1.  Overview the trade of SLOVAKIA in goods current year until 202206

According to Dalian Infobank, in 202206, SLOVAKIA's exports and imports of goods amounted to 18523.5592 million, and were down 0.09% comparing with the same period of last year. Among these, exports were down 3.66% at 8927.8384 million, and imports were up 3.47% at 9595.7208 million. And the corresponding trade deficit was 667.8825 million and up 10694.20%.

During the current year until 202206, SLOVAKIA's total exports and imports of goods were 111331.1062 million and were up 6.54% comparing to the same period of last year. Among these, exports were 54554.4781 million and up 3.27%; imports were 56776.6280 million and up 9.89%. The total trade deficit was 2222.1499 million and down 291.32%.

If considering by country (region), GERMANY, INTRA-EU, CZECH REPUBLIC, POLAND, HUNGARY were SLOVAKIA's top five trading partners. During the current year until 202206, SLOVAKIA's imports and exports to five countries/territories were 18314.7495 million, 14792.4000 million, 13418.6132 million, 7877.4331 million, 6706.2428 million. These values correspond to 16.45%, 13.29%, 12.05%, 7.08%, 6.02% of SLOVAKIA's imports and exports, and, respectively, were down 18.29%, 0, down 7.12%, down 5.97%, down 3.43% comparing to the same period of last year.

Current year until 202206, SLOVAKIA and the top five trade partners GERMANY, INTRA-EU, 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 202206, SLOVAKIA's exports to these five countries/territories were 9883.2654 million, 7501.8600 million, 5731.8948 million, 3888.3278 million, 3351.2862 million. These values correspond to 18.12%, 13.75%, 10.51%, 7.13%, 6.14% of SLOVAKIA's exports and, respectively, were down 17.63%, 0, down 2.96%, down 11.14%, down 0.50% comparing with the same period of last year.

Current year until 202206, SLOVAKIA's exports to top five countries/territories GERMANY, CZECH REPUBLIC, INTRA-EU, POLAND, RUSSIA are the top five countries/territories that SLOVAKIA imports from in terms of the total export amount. During the current year until 202206, SLOVAKIA's imports from these five countries/territories were 8431.4841 million, 7686.7183 million, 7290.5400 million, 3989.1053 million, 3825.3361 million. These values correspond to 14.85%, 13.54%, 12.84%, 7.03%, 6.74% of SLOVAKIA's total imports and, respectively, were down 19.04%, down 9.99%, 0, down 0.31%, up 90.06% comparing with the same period of last year.

During the current year until 202206, the trade surplus of SLOVAKIA was mainly from GERMANY, UNITED STATES, UNITED KINGDOM, FRANCE, ITALY at 1451.7813 million, 1288.9918 million, 1245.0655 million, 901.6259 million, 673.5780 million, and down 8.31%, down 15.33%, down 4.65%, down 37.28%, up 36.23%. And the trade deficits were mainly from RUSSIA, SOUTH KOREA, CZECH REPUBLIC, AUSTRIA, CHINA at 3426.2792 million, 2100.5705 million, 1954.8235 million, 1161.6829 million, 981.1311 million, and up 183.33%, up 4.93%, down 25.74%, down 2.30%, up 68.27%.

Current year until 202206, SLOVAKIA's trade surplus or deficit with top five countries/territories During the current year until 202206,  commodities with hs2 codes, 87, 85, 99, 84, 27, were SLOVAKIA's top five traded commodities. They correspond to the import and export values of 21425.5823 million, 17364.0442 million, 14980.7049 million, 11036.4494 million, 7060.3568 million, which were down 21.00%, down 11.55%, up 4827.84%, down 16.00%, up 77.72% comparing with the same period of last year and account for 19.24%, 15.60%, 13.46%, 9.91%, 6.34% of SLOVAKIA's total imports and exports.

During the current year until 202206, 87, 99, 85, 84, 72 were SLOVAKIA's top five traded commodities, with total import and export values of 14138.7639 million, 7535.5179 million, 7409.4219 million, 5635.7591 million, 2912.2835 million. These values correspond to 25.92%, 13.81%, 13.58%, 10.33%, 5.34% of SLOVAKIA's total exports and, respectively, were down 22.38%, up 28565.68%, down 14.55%, down 13.18%, up 12.97% comparing to the same period of last year.

During the current year until 202206, 85, 99, 87, 27, 84 were SLOVAKIA's top five traded commodities, with total import values of 9954.6223 million, 7445.1870 million, 7286.8184 million, 5430.4000 million, 5400.6903 million. These values correspond to 17.53%, 13.11%, 12.83%, 9.56%, 9.51% of SLOVAKIA's total exports and, respectively, were down 9.18%, up 2580.89%, down 18.18%, up 98.09%, down 18.76% comparing to the same period of last year.

2. Current year until 202206, SLOVAKIA binational trade profile

According to Dalian Infobank, during the current year until 202206, SLOVAKIA-China binational exports and imports of goods amounted to 3567.4143 million and were down 0.87% comparing with the same period of last year. Among these, exports from SLOVAKIA to China were 1293.1416 million and down 14.24%, imports from China to SLOVAKIA were 2274.2727 million and up 8.77%. The total binational trade deficit was 981.1311 million and up 68.27%.

During the urrent year until 202206, 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 1323.6951 million, 1169.9184 million, 461.0703 million, 79.7117 million, 79.4417 million and makes up 37.11%, 32.79%, 12.92%, 2.23%, 2.23% of the total binational imports and exports. These values were also up 6.20%, down 16.33%, up 13.73%, up 6.30%, up 44.05% comparing to the same period last year.

During the current year until 202206, 87, 84, 85, 44, 64 were the top five traded commodities exported to China from SLOVAKIA, with export values of 1022.2046 million, 123.8768 million, 56.8587 million, 18.9762 million, 10.2644 million. These values account for 79.05%, 9.58%, 4.40%, 1.47%, 0.79% of SLOVAKIA's total exports and were down 16.63%, up 18.16%, up 4.93%, down 44.45%, up 2.31% comparing to the same period of last year.

During the current year until 202206, 85, 84, 87, 73, 90 were SLOVAKIA's top five traded commodities importing from China , with import values of 1266.8364 million, 337.1935 million, 147.7138 million, 76.0199 million, 70.5605 million. These values account for 55.70%, 14.83%, 6.49%, 3.34%, 3.10% of SLOVAKIA's total imports and were up 6.26%, up 12.18%, down 14.19%, up 13.22%, up 48.65% comparing with the same period of last year.

3.Analysis of import and export trends

Data Source: Eurostat