1.  Overview the trade of SLOVAKIA in goods current year until 202203

According to Dalian Infobank, in 202203, SLOVAKIA's exports and imports of goods amounted to 18719.9210 million, and were down 4.08% comparing with the same period of last year. Among these, exports were down 9.44% at 9052.3254 million, and imports were up 1.55% at 9667.5956 million. And the corresponding trade deficit was 615.2702 million and down 229.39%.

During the current year until 202203, SLOVAKIA's total exports and imports of goods were 54517.9648 million and were up 5.47% comparing to the same period of last year. Among these, exports were 26793.5724 million and up 1.09%; imports were 27724.3924 million and up 10.09%. The total trade deficit was 930.8200 million and down 170.40%.

If considering by country (region), INTRA-EU, GERMANY, CZECH REPUBLIC, POLAND, HUNGARY were SLOVAKIA's top five trading partners. During the current year until 202203, SLOVAKIA's imports and exports to five countries/territories were 15206.2200 million, 7182.6534 million, 5060.6971 million, 3015.9179 million, 2487.8503 million. These values correspond to 27.89%, 13.17%, 9.28%, 5.53%, 4.56% of SLOVAKIA's imports and exports, and, respectively, were 0, down 36.00%, down 25.55%, down 26.08%, down 26.27% comparing to the same period of last year.

Current year until 202203, 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 202203, SLOVAKIA's exports to these five countries/territories were 7713.3000 million, 3994.9241 million, 2126.9050 million, 1501.8747 million, 1226.5075 million. These values correspond to 28.79%, 14.91%, 7.94%, 5.61%, 4.58% of SLOVAKIA's exports and, respectively, were 0, down 34.27%, down 23.93%, down 31.72%, down 24.50% comparing with the same period of last year.

Current year until 202203, SLOVAKIA's exports to top five countries/territories INTRA-EU, GERMANY, CZECH REPUBLIC, RUSSIA, POLAND are the top five countries/territories that SLOVAKIA imports from in terms of the total export amount. During the current year until 202203, SLOVAKIA's imports from these five countries/territories were 7492.9200 million, 3187.7293 million, 2933.7920 million, 1969.1991 million, 1514.0431 million. These values correspond to 27.03%, 11.50%, 10.58%, 7.10%, 5.46% of SLOVAKIA's total imports and, respectively, were 0, down 38.05%, down 26.68%, up 112.27%, down 19.47% comparing with the same period of last year.

During the current year until 202203, the trade surplus of SLOVAKIA was mainly from GERMANY, UNITED STATES, UNITED KINGDOM, FRANCE, ITALY at 807.1949 million, 652.1951 million, 465.3640 million, 395.7524 million, 337.0027 million, and down 13.41%, down 17.26%, down 28.36%, down 46.98%, up 5.73%. And the trade deficits were mainly from RUSSIA, SOUTH KOREA, CZECH REPUBLIC, CHINA, AUSTRIA at 1662.6213 million, 1064.7564 million, 806.8870 million, 496.9237 million, 397.2665 million, and up 227.14%, down 0.24%, down 33.04%, up 88.47%, down 44.34%.

Current year until 202203, SLOVAKIA's trade surplus or deficit with top five countries/territories During the current year until 202203,  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 15364.5473 million, 8806.2266 million, 7400.6638 million, 4562.4968 million, 3121.8420 million, which were up 11619.44%, down 37.82%, down 25.97%, down 28.60%, up 76.32% comparing with the same period of last year and account for 28.18%, 16.15%, 13.57%, 8.37%, 5.73% of SLOVAKIA's total imports and exports.

During the current year until 202203, 99, 87, 85, 84, 72 were SLOVAKIA's top five traded commodities, with total import and export values of 7725.6692 million, 5897.0246 million, 3230.8900 million, 2281.8346 million, 1102.4357 million. These values correspond to 28.83%, 22.01%, 12.06%, 8.52%, 4.11% of SLOVAKIA's total exports and, respectively, were up 60462.47%, down 38.63%, down 27.10%, down 27.47%, down 2.11% comparing to the same period of last year.

During the current year until 202203, 99, 85, 87, 27, 84 were SLOVAKIA's top five traded commodities, with total import values of 7638.8781 million, 4169.7738 million, 2909.2020 million, 2482.5108 million, 2280.6623 million. These values correspond to 27.55%, 15.04%, 10.49%, 8.95%, 8.23% of SLOVAKIA's total exports and, respectively, were up 6354.67%, down 25.07%, down 36.09%, up 106.20%, down 29.69% comparing to the same period of last year.

2. Current year until 202203, SLOVAKIA binational trade profile

According to Dalian Infobank, during the current year until 202203, SLOVAKIA-China binational exports and imports of goods amounted to 1796.6705 million and were down 1.33% comparing with the same period of last year. Among these, exports from SLOVAKIA to China were 649.8734 million and down 16.53%, imports from China to SLOVAKIA were 1146.7971 million and up 10.03%. The total binational trade deficit was 496.9237 million and up 88.47%.

During the urrent year until 202203, 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 651.2561 million, 585.8253 million, 243.9368 million, 42.9376 million, 40.8339 million and makes up 36.25%, 32.61%, 13.58%, 2.39%, 2.27% of the total binational imports and exports. These values were also up 5.21%, down 20.84%, up 25.70%, up 11.31%, up 69.40% comparing to the same period last year.

During the current year until 202203, 87, 84, 85, 44, 90 were the top five traded commodities exported to China from SLOVAKIA, with export values of 516.2433 million, 63.2556 million, 27.8896 million, 8.4729 million, 4.6001 million. These values account for 79.44%, 9.73%, 4.29%, 1.30%, 0.71% of SLOVAKIA's total exports and were down 21.00%, up 35.42%, up 19.61%, down 36.71%, up 83.11% comparing to the same period of last year.

During the current year until 202203, 85, 84, 87, 73, 90 were SLOVAKIA's top five traded commodities importing from China , with import values of 623.3664 million, 180.6812 million, 69.5821 million, 40.9505 million, 36.2338 million. These values account for 54.36%, 15.76%, 6.07%, 3.57%, 3.16% of SLOVAKIA's total imports and were up 4.65%, up 22.62%, down 19.63%, up 19.10%, up 67.81% comparing with the same period of last year.

3.Analysis of import and export trends

Data Source: Eurostat