1.  Overview the trade of SLOVAKIA in goods current year until 202202

According to Dalian Infobank, in 202202, SLOVAKIA's exports and imports of goods amounted to 17879.0906 million, and were up 6.56% comparing with the same period of last year. Among these, exports were up 1.77% at 8784.8284 million, and imports were up 11.64% at 9094.2622 million. And the corresponding trade deficit was 309.4338 million and down 163.65%.

During the current year until 202202, SLOVAKIA's total exports and imports of goods were 35205.9899 million and were up 9.43% comparing to the same period of last year. Among these, exports were 17388.7794 million and up 5.32%; imports were 17817.2105 million and up 13.75%. The total trade deficit was 428.4310 million and down 150.61%.

If considering by country (region), INTRA-EU, GERMANY, CZECH REPUBLIC, RUSSIA, POLAND were SLOVAKIA's top five trading partners. During the current year until 202202, SLOVAKIA's imports and exports to five countries/territories were 14290.9200 million, 3451.3978 million, 2490.1039 million, 1618.7808 million, 1439.6841 million. These values correspond to 40.59%, 9.80%, 7.07%, 4.60%, 4.09% of SLOVAKIA's imports and exports, and, respectively, were 0, down 51.09%, down 41.17%, up 95.02%, down 43.90% comparing to the same period of last year.

Current year until 202202, SLOVAKIA and the top five trade partners INTRA-EU, GERMANY, CZECH REPUBLIC, POLAND, HUNGARY are the top five countries/territories that SLOVAKIA exports to in terms of the total export amount. During the current year until 202202, SLOVAKIA's exports to these five countries/territories were 7372.3000 million, 1968.3993 million, 1016.1965 million, 743.6058 million, 588.1711 million. These values correspond to 42.40%, 11.32%, 5.84%, 4.28%, 3.38% of SLOVAKIA's exports and, respectively, were 0, down 48.43%, down 41.68%, down 46.55%, down 41.64% comparing with the same period of last year.

Current year until 202202, SLOVAKIA's exports to top five countries/territories INTRA-EU, GERMANY, CZECH REPUBLIC, RUSSIA, CHINA are the top five countries/territories that SLOVAKIA imports from in terms of the total export amount. During the current year until 202202, SLOVAKIA's imports from these five countries/territories were 6918.6200 million, 1482.9985 million, 1473.9075 million, 1373.8330 million, 783.6974 million. These values correspond to 38.83%, 8.32%, 8.27%, 7.71%, 4.40% of SLOVAKIA's total imports and, respectively, were 0, down 54.22%, down 40.81%, up 139.92%, up 19.33% comparing with the same period of last year.

During the current year until 202202, the trade surplus of SLOVAKIA was mainly from GERMANY, INTRA-EU, UNITED STATES, FRANCE, UNITED KINGDOM at 485.4008 million, 453.6800 million, 451.1596 million, 225.6072 million, 215.0240 million, and down 15.96%, 0, down 7.83%, down 54.32%, down 40.09%. And the trade deficits were mainly from RUSSIA, SOUTH KOREA, CZECH REPUBLIC, CHINA, AUSTRIA at 1128.8853 million, 671.1346 million, 457.7110 million, 316.3057 million, 251.0845 million, and up 258.14%, up 8.45%, down 38.78%, up 76.23%, down 42.89%.

Current year until 202202, SLOVAKIA's trade surplus or deficit with top five countries/territories During the current year until 202202,  commodities with hs2 codes, 99, 87, 85, 84, 27, were SLOVAKIA's top five traded commodities. They correspond to the import and export values of 14440.6444 million, 4571.9284 million, 4163.9734 million, 2371.7184 million, 1959.9391 million, which were up 17051.65%, down 47.62%, down 34.75%, down 39.76%, up 71.67% comparing with the same period of last year and account for 41.02%, 12.99%, 11.83%, 6.74%, 5.57% of SLOVAKIA's total imports and exports.

During the current year until 202202, 99, 87, 85, 84, 72 were SLOVAKIA's top five traded commodities, with total import and export values of 7380.8420 million, 3162.4953 million, 1750.8276 million, 1194.3509 million, 568.7800 million. These values correspond to 42.45%, 18.19%, 10.07%, 6.87%, 3.27% of SLOVAKIA's total exports and, respectively, were up 91546.25%, down 46.35%, down 38.80%, down 38.86%, down 17.88% comparing to the same period of last year.

During the current year until 202202, 99, 85, 27, 87, 84 were SLOVAKIA's top five traded commodities, with total import values of 7059.8024 million, 2413.1458 million, 1637.6719 million, 1409.4331 million, 1177.3674 million. These values correspond to 39.62%, 13.54%, 9.19%, 7.91%, 6.61% of SLOVAKIA's total exports and, respectively, were up 9172.10%, down 31.46%, up 113.26%, down 50.26%, down 40.65% comparing to the same period of last year.

2. Current year until 202202, SLOVAKIA binational trade profile

According to Dalian Infobank, during the current year until 202202, SLOVAKIA-China binational exports and imports of goods amounted to 1251.0890 million and were up 10.32% comparing with the same period of last year. Among these, exports from SLOVAKIA to China were 467.3916 million and down 2.07%, imports from China to SLOVAKIA were 783.6974 million and up 19.33%. The total binational trade deficit was 316.3057 million and up 76.23%.

During the urrent year until 202202, 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 446.5627 million, 430.8795 million, 165.5079 million, 28.6663 million, 26.3296 million and makes up 35.69%, 34.44%, 13.23%, 2.29%, 2.10% of the total binational imports and exports. These values were also up 11.50%, down 6.17%, up 42.21%, up 9.93%, up 77.39% comparing to the same period last year.

During the current year until 202202, 87, 84, 85, 44, 64 were the top five traded commodities exported to China from SLOVAKIA, with export values of 384.0259 million, 41.1260 million, 16.5555 million, 4.4742 million, 2.4921 million. These values account for 82.16%, 8.80%, 3.54%, 0.96%, 0.53% of SLOVAKIA's total exports and were down 4.59%, up 52.30%, up 9.30%, down 25.59%, up 47.86% comparing to the same period of last year.

During the current year until 202202, 85, 84, 87, 73, 90 were SLOVAKIA's top five traded commodities importing from China , with import values of 430.0073 million, 124.3819 million, 46.8537 million, 27.2832 million, 23.8606 million. These values account for 54.87%, 15.87%, 5.98%, 3.48%, 3.04% of SLOVAKIA's total imports and were up 11.59%, up 39.15%, down 17.38%, up 16.48%, up 73.79% comparing with the same period of last year.

3.Analysis of import and export trends

Data Source: Eurostat