1.  Overview the trade of SWITZERLAND in goods current year until 202101

According to Dalian Infobank, in 202101, SWITZERLAND's exports and imports of goods amounted to 49527.4839 million, and were down 1.01% comparing with the same period of last year. Among these, exports were up 1.95% at 27552.8989 million, and imports were down 4.49% at 21974.5850 million. And the corresponding trade surplus was 5578.3138 million and up 38.80%.

During the current year until 202101, SWITZERLAND's total exports and imports of goods were 49527.4839 million and were down 1.01% comparing to the same period of last year. Among these, exports were 27552.8989 million and up 1.95%; imports were 21974.5850 million and down 4.49%. The total trade surplus was 5578.3138 million and up 38.80%.

If considering by country (region), GERMANY, UNITED STATES, ITALY, CHINA, INDIA were SWITZERLAND's top five trading partners. During the current year until 202101, SWITZERLAND's imports and exports to five countries/territories were 8822.0812 million, 6525.4695 million, 3233.7514 million, 3179.8619 million, 2583.0942 million. These values correspond to 17.81%, 13.18%, 6.53%, 6.42%, 5.22% of SWITZERLAND's imports and exports, and, respectively, were down 2.87%, up 18.71%, up 6.63%, up 2.71%, up 117.46% comparing to the same period of last year.

Current year until 202101, SWITZERLAND and the top five trade partners UNITED STATES, GERMANY, INDIA, CHINA, ITALY are the top five countries/territories that SWITZERLAND exports to in terms of the total export amount. During the current year until 202101, SWITZERLAND's exports to these five countries/territories were 5163.2580 million, 4307.7708 million, 2413.5285 million, 1525.7331 million, 1441.7531 million. These values correspond to 18.74%, 15.63%, 8.76%, 5.54%, 5.23% of SWITZERLAND's exports and, respectively, were up 35.91%, down 2.62%, up 134.61%, down 9.01%, up 3.68% comparing with the same period of last year.

Current year until 202101, SWITZERLAND's exports to top five countries/territories GERMANY, ITALY, CHINA, UNITED KINGDOM, UNITED STATES are the top five countries/territories that SWITZERLAND imports from in terms of the total export amount. During the current year until 202101, SWITZERLAND's imports from these five countries/territories were 4514.3104 million, 1791.9983 million, 1654.1288 million, 1491.3421 million, 1362.2114 million. These values correspond to 20.54%, 8.15%, 7.53%, 6.79%, 6.20% of SWITZERLAND's total imports and, respectively, were down 3.12%, up 9.13%, up 16.55%, up 83.72%, down 19.78% comparing with the same period of last year.

During the current year until 202101, the trade surplus of SWITZERLAND was mainly from UNITED STATES, INDIA, THAILAND, SLOVENIA, JAPAN at 3801.0466 million, 2243.9629 million, 494.1703 million, 394.7907 million, 286.5387 million, and up 80.93%, up 158.02%, down 181.11%, up 35.95%, down 34.51%. And the trade deficits were mainly from UNITED KINGDOM, ITALY, IRELAND, BURKINA FASO, GHANA at 564.0083 million, 350.2451 million, 333.8482 million, 312.7133 million, 265.8835 million, and down 270.37%, up 39.21%, up 249.52%, up 51.33%, down 9.30%.

Current year until 202101, SWITZERLAND's trade surplus or deficit with top five countries/territories During the current year until 202101,  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 13348.6254 million, 11748.2872 million, 3121.7201 million, 2810.4876 million, 2415.5061 million, which were down 1.70%, up 5.68%, down 1.27%, down 9.27%, up 8.04% comparing with the same period of last year and account for 26.95%, 23.72%, 6.30%, 5.67%, 4.88% of SWITZERLAND's total imports and exports.

During the current year until 202101, 30, 71, 29, 91, 84 were SWITZERLAND's top five traded commodities, with total import and export values of 8417.2873 million, 6669.0442 million, 2251.6438 million, 1796.3129 million, 1591.2435 million. These values correspond to 30.55%, 24.20%, 8.17%, 6.52%, 5.78% of SWITZERLAND's total exports and, respectively, were up 5.10%, up 5.42%, down 3.07%, down 2.68%, down 0.42% comparing to the same period of last year.

During the current year until 202101, 71, 30, 84, 85, 87 were SWITZERLAND's top five traded commodities, with total import values of 6679.5813 million, 3330.9999 million, 1530.4766 million, 1343.9634 million, 1100.2094 million. These values correspond to 30.40%, 15.16%, 6.96%, 6.12%, 5.01% of SWITZERLAND's total exports and, respectively, were down 7.91%, up 7.18%, down 2.13%, up 7.92%, down 8.08% comparing to the same period of last year.

2. Current year until 202101, SWITZERLAND binational trade profile

According to Dalian Infobank, during the current year until 202101, SWITZERLAND-China binational exports and imports of goods amounted to 3179.8619 million and were up 2.71% comparing with the same period of last year. Among these, exports from SWITZERLAND to China were 1525.7331 million and down 9.01%, imports from China to SWITZERLAND were 1654.1288 million and up 16.55%. The total binational trade deficit was 128.3957 million and down 149.86%.

During the urrent year until 202101, commodities with hs2 code, 30, 85, 84, 91, 71, were binational trade's top five traded commodities. They correspond to import and export values of 590.7186 million, 518.7628 million, 459.6872 million, 340.5675 million, 176.1341 million and makes up 18.58%, 16.31%, 14.46%, 10.71%, 5.54% of the total binational imports and exports. These values were also up 163.37%, up 20.41%, up 24.68%, up 45.07%, down 80.84% comparing to the same period last year.

During the current year until 202101, 30, 91, 84, 71, 90 were the top five traded commodities exported to China from SWITZERLAND, with export values of 587.5959 million, 287.5374 million, 131.7753 million, 104.9853 million, 98.2484 million. These values account for 38.51%, 18.85%, 8.64%, 6.88%, 6.44% of SWITZERLAND's total exports and were up 172.53%, up 73.01%, up 27.80%, down 87.96%, up 37.33% comparing to the same period of last year.

During the current year until 202101, 85, 84, 62, 29, 61 were SWITZERLAND's top five traded commodities importing from China , with import values of 430.7850 million, 327.9119 million, 118.7004 million, 98.9178 million, 83.7637 million. These values account for 26.04%, 19.82%, 7.18%, 5.98%, 5.06% of SWITZERLAND's total imports and were up 18.10%, up 23.46%, up 21.42%, down 1.67%, up 27.96% comparing with the same period of last year.

3.Analysis of import and export trends

Data Source: Federal Customs Administration