1.  Overview the trade of SLOVAKIA in goods current year until 202212

According to Dalian Infobank, in 202212, SLOVAKIA's exports and imports of goods amounted to 16976.0300 million, and were down 3.00% comparing with the same period of last year. Among these, exports were down 6.38% at 8019.8824 million, and imports were up 0.25% at 8956.1476 million. And the corresponding trade deficit was 936.2651 million and up 154.71%.

During the current year until 202212, SLOVAKIA's total exports and imports of goods were 220826.8744 million and were up 6.28% comparing to the same period of last year. Among these, exports were 107927.2518 million and up 3.88%; imports were 112899.6226 million and up 8.67%. The total trade deficit was 4972.3708 million and up 1151434.22%.

If considering by country (region), GERMANY, CZECH REPUBLIC, POLAND, HUNGARY, INTRA-EU were SLOVAKIA's top five trading partners. During the current year until 202212, SLOVAKIA's imports and exports to five countries/territories were 39499.2390 million, 30436.4634 million, 17149.2599 million, 15883.5098 million, 13553.9200 million. These values correspond to 17.89%, 13.78%, 7.77%, 7.19%, 6.14% of SLOVAKIA's imports and exports, and, respectively, were down 6.64%, up 0.37%, down 0.03%, up 9.20%, 0 comparing to the same period of last year.

Current year until 202212, SLOVAKIA and the top five trade partners GERMANY, CZECH REPUBLIC, HUNGARY, POLAND, INTRA-EU are the top five countries/territories that SLOVAKIA exports to in terms of the total export amount. During the current year until 202212, SLOVAKIA's exports to these five countries/territories were 21048.3929 million, 12096.0450 million, 8746.8757 million, 7935.7835 million, 6565.1800 million. These values correspond to 19.50%, 11.21%, 8.10%, 7.35%, 6.08% of SLOVAKIA's exports and, respectively, were down 7.52%, down 0.60%, up 15.14%, down 9.50%, 0 comparing with the same period of last year.

Current year until 202212, SLOVAKIA's exports to top five countries/territories GERMANY, CZECH REPUBLIC, POLAND, AUSTRIA, HUNGARY are the top five countries/territories that SLOVAKIA imports from in terms of the total export amount. During the current year until 202212, SLOVAKIA's imports from these five countries/territories were 18450.8461 million, 18340.4184 million, 9213.4764 million, 7907.1962 million, 7136.6341 million. These values correspond to 16.34%, 16.24%, 8.16%, 7.00%, 6.32% of SLOVAKIA's total imports and, respectively, were down 5.62%, up 1.02%, up 9.87%, down 1.26%, up 2.70% comparing with the same period of last year.

During the current year until 202212, the trade surplus of SLOVAKIA was mainly from UNITED STATES, UNITED KINGDOM, GERMANY, FRANCE, HUNGARY at 2955.3580 million, 2709.3900 million, 2597.5469 million, 2261.1100 million, 1610.2415 million, and up 7.34%, down 0.37%, down 19.08%, down 15.86%, up 148.84%. And the trade deficits were mainly from CZECH REPUBLIC, RUSSIA, SOUTH KOREA, AUSTRIA, CHINA at 6244.3734 million, 5971.0466 million, 3960.1224 million, 2473.9886 million, 2057.8475 million, and up 4.32%, up 77.18%, up 2.04%, up 10.62%, up 25.13%.

Current year until 202212, SLOVAKIA's trade surplus or deficit with top five countries/territories During the current year until 202212,  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 46486.5447 million, 37268.0176 million, 23418.6608 million, 17811.9520 million, 13794.8535 million, which were down 5.33%, down 5.49%, down 8.70%, up 64.69%, up 5344.72% comparing with the same period of last year and account for 21.05%, 16.88%, 10.60%, 8.07%, 6.25% of SLOVAKIA's total imports and exports.

During the current year until 202212, 87, 85, 84, 99, 72 were SLOVAKIA's top five traded commodities, with total import and export values of 30574.3520 million, 16171.7476 million, 11893.6111 million, 6669.2840 million, 5390.8887 million. These values correspond to 28.33%, 14.98%, 11.02%, 6.18%, 4.99% of SLOVAKIA's total exports and, respectively, were down 6.58%, down 8.35%, down 5.91%, up 12296.71%, down 7.27% comparing to the same period of last year.

During the current year until 202212, 85, 87, 27, 84, 99 were SLOVAKIA's top five traded commodities, with total import values of 21096.2700 million, 15912.1927 million, 12656.5905 million, 11525.0498 million, 7125.5695 million. These values correspond to 18.69%, 14.09%, 11.21%, 10.21%, 6.31% of SLOVAKIA's total exports and, respectively, were down 3.17%, down 2.84%, up 69.19%, down 11.40%, up 3470.58% comparing to the same period of last year.

2. Current year until 202212, SLOVAKIA binational trade profile

According to Dalian Infobank, during the current year until 202212, SLOVAKIA-China binational exports and imports of goods amounted to 7550.2306 million and were up 10.67% comparing with the same period of last year. Among these, exports from SLOVAKIA to China were 2746.1916 million and up 6.08%, imports from China to SLOVAKIA were 4804.0390 million and up 13.48%. The total binational trade deficit was 2057.8475 million and up 25.13%.

During the urrent year until 202212, commodities with hs2 code, 85, 87, 84, 90, 73, were binational trade's top five traded commodities. They correspond to import and export values of 2805.5665 million, 2564.1594 million, 918.5841 million, 170.7616 million, 166.7462 million and makes up 37.16%, 33.96%, 12.17%, 2.26%, 2.21% of the total binational imports and exports. These values were also up 13.31%, up 6.99%, up 16.38%, up 42.98%, up 4.01% comparing to the same period last year.

During the current year until 202212, 87, 84, 85, 44, 39 were the top five traded commodities exported to China from SLOVAKIA, with export values of 2238.5521 million, 242.1556 million, 106.7764 million, 22.5539 million, 20.7588 million. These values account for 81.51%, 8.82%, 3.89%, 0.82%, 0.76% of SLOVAKIA's total exports and were up 7.80%, up 27.62%, down 3.21%, down 58.29%, down 2.44% comparing to the same period of last year.

During the current year until 202212, 85, 84, 87, 73, 90 were SLOVAKIA's top five traded commodities importing from China , with import values of 2698.7901 million, 676.4286 million, 325.6073 million, 159.3064 million, 152.8256 million. These values account for 56.18%, 14.08%, 6.78%, 3.32%, 3.18% of SLOVAKIA's total imports and were up 14.08%, up 12.83%, up 1.76%, up 8.07%, up 49.86% comparing with the same period of last year.

3.Analysis of import and export trends

Data Source: Eurostat