1.  Overview the trade of SLOVAKIA in goods current year until 202112

According to Dalian Infobank, in 202112, SLOVAKIA's exports and imports of goods amounted to 17262.3018 million, and were up 11.58% comparing with the same period of last year. Among these, exports were up 7.23% at 8321.1177 million, and imports were up 15.96% at 8941.1841 million. And the corresponding trade deficit was 620.0664 million and down 1363.12%.

During the current year until 202112, SLOVAKIA's total exports and imports of goods were 207109.2109 million and were up 21.09% comparing to the same period of last year. Among these, exports were 103433.4171 million and up 19.38%; imports were 103675.7938 million and up 22.85%. The total trade deficit was 242.3767 million and down 110.79%.

If considering by country (region), GERMANY, CZECH REPUBLIC, POLAND, INTRA-EU, HUNGARY were SLOVAKIA's top five trading partners. During the current year until 202112, SLOVAKIA's imports and exports to five countries/territories were 39309.0445 million, 27706.1482 million, 15366.2962 million, 13564.8000 million, 12904.0550 million. These values correspond to 18.98%, 13.38%, 7.42%, 6.55%, 6.23% of SLOVAKIA's imports and exports, and, respectively, were up 8.52%, up 15.75%, up 15.37%, 0, up 10.99% comparing to the same period of last year.

Current year until 202112, SLOVAKIA and the top five trade partners GERMANY, CZECH REPUBLIC, POLAND, INTRA-EU, HUNGARY are the top five countries/territories that SLOVAKIA exports to in terms of the total export amount. During the current year until 202112, SLOVAKIA's exports to these five countries/territories were 21380.0814 million, 11049.1862 million, 7998.9229 million, 6782.4000 million, 6538.8956 million. These values correspond to 20.67%, 10.68%, 7.73%, 6.56%, 6.32% of SLOVAKIA's exports and, respectively, were up 8.64%, up 21.32%, up 17.39%, 0, up 19.61% comparing with the same period of last year.

Current year until 202112, SLOVAKIA's exports to top five countries/territories GERMANY, CZECH REPUBLIC, AUSTRIA, POLAND, INTRA-EU are the top five countries/territories that SLOVAKIA imports from in terms of the total export amount. During the current year until 202112, SLOVAKIA's imports from these five countries/territories were 17928.9631 million, 16656.9620 million, 7495.1296 million, 7367.3733 million, 6782.4000 million. These values correspond to 17.29%, 16.07%, 7.23%, 7.11%, 6.54% of SLOVAKIA's total imports and, respectively, were up 8.39%, up 12.33%, up 2.44%, up 13.25%, 0 comparing with the same period of last year.

During the current year until 202112, the trade surplus of SLOVAKIA was mainly from GERMANY, UNITED STATES, UNITED KINGDOM, FRANCE, SWITZERLAND at 3451.1183 million, 2754.3895 million, 2483.8742 million, 2405.8122 million, 1044.1580 million, and up 9.97%, up 1.79%, up 5.67%, down 5.15%, up 21.24%. And the trade deficits were mainly from CZECH REPUBLIC, SOUTH KOREA, RUSSIA, AUSTRIA, VIETNAM at 5607.7758 million, 3881.0376 million, 3366.7639 million, 2244.6926 million, 1643.7492 million, and down 1.99%, up 36.93%, up 133.42%, down 12.32%, up 36.83%.

Current year until 202112, SLOVAKIA's trade surplus or deficit with top five countries/territories During the current year until 202112,  commodities with hs2 codes, 87, 85, 84, 99, 27, were SLOVAKIA's top five traded commodities. They correspond to the import and export values of 45906.6662 million, 37147.6515 million, 23733.1914 million, 14842.4781 million, 9417.0185 million, which were up 3.14%, up 10.16%, up 11.83%, up 1633.39%, up 48.04% comparing with the same period of last year and account for 22.17%, 17.94%, 11.46%, 7.17%, 4.55% of SLOVAKIA's total imports and exports.

During the current year until 202112, 87, 85, 84, 99, 72 were SLOVAKIA's top five traded commodities, with total import and export values of 31026.6680 million, 16519.7302 million, 11819.8020 million, 6830.8095 million, 5336.9720 million. These values correspond to 30.00%, 15.97%, 11.43%, 6.60%, 5.16% of SLOVAKIA's total exports and, respectively, were up 3.80%, up 6.83%, up 12.25%, up 20439.81%, up 88.02% comparing to the same period of last year.

During the current year until 202112, 85, 87, 84, 99, 27 were SLOVAKIA's top five traded commodities, with total import values of 20627.9213 million, 14879.9982 million, 11913.3894 million, 8011.6686 million, 6763.2463 million. These values correspond to 19.90%, 14.35%, 11.49%, 7.73%, 6.52% of SLOVAKIA's total exports and, respectively, were up 12.98%, up 1.77%, up 11.42%, up 873.46%, up 57.66% comparing to the same period of last year.

2. Current year until 202112, SLOVAKIA binational trade profile

According to Dalian Infobank, during the current year until 202112, SLOVAKIA-China binational exports and imports of goods amounted to 6820.8338 million and were up 23.40% comparing with the same period of last year. Among these, exports from SLOVAKIA to China were 2589.4958 million and up 9.85%, imports from China to SLOVAKIA were 4231.3380 million and up 33.48%. The total binational trade deficit was 1641.8422 million and up 102.05%.

During the urrent year until 202112, 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 2475.2026 million, 2396.5132 million, 788.5087 million, 160.2987 million, 119.3656 million and makes up 36.29%, 35.14%, 11.56%, 2.35%, 1.75% of the total binational imports and exports. These values were also up 45.48%, up 12.06%, up 12.26%, up 39.30%, up 22.59% comparing to the same period last year.

During the current year until 202112, 87, 84, 85, 44, 39 were the top five traded commodities exported to China from SLOVAKIA, with export values of 2076.6850 million, 189.8930 million, 110.3291 million, 54.6368 million, 21.2998 million. These values account for 80.20%, 7.33%, 4.26%, 2.11%, 0.82% of SLOVAKIA's total exports and were up 8.14%, up 6.40%, up 28.77%, up 33.65%, up 78.53% comparing to the same period of last year.

During the current year until 202112, 85, 84, 87, 73, 90 were SLOVAKIA's top five traded commodities importing from China , with import values of 2364.8735 million, 598.6157 million, 319.8282 million, 147.3285 million, 101.9968 million. These values account for 55.89%, 14.15%, 7.56%, 3.48%, 2.41% of SLOVAKIA's total imports and were up 46.36%, up 14.26%, up 46.62%, up 44.88%, up 21.77% comparing with the same period of last year.

3.Analysis of import and export trends

Data Source: Eurostat