1.  Overview the trade of SWITZERLAND in goods current year until 202012

According to Dalian Infobank, in 202012, SWITZERLAND's exports and imports of goods amounted to 48606.7922 million, and were up 11.55% comparing with the same period of last year. Among these, exports were up 9.61% at 25115.0362 million, and imports were up 13.71% at 23491.7560 million. And the corresponding trade surplus was 1623.2802 million and down 27.98%.

During the current year until 202012, SWITZERLAND's total exports and imports of goods were 610035.7140 million and were up 3.10% comparing to the same period of last year. Among these, exports were 318977.6947 million and up 1.62%; imports were 291058.0193 million and up 4.77%. The total trade surplus was 27919.6754 million and down 22.66%.

If considering by country (region), GERMANY, UNITED STATES, ITALY, CHINA, FRANCE were SWITZERLAND's top five trading partners. During the current year until 202012, SWITZERLAND's imports and exports to five countries/territories were 105790.2527 million, 93990.8118 million, 39238.7335 million, 35186.1542 million, 33776.9216 million. These values correspond to 17.34%, 15.41%, 6.43%, 5.77%, 5.54% of SWITZERLAND's imports and exports, and, respectively, were up 0.28%, up 48.06%, up 1.86%, down 4.23%, down 11.99% comparing to the same period of last year.

Current year until 202012, SWITZERLAND and the top five trade partners UNITED STATES, GERMANY, CHINA, UNITED KINGDOM, FRANCE are the top five countries/territories that SWITZERLAND exports to in terms of the total export amount. During the current year until 202012, SWITZERLAND's exports to these five countries/territories were 72973.6800 million, 49063.4079 million, 17483.9408 million, 16941.0877 million, 16455.0416 million. These values correspond to 22.88%, 15.38%, 5.48%, 5.31%, 5.16% of SWITZERLAND's exports and, respectively, were up 64.04%, up 2.28%, down 19.01%, down 40.42%, down 15.00% comparing with the same period of last year.

Current year until 202012, SWITZERLAND's exports to top five countries/territories GERMANY, ITALY, UNITED STATES, CHINA, FRANCE are the top five countries/territories that SWITZERLAND imports from in terms of the total export amount. During the current year until 202012, SWITZERLAND's imports from these five countries/territories were 56726.8448 million, 23741.6898 million, 21017.1317 million, 17702.2134 million, 17321.8800 million. These values correspond to 19.49%, 8.16%, 7.22%, 6.08%, 5.95% of SWITZERLAND's total imports and, respectively, were down 1.39%, up 6.13%, up 10.64%, up 16.83%, down 8.92% comparing with the same period of last year.

During the current year until 202012, the trade surplus of SWITZERLAND was mainly from UNITED STATES, INDIA, TURKEY, SLOVENIA, SINGAPORE at 51956.5483 million, 9782.0801 million, 4402.2294 million, 3998.3179 million, 2673.8634 million, and up 103.83%, down 38.12%, up 158.84%, up 46.75%, down 25.33%. And the trade deficits were mainly from ITALY, GERMANY, UNITED ARAB EMIRATES, THAILAND, HONG KONG at 8244.6461 million, 7663.4369 million, 7002.9763 million, 5961.3460 million, 5795.0246 million, and up 32.63%, down 19.82%, down 38.08%, up 69.86%, down 194.63%.

Current year until 202012, SWITZERLAND's trade surplus or deficit with top five countries/territories During the current year until 202012,  commodities with hs2 codes, 71, 30, 84, 29, 85, were SWITZERLAND's top five traded commodities. They correspond to the import and export values of 190606.6298 million, 127071.3270 million, 40230.9830 million, 32866.2081 million, 27028.9551 million, which were up 13.99%, up 10.94%, down 5.35%, down 7.14%, down 0.44% comparing with the same period of last year and account for 31.25%, 20.83%, 6.59%, 5.39%, 4.43% of SWITZERLAND's total imports and exports.

During the current year until 202012, 30, 71, 29, 84, 91 were SWITZERLAND's top five traded commodities, with total import and export values of 88183.7145 million, 86199.4253 million, 25445.5288 million, 21153.9610 million, 18208.9739 million. These values correspond to 27.65%, 27.02%, 7.98%, 6.63%, 5.71% of SWITZERLAND's total exports and, respectively, were up 6.26%, up 7.68%, up 15.63%, down 7.59%, down 16.65% comparing to the same period of last year.

During the current year until 202012, 71, 30, 84, 87, 85 were SWITZERLAND's top five traded commodities, with total import values of 104407.2045 million, 38887.6126 million, 19077.0220 million, 15199.3734 million, 14889.5862 million. These values correspond to 35.87%, 13.36%, 6.55%, 5.22%, 5.12% of SWITZERLAND's total exports and, respectively, were up 19.80%, up 23.22%, down 2.74%, down 5.22%, up 2.10% comparing to the same period of last year.

2. Current year until 202012, SWITZERLAND binational trade profile

According to Dalian Infobank, during the current year until 202012, SWITZERLAND-China binational exports and imports of goods amounted to 35186.1542 million and were down 4.23% comparing with the same period of last year. Among these, exports from SWITZERLAND to China were 17483.9408 million and down 19.01%, imports from China to SWITZERLAND were 17702.2134 million and up 16.83%. The total binational trade deficit was 218.2726 million and down 103.39%.

During the urrent year until 202012, commodities with hs2 code, 30, 85, 84, 71, 91, were binational trade's top five traded commodities. They correspond to import and export values of 5565.7648 million, 5046.4460 million, 4753.0515 million, 3596.4626 million, 3050.7246 million and makes up 15.82%, 14.34%, 13.51%, 10.22%, 8.67% of the total binational imports and exports. These values were also up 27.27%, up 9.38%, up 3.80%, down 62.09%, up 9.82% comparing to the same period last year.

During the current year until 202012, 30, 71, 91, 84, 90 were the top five traded commodities exported to China from SWITZERLAND, with export values of 5443.2010 million, 2758.2812 million, 2580.6204 million, 1772.1901 million, 1149.0023 million. These values account for 31.13%, 15.78%, 14.76%, 10.14%, 6.57% of SWITZERLAND's total exports and were up 26.43%, down 69.19%, up 28.62%, down 3.15%, up 2.34% comparing to the same period of last year.

During the current year until 202012, 85, 84, 62, 61, 29 were SWITZERLAND's top five traded commodities importing from China , with import values of 4037.4131 million, 2980.8614 million, 1421.2534 million, 1053.8327 million, 1025.4567 million. These values account for 22.81%, 16.84%, 8.03%, 5.95%, 5.79% of SWITZERLAND's total imports and were up 9.24%, up 8.43%, up 32.47%, up 43.26%, down 2.89% comparing with the same period of last year.

3.Analysis of import and export trends

Data Source: Federal Customs Administration