1.  Overview the trade of SLOVAKIA in goods current year until 202211

According to Dalian Infobank, in 202211, SLOVAKIA's exports and imports of goods amounted to 19726.8143 million, and were up 0.10% comparing with the same period of last year. Among these, exports were down 3.37% at 9411.7415 million, and imports were up 3.48% at 10315.0728 million. And the corresponding trade deficit was 903.3313 million and up 294.93%.

During the current year until 202211, SLOVAKIA's total exports and imports of goods were 203283.8926 million and were up 6.83% comparing to the same period of last year. Among these, exports were 99516.4166 million and up 4.40%; imports were 103767.4761 million and up 9.28%. The total trade deficit was 4251.0595 million and down 1257.86%.

If considering by country (region), GERMANY, CZECH REPUBLIC, INTRA-EU, POLAND, HUNGARY were SLOVAKIA's top five trading partners. During the current year until 202211, SLOVAKIA's imports and exports to five countries/territories were 35495.8003 million, 27336.4021 million, 15811.5500 million, 15628.4855 million, 14115.8451 million. These values correspond to 17.46%, 13.45%, 7.78%, 7.69%, 6.94% of SLOVAKIA's imports and exports, and, respectively, were down 9.11%, down 1.21%, 0, down 0.53%, up 6.30% comparing to the same period of last year.

Current year until 202211, SLOVAKIA and the top five trade partners GERMANY, CZECH REPUBLIC, HUNGARY, INTRA-EU, POLAND are the top five countries/territories that SLOVAKIA exports to in terms of the total export amount. During the current year until 202211, SLOVAKIA's exports to these five countries/territories were 18943.5675 million, 10928.0932 million, 7833.3202 million, 7752.7600 million, 7261.3274 million. These values correspond to 19.04%, 10.98%, 7.87%, 7.79%, 7.30% of SLOVAKIA's exports and, respectively, were down 10.05%, down 2.11%, up 13.57%, 0, down 9.96% comparing with the same period of last year.

Current year until 202211, SLOVAKIA's exports to top five countries/territories GERMANY, CZECH REPUBLIC, POLAND, INTRA-EU, AUSTRIA are the top five countries/territories that SLOVAKIA imports from in terms of the total export amount. During the current year until 202211, SLOVAKIA's imports from these five countries/territories were 16552.2329 million, 16408.3088 million, 8367.1581 million, 8058.7900 million, 7108.1250 million. These values correspond to 15.95%, 15.81%, 8.06%, 7.77%, 6.85% of SLOVAKIA's total imports and, respectively, were down 8.02%, down 0.60%, up 9.42%, 0, down 3.93% comparing with the same period of last year.

During the current year until 202211, the trade surplus of SLOVAKIA was mainly from UNITED STATES, UNITED KINGDOM, GERMANY, FRANCE, HUNGARY at 2742.3449 million, 2452.1059 million, 2391.3346 million, 2019.2160 million, 1550.7953 million, and up 11.56%, down 1.09%, down 21.94%, down 14.08%, up 200.71%. And the trade deficits were mainly from RUSSIA, CZECH REPUBLIC, SOUTH KOREA, AUSTRIA, CHINA at 5619.9999 million, 5480.2156 million, 3568.7267 million, 2181.5059 million, 1903.4430 million, and up 93.87%, up 2.56%, up 1.58%, up 4.05%, up 23.81%.

Current year until 202211, SLOVAKIA's trade surplus or deficit with top five countries/territories During the current year until 202211,  commodities with hs2 codes, 87, 85, 84, 27, 99, were SLOVAKIA's top five traded commodities. They correspond to the import and export values of 41831.5659 million, 33297.6471 million, 21117.5213 million, 16218.7911 million, 16037.2927 million, which were down 6.87%, down 7.83%, down 10.59%, up 72.71%, up 6866.56% comparing with the same period of last year and account for 20.58%, 16.38%, 10.39%, 7.98%, 7.89% of SLOVAKIA's total imports and exports.

During the current year until 202211, 87, 85, 84, 99, 72 were SLOVAKIA's top five traded commodities, with total import and export values of 27678.9700 million, 14421.4539 million, 10768.3348 million, 7845.2667 million, 5045.0294 million. These values correspond to 27.81%, 14.49%, 10.82%, 7.88%, 5.07% of SLOVAKIA's total exports and, respectively, were down 7.36%, down 11.24%, down 7.94%, up 15850.68%, down 5.28% comparing to the same period of last year.

During the current year until 202211, 85, 87, 27, 84, 99 were SLOVAKIA's top five traded commodities, with total import values of 18876.1932 million, 14152.5958 million, 11626.0233 million, 10349.1865 million, 8192.0260 million. These values correspond to 18.19%, 13.64%, 11.20%, 9.97%, 7.89% of SLOVAKIA's total exports and, respectively, were down 5.04%, down 5.90%, up 79.85%, down 13.18%, up 4425.50% comparing to the same period of last year.

2. Current year until 202211, SLOVAKIA binational trade profile

According to Dalian Infobank, during the current year until 202211, SLOVAKIA-China binational exports and imports of goods amounted to 6852.2362 million and were up 10.50% comparing with the same period of last year. Among these, exports from SLOVAKIA to China were 2474.3966 million and up 6.12%, imports from China to SLOVAKIA were 4377.8396 million and up 13.15%. The total binational trade deficit was 1903.4430 million and up 23.81%.

During the urrent year until 202211, 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 2524.8421 million, 2303.1247 million, 843.8176 million, 157.1267 million, 155.4264 million and makes up 36.85%, 33.61%, 12.31%, 2.29%, 2.27% of the total binational imports and exports. These values were also up 11.76%, up 6.68%, up 16.91%, up 5.39%, up 45.00% comparing to the same period last year.

During the current year until 202211, 87, 84, 85, 44, 39 were the top five traded commodities exported to China from SLOVAKIA, with export values of 2004.0474 million, 223.3713 million, 98.8511 million, 22.2417 million, 18.6739 million. These values account for 80.99%, 9.03%, 3.99%, 0.90%, 0.75% of SLOVAKIA's total exports and were up 7.69%, up 27.55%, down 1.42%, down 57.12%, down 2.02% comparing to the same period of last year.

During the current year until 202211, 85, 84, 87, 73, 90 were SLOVAKIA's top five traded commodities importing from China , with import values of 2425.9909 million, 620.4463 million, 299.0773 million, 150.1883 million, 138.7351 million. These values account for 55.42%, 14.17%, 6.83%, 3.43%, 3.17% of SLOVAKIA's total imports and were up 12.37%, up 13.51%, up 0.37%, up 9.49%, up 52.46% comparing with the same period of last year.

3.Analysis of import and export trends

Data Source: Eurostat