1.  Overview the trade of SLOVAKIA in goods current year until 202205

According to Dalian Infobank, in 202205, SLOVAKIA's exports and imports of goods amounted to 18896.3312 million, and were up 12.17% comparing with the same period of last year. Among these, exports were up 10.42% at 9253.1284 million, and imports were up 13.90% at 9643.2028 million. And the corresponding trade deficit was 390.0744 million and up 349.76%.

During the current year until 202205, SLOVAKIA's total exports and imports of goods were 92118.9900 million and were up 7.17% comparing to the same period of last year. Among these, exports were 45158.4416 million and up 3.67%; imports were 46960.5485 million and up 10.77%. The total trade deficit was 1802.1069 million and down 254.34%.

If considering by country (region), INTRA-EU, GERMANY, CZECH REPUBLIC, POLAND, HUNGARY were SLOVAKIA's top five trading partners. During the current year until 202205, SLOVAKIA's imports and exports to five countries/territories were 15127.9700 million, 14327.9129 million, 10596.9112 million, 6245.8822 million, 5232.6175 million. These values correspond to 16.42%, 15.55%, 11.50%, 6.78%, 5.68% of SLOVAKIA's imports and exports, and, respectively, were 0, down 22.63%, down 10.21%, down 9.50%, down 7.28% comparing to the same period of last year.

Current year until 202205, 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 202205, SLOVAKIA's exports to these five countries/territories were 7722.6700 million, 7693.6314 million, 4479.1383 million, 3110.8304 million, 2648.6994 million. These values correspond to 17.10%, 17.04%, 9.92%, 6.89%, 5.87% of SLOVAKIA's exports and, respectively, were 0, down 22.61%, down 7.40%, down 14.69%, down 3.78% comparing with the same period of last year.

Current year until 202205, 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 202205, SLOVAKIA's imports from these five countries/territories were 7405.3000 million, 6634.2814 million, 6117.7729 million, 3187.8674 million, 3135.0518 million. These values correspond to 15.77%, 14.13%, 13.03%, 6.79%, 6.68% of SLOVAKIA's total imports and, respectively, were 0, down 22.66%, down 12.16%, up 100.64%, down 3.68% comparing with the same period of last year.

During the current year until 202205, the trade surplus of SLOVAKIA was mainly from UNITED STATES, GERMANY, UNITED KINGDOM, FRANCE, ITALY at 1111.4922 million, 1059.3500 million, 991.0676 million, 737.3441 million, 573.5401 million, and down 11.41%, down 22.27%, down 4.64%, down 35.84%, up 40.33%. And the trade deficits were mainly from RUSSIA, SOUTH KOREA, CZECH REPUBLIC, AUSTRIA, CHINA at 2820.3596 million, 1753.3252 million, 1638.6346 million, 1016.3312 million, 779.7336 million, and up 202.25%, up 3.61%, down 22.99%, down 2.95%, up 61.07%.

Current year until 202205, SLOVAKIA's trade surplus or deficit with top five countries/territories During the current year until 202205,  commodities with hs2 codes, 87, 99, 85, 84, 27, were SLOVAKIA's top five traded commodities. They correspond to the import and export values of 16941.5358 million, 15311.5323 million, 14057.3850 million, 8818.1024 million, 5737.6248 million, which were down 24.69%, up 6452.78%, down 13.78%, down 18.25%, up 80.92% comparing with the same period of last year and account for 18.39%, 16.62%, 15.26%, 9.57%, 6.23% of SLOVAKIA's total imports and exports.

During the current year until 202205, 87, 99, 85, 84, 72 were SLOVAKIA's top five traded commodities, with total import and export values of 11135.7418 million, 7749.6437 million, 6118.6240 million, 4508.6589 million, 2266.0120 million. These values correspond to 24.66%, 17.16%, 13.55%, 9.98%, 5.02% of SLOVAKIA's total exports and, respectively, were down 26.14%, up 35630.75%, down 15.23%, down 15.45%, up 10.49% comparing to the same period of last year.

During the current year until 202205, 85, 99, 87, 27, 84 were SLOVAKIA's top five traded commodities, with total import values of 7938.7610 million, 7561.8887 million, 5805.7940 million, 4451.0989 million, 4309.4435 million. These values correspond to 16.91%, 16.10%, 12.36%, 9.48%, 9.18% of SLOVAKIA's total exports and, respectively, were down 12.64%, up 3467.34%, down 21.74%, up 107.68%, down 20.99% comparing to the same period of last year.

2. Current year until 202205, SLOVAKIA binational trade profile

According to Dalian Infobank, during the current year until 202205, SLOVAKIA-China binational exports and imports of goods amounted to 2973.1349 million and were down 0.97% comparing with the same period of last year. Among these, exports from SLOVAKIA to China were 1096.7006 million and down 12.89%, imports from China to SLOVAKIA were 1876.4342 million and up 7.65%. The total binational trade deficit was 779.7336 million and up 61.07%.

During the urrent year until 202205, 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 1082.8157 million, 992.1867 million, 386.0953 million, 67.8590 million, 63.6229 million and makes up 36.42%, 33.37%, 12.99%, 2.28%, 2.14% of the total binational imports and exports. These values were also up 4.26%, down 15.80%, up 15.89%, up 9.88%, up 37.56% comparing to the same period last year.

During the current year until 202205, 87, 84, 85, 44, 64 were the top five traded commodities exported to China from SLOVAKIA, with export values of 870.6115 million, 104.2188 million, 47.3324 million, 17.0456 million, 7.8242 million. These values account for 79.38%, 9.50%, 4.32%, 1.55%, 0.71% of SLOVAKIA's total exports and were down 15.40%, up 23.81%, up 8.02%, down 37.04%, down 1.03% comparing to the same period of last year.

During the current year until 202205, 85, 84, 87, 73, 90 were SLOVAKIA's top five traded commodities importing from China , with import values of 1035.4833 million, 281.8765 million, 121.5753 million, 65.0161 million, 56.1030 million. These values account for 55.18%, 15.02%, 6.48%, 3.46%, 2.99% of SLOVAKIA's total imports and were up 4.10%, up 13.21%, down 18.52%, up 18.51%, up 38.34% comparing with the same period of last year.

3.Analysis of import and export trends

Data Source: Eurostat