1.  Overview the trade of SLOVAKIA in goods current year until 202110

According to Dalian Infobank, in 202110, SLOVAKIA's exports and imports of goods amounted to 17536.8237 million, and were down 2.00% comparing with the same period of last year. Among these, exports were down 6.13% at 8778.0255 million, and imports were up 2.51% at 8758.7982 million. And the corresponding trade surplus was 19.2272 million and down 97.62%.

During the current year until 202110, SLOVAKIA's total exports and imports of goods were 169954.8308 million and were up 23.36% comparing to the same period of last year. Among these, exports were 85183.0565 million and up 21.81%; imports were 84771.7743 million and up 24.96%. The total trade surplus was 411.2823 million and down 80.33%.

If considering by country (region), GERMANY, CZECH REPUBLIC, INTRA-EU, POLAND, AUSTRIA were SLOVAKIA's top five trading partners. During the current year until 202110, SLOVAKIA's imports and exports to five countries/territories were 31723.2991 million, 22055.7626 million, 14269.2300 million, 12328.7750 million, 10211.4983 million. These values correspond to 18.67%, 12.98%, 8.40%, 7.25%, 6.01% of SLOVAKIA's imports and exports, and, respectively, were up 9.01%, up 14.63%, 0, up 14.04%, up 1.60% comparing to the same period of last year.

Current year until 202110, SLOVAKIA and the top five trade partners GERMANY, CZECH REPUBLIC, INTRA-EU, POLAND, HUNGARY are the top five countries/territories that SLOVAKIA exports to in terms of the total export amount. During the current year until 202110, SLOVAKIA's exports to these five countries/territories were 17099.1214 million, 8751.6504 million, 7540.6500 million, 6469.9842 million, 5106.7938 million. These values correspond to 20.07%, 10.27%, 8.85%, 7.60%, 6.00% of SLOVAKIA's exports and, respectively, were up 6.76%, up 20.12%, 0, up 16.81%, up 15.05% comparing with the same period of last year.

Current year until 202110, 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 202110, SLOVAKIA's imports from these five countries/territories were 14624.1777 million, 13304.1122 million, 6728.5800 million, 6016.6344 million, 5858.7909 million. These values correspond to 17.25%, 15.69%, 7.94%, 7.10%, 6.91% of SLOVAKIA's total imports and, respectively, were up 11.76%, up 11.28%, 0, down 1.90%, up 11.12% comparing with the same period of last year.

During the current year until 202110, the trade surplus of SLOVAKIA was mainly from GERMANY, UNITED STATES, FRANCE, UNITED KINGDOM, SWITZERLAND at 2474.9437 million, 2166.9131 million, 1970.7105 million, 1970.2076 million, 861.3495 million, and down 15.54%, up 7.52%, down 7.68%, up 8.73%, up 23.32%. And the trade deficits were mainly from CZECH REPUBLIC, SOUTH KOREA, RUSSIA, AUSTRIA, VIETNAM at 4552.4618 million, 3269.6099 million, 2440.2999 million, 1821.7704 million, 1315.5412 million, and down 2.52%, up 48.71%, up 95.55%, down 17.76%, up 52.32%.

Current year until 202110, SLOVAKIA's trade surplus or deficit with top five countries/territories During the current year until 202110,  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 37495.7033 million, 29637.5686 million, 19290.2416 million, 15456.4657 million, 7042.8976 million, which were up 6.65%, up 10.72%, up 12.89%, up 1969.03%, up 71.02% comparing with the same period of last year and account for 22.06%, 17.44%, 11.35%, 9.09%, 4.14% of SLOVAKIA's total imports and exports.

During the current year until 202110, 87, 85, 84, 99, 72 were SLOVAKIA's top five traded commodities, with total import and export values of 25298.8031 million, 13030.8482 million, 9597.2373 million, 7578.6773 million, 4215.3789 million. These values correspond to 29.70%, 15.30%, 11.27%, 8.90%, 4.95% of SLOVAKIA's total exports and, respectively, were up 6.73%, up 5.14%, up 12.53%, up 29531.96%, up 82.99% comparing to the same period of last year.

During the current year until 202110, 85, 87, 84, 99, 27 were SLOVAKIA's top five traded commodities, with total import values of 16606.7205 million, 12196.9003 million, 9693.0043 million, 7877.7884 million, 4938.8887 million. These values correspond to 19.59%, 14.39%, 11.43%, 9.29%, 5.83% of SLOVAKIA's total exports and, respectively, were up 15.54%, up 6.50%, up 13.25%, up 991.92%, up 39.25% comparing to the same period of last year.

2. Current year until 202110, SLOVAKIA binational trade profile

According to Dalian Infobank, during the current year until 202110, SLOVAKIA-China binational exports and imports of goods amounted to 5624.4061 million and were up 28.28% comparing with the same period of last year. Among these, exports from SLOVAKIA to China were 2156.7736 million and up 14.34%, imports from China to SLOVAKIA were 3467.6325 million and up 38.81%. The total binational trade deficit was 1310.8589 million and up 114.25%.

During the urrent year until 202110, commodities with hs2 code, 85, 87, 84, 73, 90, were binational trade's top five traded commodities. They correspond to import and export values of 2022.9857 million, 1995.0307 million, 650.4814 million, 135.1107 million, 96.3043 million and makes up 35.97%, 35.47%, 11.57%, 2.40%, 1.71% of the total binational imports and exports. These values were also up 59.95%, up 17.41%, up 12.02%, up 40.33%, up 13.29% comparing to the same period last year.

During the current year until 202110, 87, 84, 85, 44, 39 were the top five traded commodities exported to China from SLOVAKIA, with export values of 1724.4397 million, 160.1083 million, 91.5989 million, 50.4154 million, 16.4946 million. These values account for 79.95%, 7.42%, 4.25%, 2.34%, 0.76% of SLOVAKIA's total exports and were up 12.45%, up 9.89%, up 32.12%, up 49.19%, up 90.31% comparing to the same period of last year.

During the current year until 202110, 85, 84, 87, 73, 90 were SLOVAKIA's top five traded commodities importing from China , with import values of 1931.3868 million, 490.3732 million, 270.5911 million, 123.5732 million, 81.8817 million. These values account for 55.70%, 14.14%, 7.80%, 3.56%, 2.36% of SLOVAKIA's total imports and were up 61.57%, up 12.73%, up 63.32%, up 44.75%, up 12.67% comparing with the same period of last year.

3.Analysis of import and export trends

Data Source: Eurostat