1.  Overview the trade of SWITZERLAND in goods current year until 202102

According to Dalian Infobank, in 202102, SWITZERLAND's exports and imports of goods amounted to 52696.9423 million, and were up 17.47% comparing with the same period of last year. Among these, exports were up 20.76% at 28615.7028 million, and imports were up 13.79% at 24081.2396 million. And the corresponding trade surplus was 4534.4632 million and up 79.02%.

During the current year until 202102, SWITZERLAND's total exports and imports of goods were 102420.0190 million and were up 7.93% comparing to the same period of last year. Among these, exports were 56218.5172 million and up 10.84%; imports were 46201.5017 million and up 4.60%. The total trade surplus was 10017.0155 million and up 52.88%.

If considering by country (region), GERMANY, UNITED STATES, UNITED KINGDOM, ITALY, INDIA were SWITZERLAND's top five trading partners. During the current year until 202102, SWITZERLAND's imports and exports to five countries/territories were 18301.9302 million, 12569.8215 million, 7501.3173 million, 6489.8462 million, 6264.6843 million. These values correspond to 17.87%, 12.27%, 7.32%, 6.34%, 6.12% of SWITZERLAND's imports and exports, and, respectively, were up 4.31%, up 23.25%, up 93.57%, up 4.49%, up 140.10% comparing to the same period of last year.

Current year until 202102, SWITZERLAND and the top five trade partners UNITED STATES, GERMANY, INDIA, ITALY, CHINA are the top five countries/territories that SWITZERLAND exports to in terms of the total export amount. During the current year until 202102, SWITZERLAND's exports to these five countries/territories were 9968.2488 million, 8766.9717 million, 5940.0546 million, 2938.4960 million, 2899.8911 million. These values correspond to 17.73%, 15.59%, 10.57%, 5.23%, 5.16% of SWITZERLAND's exports and, respectively, were up 40.58%, up 9.15%, up 160.38%, up 9.06%, down 2.14% comparing with the same period of last year.

Current year until 202102, SWITZERLAND's exports to top five countries/territories GERMANY, UNITED KINGDOM, ITALY, CHINA, UNITED STATES are the top five countries/territories that SWITZERLAND imports from in terms of the total export amount. During the current year until 202102, SWITZERLAND's imports from these five countries/territories were 9534.9585 million, 5807.6848 million, 3551.3501 million, 3137.9861 million, 2601.5727 million. These values correspond to 20.64%, 12.57%, 7.69%, 6.79%, 5.63% of SWITZERLAND's total imports and, respectively, were up 0.22%, up 317.94%, up 0.98%, up 29.81%, down 16.30% comparing with the same period of last year.

During the current year until 202102, the trade surplus of SWITZERLAND was mainly from UNITED STATES, INDIA, THAILAND, JAPAN, SLOVENIA at 7366.6761 million, 5615.4250 million, 1134.4625 million, 556.0881 million, 478.8980 million, and up 84.98%, up 187.47%, down 177.49%, down 30.79%, down 12.19%. And the trade deficits were mainly from UNITED KINGDOM, GERMANY, ITALY, BURKINA FASO, IRELAND at 4114.0523 million, 767.9868 million, 612.8541 million, 598.9623 million, 587.5210 million, and down 475.33%, down 48.18%, down 25.48%, up 65.98%, up 68.68%.

Current year until 202102, SWITZERLAND's trade surplus or deficit with top five countries/territories During the current year until 202102,  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 29670.0659 million, 22093.2596 million, 6518.1078 million, 5714.0927 million, 4841.2280 million, which were up 20.57%, up 6.49%, up 2.41%, up 1.17%, up 9.91% comparing with the same period of last year and account for 28.97%, 21.57%, 6.36%, 5.58%, 4.73% of SWITZERLAND's total imports and exports.

During the current year until 202102, 30, 71, 29, 91, 84 were SWITZERLAND's top five traded commodities, with total import and export values of 15405.3948 million, 15116.1733 million, 4637.8330 million, 3576.6014 million, 3346.2159 million. These values correspond to 27.40%, 26.89%, 8.25%, 6.36%, 5.95% of SWITZERLAND's total exports and, respectively, were up 5.26%, up 35.26%, up 7.90%, up 2.60%, up 1.02% comparing to the same period of last year.

During the current year until 202102, 71, 30, 84, 85, 87 were SWITZERLAND's top five traded commodities, with total import values of 14553.8927 million, 6687.8648 million, 3171.8919 million, 2655.9663 million, 2444.0728 million. These values correspond to 31.50%, 14.48%, 6.87%, 5.75%, 5.29% of SWITZERLAND's total exports and, respectively, were up 8.35%, up 9.44%, up 3.92%, up 12.69%, down 4.25% comparing to the same period of last year.

2. Current year until 202102, SWITZERLAND binational trade profile

According to Dalian Infobank, during the current year until 202102, SWITZERLAND-China binational exports and imports of goods amounted to 6037.8772 million and were up 12.21% comparing with the same period of last year. Among these, exports from SWITZERLAND to China were 2899.8911 million and down 2.14%, imports from China to SWITZERLAND were 3137.9861 million and up 29.81%. The total binational trade deficit was 238.0951 million and down 143.61%.

During the urrent year until 202102, 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 1013.0820 million, 952.3135 million, 854.8338 million, 588.6391 million, 423.8642 million and makes up 16.78%, 15.77%, 14.16%, 9.75%, 7.02% of the total binational imports and exports. These values were also up 20.17%, up 27.20%, up 33.45%, up 81.86%, down 59.81% comparing to the same period last year.

During the current year until 202102, 30, 91, 71, 84, 90 were the top five traded commodities exported to China from SWITZERLAND, with export values of 979.6300 million, 500.9867 million, 320.7993 million, 271.4737 million, 179.0409 million. These values account for 33.78%, 17.28%, 11.06%, 9.36%, 6.17% of SWITZERLAND's total exports and were up 17.69%, up 107.60%, down 67.88%, up 18.70%, up 26.74% comparing to the same period of last year.

During the current year until 202102, 85, 84, 62, 29, 61 were SWITZERLAND's top five traded commodities importing from China , with import values of 777.9476 million, 583.3601 million, 228.3500 million, 200.2674 million, 170.1942 million. These values account for 24.79%, 18.59%, 7.28%, 6.38%, 5.42% of SWITZERLAND's total imports and were up 29.24%, up 41.63%, up 15.73%, up 19.80%, up 26.27% comparing with the same period of last year.

3.Analysis of import and export trends

Data Source: Federal Customs Administration