1.  Overview the trade of SLOVAKIA in goods current year until 202208

According to Dalian Infobank, in 202208, SLOVAKIA's exports and imports of goods amounted to 16529.1935 million, and were up 9.37% comparing with the same period of last year. Among these, exports were up 9.10% at 8078.9429 million, and imports were up 9.62% at 8450.2507 million. And the corresponding trade deficit was 371.3078 million and up 22.41%.

During the current year until 202208, SLOVAKIA's total exports and imports of goods were 145916.0816 million and were up 7.57% comparing to the same period of last year. Among these, exports were 71590.9301 million and up 5.03%; imports were 74325.1515 million and up 10.14%. The total trade deficit was 2734.2214 million and down 504.29%.

If considering by country (region), GERMANY, CZECH REPUBLIC, INTRA-EU, POLAND, HUNGARY were SLOVAKIA's top five trading partners. During the current year until 202208, SLOVAKIA's imports and exports to five countries/territories were 25098.4215 million, 19136.4891 million, 13166.4000 million, 11181.6740 million, 9699.8105 million. These values correspond to 17.20%, 13.11%, 9.02%, 7.66%, 6.65% of SLOVAKIA's imports and exports, and, respectively, were down 11.20%, down 0.42%, 0, up 0.65%, up 5.93% comparing to the same period of last year.

Current year until 202208, SLOVAKIA and the top five trade partners GERMANY, CZECH REPUBLIC, INTRA-EU, HUNGARY, POLAND are the top five countries/territories that SLOVAKIA exports to in terms of the total export amount. During the current year until 202208, SLOVAKIA's exports to these five countries/territories were 13420.9174 million, 7809.5220 million, 6481.9200 million, 5233.2878 million, 5220.7448 million. These values correspond to 18.75%, 10.91%, 9.05%, 7.31%, 7.29% of SLOVAKIA's exports and, respectively, were down 10.55%, down 0.56%, 0, up 14.06%, down 9.67% comparing with the same period of last year.

Current year until 202208, SLOVAKIA's exports to top five countries/territories GERMANY, CZECH REPUBLIC, INTRA-EU, POLAND, AUSTRIA are the top five countries/territories that SLOVAKIA imports from in terms of the total export amount. During the current year until 202208, SLOVAKIA's imports from these five countries/territories were 11677.5041 million, 11326.9670 million, 6684.4800 million, 5960.9293 million, 4933.1622 million. These values correspond to 15.71%, 15.24%, 8.99%, 8.02%, 6.64% of SLOVAKIA's total imports and, respectively, were down 11.95%, down 0.32%, 0, up 11.85%, down 5.42% comparing with the same period of last year.

During the current year until 202208, the trade surplus of SLOVAKIA was mainly from UNITED STATES, GERMANY, UNITED KINGDOM, FRANCE, ITALY at 1865.8467 million, 1743.4133 million, 1724.0648 million, 1573.0572 million, 787.4103 million, and up 0.84%, up 0.08%, down 0.97%, down 8.07%, up 36.85%. And the trade deficits were mainly from RUSSIA, CZECH REPUBLIC, SOUTH KOREA, AUSTRIA, CHINA at 4089.2761 million, 3517.4450 million, 2604.0953 million, 1422.3631 million, 1155.8641 million, and up 131.26%, up 0.20%, up 0.76%, down 2.28%, up 55.41%.

Current year until 202208, SLOVAKIA's trade surplus or deficit with top five countries/territories During the current year until 202208,  commodities with hs2 codes, 87, 85, 84, 99, 27, were SLOVAKIA's top five traded commodities. They correspond to the import and export values of 30019.5112 million, 22928.8912 million, 14962.5403 million, 13392.2387 million, 11048.9988 million, which were down 9.88%, down 9.52%, down 12.09%, up 2975.72%, up 95.63% comparing with the same period of last year and account for 20.57%, 15.71%, 10.25%, 9.18%, 7.57% of SLOVAKIA's total imports and exports.

During the current year until 202208, 87, 85, 84, 99, 72 were SLOVAKIA's top five traded commodities, with total import and export values of 19931.2081 million, 9911.4505 million, 7649.5234 million, 6529.9694 million, 3875.6161 million. These values correspond to 27.84%, 13.84%, 10.69%, 9.12%, 5.41% of SLOVAKIA's total exports and, respectively, were down 10.89%, down 11.87%, down 8.85%, up 18417.99%, up 6.92% comparing to the same period of last year.

During the current year until 202208, 85, 87, 27, 84, 99 were SLOVAKIA's top five traded commodities, with total import values of 13017.4407 million, 10088.3031 million, 8149.2326 million, 7313.0169 million, 6862.2693 million. These values correspond to 17.51%, 13.57%, 10.96%, 9.84%, 9.23% of SLOVAKIA's total exports and, respectively, were down 7.64%, down 7.82%, up 108.51%, down 15.24%, up 1614.91% comparing to the same period of last year.

2. Current year until 202208, SLOVAKIA binational trade profile

According to Dalian Infobank, during the current year until 202208, SLOVAKIA-China binational exports and imports of goods amounted to 4734.4195 million and were up 0.77% comparing with the same period of last year. Among these, exports from SLOVAKIA to China were 1789.2777 million and down 9.51%, imports from China to SLOVAKIA were 2945.1418 million and up 8.24%. The total binational trade deficit was 1155.8641 million and up 55.41%.

During the urrent year until 202208, 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 1664.2291 million, 1638.3193 million, 605.2482 million, 110.2994 million, 106.1036 million and makes up 35.15%, 34.60%, 12.78%, 2.33%, 2.24% of the total binational imports and exports. These values were also up 3.23%, down 10.86%, up 16.56%, up 6.43%, up 45.84% comparing to the same period last year.

During the current year until 202208, 87, 84, 85, 44, 39 were the top five traded commodities exported to China from SLOVAKIA, with export values of 1439.0700 million, 166.8935 million, 72.5782 million, 20.4386 million, 12.5058 million. These values account for 80.43%, 9.33%, 4.06%, 1.14%, 0.70% of SLOVAKIA's total exports and were down 11.03%, up 25.02%, down 1.49%, down 52.53%, down 1.38% comparing to the same period of last year.

During the current year until 202208, 85, 84, 87, 73, 90 were SLOVAKIA's top five traded commodities importing from China , with import values of 1591.6510 million, 438.3547 million, 199.2493 million, 105.3941 million, 94.6299 million. These values account for 54.04%, 14.88%, 6.77%, 3.58%, 3.21% of SLOVAKIA's total imports and were up 3.45%, up 13.63%, down 9.62%, up 12.80%, up 53.47% comparing with the same period of last year.

3.Analysis of import and export trends

Data Source: Eurostat