian Infobank, during the current year until 202109, SLOVAKIA-China binational exports and imports of goods amounted to 5118.5486 million and were up 37.32% comparing with the same period of last year. Among these, exports from SLOVAKIA to China were 2058.3185 million and up 30.64%, imports from China to SLOVAKIA were 3060.2300 million and up 42.21%. The total binational trade deficit was 1001.9115 million and up 73.81%.

During the urrent year until 202109, commodities with hs2 code, 87, 85, 84, 73, 90, were binational trade's top five traded commodities. They correspond to import and export values of 1912.3844 million, 1787.1239 million, 579.4882 million, 118.1808 million, 84.6465 million and makes up 37.36%, 34.91%, 11.32%, 2.31%, 1.65% of the total binational imports and exports. These values were also up 36.17%, up 71.07%, up 10.46%, up 41.54%, up 6.36% comparing to the same period last year.

During the current year until 202109, 87, 84, 85, 44, 95 were the top five traded commodities exported to China from SLOVAKIA, with export values of 1664.7470 million, 145.6080 million, 81.9166 million, 46.4442 million, 15.8640 million. These values account for 80.88%, 7.07%, 3.98%, 2.26%, 0.77% of SLOVAKIA's total exports and were up 31.85%, up 10.87%, up 35.60%, up 56.26%, up 89.94% comparing to the same period of last year.

During the current year until 202109, 85, 84, 87, 73, 90 were SLOVAKIA's top five traded commodities importing from China , with import values of 1705.2073 million, 433.8802 million, 247.6374 million, 107.0576 million, 71.4320 million. These values account for 55.72%, 14.18%, 8.09%, 3.50%, 2.33% of SLOVAKIA's total imports and were up 73.24%, up 10.33%, up 74.63%, up 44.56%, up 5.38% comparing with the same period of last year.

3.Analysis of import and export trends

Data Source: Eurostat