1.  Overview the trade of SLOVAKIA in goods current year until 202204

According to Dalian Infobank, in 202204, SLOVAKIA's exports and imports of goods amounted to 17739.4393 million, and were up 2.01% comparing with the same period of last year. Among these, exports were down 3.37% at 8375.9592 million, and imports were up 7.37% at 9363.4801 million. And the corresponding trade deficit was 987.5210 million and up 1768.37%.

During the current year until 202204, SLOVAKIA's total exports and imports of goods were 73554.4550 million and were up 6.43% comparing to the same period of last year. Among these, exports were 35890.8953 million and up 2.02%; imports were 37663.5597 million and up 11.01%. The total trade deficit was 1772.6644 million and down 241.32%.

If considering by country (region), INTRA-EU, GERMANY, CZECH REPUBLIC, POLAND, HUNGARY were SLOVAKIA's top five trading partners. During the current year until 202204, SLOVAKIA's imports and exports to five countries/territories were 14389.2700 million, 11070.1153 million, 8012.9907 million, 4706.6115 million, 3883.1409 million. These values correspond to 19.56%, 15.05%, 10.89%, 6.40%, 5.28% of SLOVAKIA's imports and exports, and, respectively, were 0, down 25.97%, down 13.36%, down 14.54%, down 14.11% comparing to the same period of last year.

Current year until 202204, 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 202204, SLOVAKIA's exports to these five countries/territories were 7140.5400 million, 5999.1212 million, 3350.2746 million, 2344.6437 million, 1957.1702 million. These values correspond to 19.90%, 16.71%, 9.33%, 6.53%, 5.45% of SLOVAKIA's exports and, respectively, were 0, down 24.78%, down 11.29%, down 19.45%, down 9.79% comparing with the same period of last year.

Current year until 202204, 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 202204, SLOVAKIA's imports from these five countries/territories were 7248.7300 million, 5070.9941 million, 4662.7161 million, 2522.0323 million, 2361.9678 million. These values correspond to 19.25%, 13.46%, 12.38%, 6.70%, 6.27% of SLOVAKIA's total imports and, respectively, were 0, down 27.33%, down 14.79%, up 102.64%, down 9.03% comparing with the same period of last year.

During the current year until 202204, the trade surplus of SLOVAKIA was mainly from GERMANY, UNITED STATES, UNITED KINGDOM, FRANCE, ITALY at 928.1272 million, 848.3661 million, 779.9321 million, 634.9487 million, 441.9324 million, and down 6.95%, down 20.73%, down 7.60%, down 37.60%, up 20.32%. And the trade deficits were mainly from RUSSIA, SOUTH KOREA, CZECH REPUBLIC, AUSTRIA, CHINA at 2193.0463 million, 1402.7855 million, 1312.4415 million, 732.6383 million, 720.7767 million, and up 217.83%, up 1.39%, down 22.60%, down 14.48%, up 143.35%.

Current year until 202204, SLOVAKIA's trade surplus or deficit with top five countries/territories During the current year until 202204,  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 14558.6947 million, 13193.6114 million, 10901.7723 million, 6828.9680 million, 4359.9343 million, which were up 8436.70%, down 29.78%, down 16.97%, down 20.28%, up 78.18% comparing with the same period of last year and account for 19.79%, 17.94%, 14.82%, 9.28%, 5.93% of SLOVAKIA's total imports and exports.

During the current year until 202204, 87, 99, 85, 84, 72 were SLOVAKIA's top five traded commodities, with total import and export values of 8672.0813 million, 7164.6769 million, 4786.1072 million, 3453.7989 million, 1713.6892 million. These values correspond to 24.16%, 19.96%, 13.34%, 9.62%, 4.77% of SLOVAKIA's total exports and, respectively, were down 31.45%, up 41232.63%, down 17.43%, down 17.78%, up 9.27% comparing to the same period of last year.

During the current year until 202204, 99, 85, 87, 27, 84 were SLOVAKIA's top five traded commodities, with total import values of 7394.0178 million, 6115.6651 million, 4521.5301 million, 3440.8568 million, 3375.1691 million. These values correspond to 19.63%, 16.24%, 12.01%, 9.14%, 8.96% of SLOVAKIA's total exports and, respectively, were up 4726.12%, down 16.60%, down 26.32%, up 105.82%, down 22.69% comparing to the same period of last year.

2. Current year until 202204, SLOVAKIA binational trade profile

According to Dalian Infobank, during the current year until 202204, SLOVAKIA-China binational exports and imports of goods amounted to 2312.9948 million and were down 4.81% comparing with the same period of last year. Among these, exports from SLOVAKIA to China were 796.1090 million and down 25.38%, imports from China to SLOVAKIA were 1516.8857 million and up 11.28%. The total binational trade deficit was 720.7767 million and up 143.35%.

During the urrent year until 202204, 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 875.1468 million, 715.1895 million, 313.2108 million, 55.7963 million, 51.1240 million and makes up 37.84%, 30.92%, 13.54%, 2.41%, 2.21% of the total binational imports and exports. These values were also up 8.56%, down 29.33%, up 18.77%, up 13.81%, up 48.63% comparing to the same period last year.

During the current year until 202204, 87, 84, 85, 44, 39 were the top five traded commodities exported to China from SLOVAKIA, with export values of 619.7356 million, 79.6430 million, 37.8080 million, 13.3532 million, 5.8894 million. These values account for 77.85%, 10.00%, 4.75%, 1.68%, 0.74% of SLOVAKIA's total exports and were down 30.62%, up 20.93%, up 14.28%, down 31.08%, up 6.97% comparing to the same period of last year.

During the current year until 202204, 85, 84, 87, 73, 90 were SLOVAKIA's top five traded commodities importing from China , with import values of 837.3388 million, 233.5678 million, 95.4539 million, 53.2610 million, 45.2476 million. These values account for 55.20%, 15.40%, 6.29%, 3.51%, 2.98% of SLOVAKIA's total imports and were up 8.32%, up 18.05%, down 19.65%, up 23.27%, up 48.30% comparing with the same period of last year.

3.Analysis of import and export trends

Data Source: Eurostat