1.  Overview the trade of SLOVAKIA in goods current year until 202209

According to Dalian Infobank, in 202209, SLOVAKIA's exports and imports of goods amounted to 17839.0306 million, and were up 5.68% comparing with the same period of last year. Among these, exports were up 2.74% at 8500.8470 million, and imports were up 8.51% at 9338.1836 million. And the corresponding trade deficit was 837.3366 million and up 152.79%.

During the current year until 202209, SLOVAKIA's total exports and imports of goods were 164372.6765 million and were up 7.79% comparing to the same period of last year. Among these, exports were 80432.0279 million and up 5.26%; imports were 83940.6486 million and up 10.32%. The total trade deficit was 3508.6206 million and down 1192.92%.

If considering by country (region), GERMANY, CZECH REPUBLIC, INTRA-EU, POLAND, HUNGARY were SLOVAKIA's top five trading partners. During the current year until 202209, SLOVAKIA's imports and exports to five countries/territories were 28273.5574 million, 21744.5667 million, 14459.8400 million, 12668.0334 million, 11216.2974 million. These values correspond to 17.20%, 13.23%, 8.80%, 7.71%, 6.82% of SLOVAKIA's imports and exports, and, respectively, were down 10.15%, down 0.68%, 0, up 0.63%, up 7.66% comparing to the same period of last year.

Current year until 202209, 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 202209, SLOVAKIA's exports to these five countries/territories were 14971.2706 million, 8792.1033 million, 7229.9200 million, 6223.7402 million, 5872.8651 million. These values correspond to 18.61%, 10.93%, 8.99%, 7.74%, 7.30% of SLOVAKIA's exports and, respectively, were down 10.51%, down 1.21%, 0, up 17.40%, down 9.96% comparing with the same period of last year.

Current year until 202209, 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 202209, SLOVAKIA's imports from these five countries/territories were 13302.2869 million, 12952.4634 million, 7229.9200 million, 6795.1683 million, 5657.3803 million. These values correspond to 15.85%, 15.43%, 8.61%, 8.10%, 6.74% of SLOVAKIA's total imports and, respectively, were down 9.74%, down 0.32%, 0, up 12.01%, down 4.18% comparing with the same period of last year.

During the current year until 202209, the trade surplus of SLOVAKIA was mainly from UNITED STATES, UNITED KINGDOM, FRANCE, GERMANY, HUNGARY at 2026.7835 million, 1912.7845 million, 1747.0347 million, 1668.9837 million, 1231.1830 million, and up 2.42%, down 2.55%, down 10.06%, down 16.23%, up 567.47%. And the trade deficits were mainly from RUSSIA, CZECH REPUBLIC, SOUTH KOREA, AUSTRIA, CHINA at 4600.3172 million, 4160.3601 million, 2928.0221 million, 1672.0740 million, 1529.4003 million, and up 119.04%, up 1.60%, up 2.47%, up 1.30%, up 52.02%.

Current year until 202209, SLOVAKIA's trade surplus or deficit with top five countries/territories During the current year until 202209,  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 33353.4465 million, 25978.4754 million, 16924.1810 million, 14624.9602 million, 12896.2016 million, which were down 9.12%, down 8.96%, down 11.89%, up 7808.33%, up 91.75% comparing with the same period of last year and account for 20.29%, 15.80%, 10.30%, 8.90%, 7.85% of SLOVAKIA's total imports and exports.

During the current year until 202209, 87, 85, 84, 99, 72 were SLOVAKIA's top five traded commodities, with total import and export values of 21956.1336 million, 11205.8163 million, 8618.0532 million, 7289.7427 million, 4260.7621 million. These values correspond to 27.30%, 13.93%, 10.71%, 9.06%, 5.30% of SLOVAKIA's total exports and, respectively, were down 10.09%, down 11.98%, down 9.08%, up 18312.43%, up 1.10% comparing to the same period of last year.

During the current year until 202209, 85, 87, 27, 84, 99 were SLOVAKIA's top five traded commodities, with total import values of 14772.6591 million, 11397.3129 million, 9374.8106 million, 8306.1278 million, 7335.2175 million. These values correspond to 17.60%, 13.58%, 11.17%, 9.90%, 8.74% of SLOVAKIA's total exports and, respectively, were down 6.53%, down 7.18%, up 102.25%, down 14.64%, up 4946.95% comparing to the same period of last year.

2. Current year until 202209, SLOVAKIA binational trade profile

According to Dalian Infobank, during the current year until 202209, SLOVAKIA-China binational exports and imports of goods amounted to 5306.8921 million and were up 3.65% comparing with the same period of last year. Among these, exports from SLOVAKIA to China were 1888.7459 million and down 8.18%, imports from China to SLOVAKIA were 3418.1462 million and up 11.59%. The total binational trade deficit was 1529.4003 million and up 52.02%.

During the urrent year until 202209, 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 1931.5105 million, 1735.0331 million, 690.0140 million, 125.3708 million, 122.9970 million and makes up 36.40%, 32.69%, 13.00%, 2.36%, 2.32% of the total binational imports and exports. These values were also up 8.00%, down 9.29%, up 18.98%, up 6.11%, up 45.26% comparing to the same period last year.

During the current year until 202209, 87, 84, 85, 44, 39 were the top five traded commodities exported to China from SLOVAKIA, with export values of 1500.8445 million, 185.8089 million, 80.3152 million, 20.8085 million, 14.7482 million. These values account for 79.46%, 9.84%, 4.25%, 1.10%, 0.78% of SLOVAKIA's total exports and were down 9.82%, up 27.67%, down 1.97%, down 54.53%, up 4.73% comparing to the same period of last year.

During the current year until 202209, 85, 84, 87, 73, 90 were SLOVAKIA's top five traded commodities importing from China , with import values of 1851.1953 million, 504.2050 million, 234.1887 million, 119.8722 million, 110.3459 million. These values account for 54.16%, 14.75%, 6.85%, 3.51%, 3.23% of SLOVAKIA's total imports and were up 8.48%, up 16.06%, down 5.72%, up 11.91%, up 54.44% comparing with the same period of last year.

3.Analysis of import and export trends

Data Source: Eurostat