1.  Overview the trade of SWITZERLAND in goods current year until 202104

According to Dalian Infobank, in 202104, SWITZERLAND's exports and imports of goods amounted to 58528.1256 million, and were up 20.20% comparing with the same period of last year. Among these, exports were up 30.17% at 31529.5722 million, and imports were up 10.33% at 26998.5534 million. And the corresponding trade surplus was 4531.0189 million and down 1923.09%.

During the current year until 202104, SWITZERLAND's total exports and imports of goods were 229805.9077 million and were up 17.04% comparing to the same period of last year. Among these, exports were 123288.8803 million and up 19.40%; imports were 106517.0274 million and up 14.43%. The total trade surplus was 16771.8529 million and up 64.87%.

If considering by country (region), GERMANY, UNITED STATES, UNITED KINGDOM, CHINA, INDIA were SWITZERLAND's top five trading partners. During the current year until 202104, SWITZERLAND's imports and exports to five countries/territories were 38798.3618 million, 28319.9236 million, 18646.8522 million, 15169.4856 million, 14982.2295 million. These values correspond to 16.88%, 12.32%, 8.11%, 6.60%, 6.52% of SWITZERLAND's imports and exports, and, respectively, were up 9.43%, down 5.79%, up 64.43%, up 45.97%, up 289.18% comparing to the same period of last year.

Current year until 202104, 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 202104, SWITZERLAND's exports to these five countries/territories were 19960.2785 million, 18439.7093 million, 14275.4325 million, 8742.5210 million, 6317.3654 million. These values correspond to 16.19%, 14.96%, 11.58%, 7.09%, 5.12% of SWITZERLAND's exports and, respectively, were down 14.53%, up 9.90%, up 342.85%, up 62.52%, up 26.56% comparing with the same period of last year.

Current year until 202104, SWITZERLAND's exports to top five countries/territories GERMANY, UNITED KINGDOM, UNITED STATES, ITALY, CHINA are the top five countries/territories that SWITZERLAND imports from in terms of the total export amount. During the current year until 202104, SWITZERLAND's imports from these five countries/territories were 20358.6525 million, 15227.1759 million, 8359.6452 million, 7494.6721 million, 6426.9646 million. These values correspond to 19.11%, 14.30%, 7.85%, 7.04%, 6.03% of SWITZERLAND's total imports and, respectively, were up 9.01%, up 111.72%, up 24.66%, up 14.70%, up 28.21% comparing with the same period of last year.

During the current year until 202104, the trade surplus of SWITZERLAND was mainly from INDIA, UNITED STATES, CHINA, THAILAND, SLOVENIA at 13568.6354 million, 11600.6333 million, 2315.5564 million, 1683.5487 million, 1373.0437 million, and up 422.40%, down 30.32%, up 531.55%, down 154.39%, up 34.15%. And the trade deficits were mainly from UNITED KINGDOM, GERMANY, SOUTH AFRICA, KYRGYZSTAN, ITALY at 11807.4997 million, 1918.9431 million, 1228.8538 million, 1194.1435 million, 1177.3067 million, and up 287.91%, up 1.12%, up 697.60%, down 76269.98%, down 23.67%.

Current year until 202104, SWITZERLAND's trade surplus or deficit with top five countries/territories During the current year until 202104,  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 73426.8102 million, 47040.7168 million, 14482.2615 million, 11699.6168 million, 10169.0790 million, which were up 26.11%, up 5.42%, up 16.01%, up 2.97%, up 19.29% comparing with the same period of last year and account for 31.95%, 20.47%, 6.30%, 5.09%, 4.43% of SWITZERLAND's total imports and exports.

During the current year until 202104, 71, 30, 29, 84, 91 were SWITZERLAND's top five traded commodities, with total import and export values of 35491.0097 million, 33066.5084 million, 9269.4026 million, 7568.0749 million, 7548.0543 million. These values correspond to 28.79%, 26.82%, 7.52%, 6.14%, 6.12% of SWITZERLAND's total exports and, respectively, were up 39.53%, up 5.61%, up 6.15%, up 16.34%, up 43.83% comparing to the same period of last year.

During the current year until 202104, 71, 30, 84, 85, 87 were SWITZERLAND's top five traded commodities, with total import values of 37935.8005 million, 13974.2084 million, 6914.1867 million, 5578.1834 million, 5452.0189 million. These values correspond to 35.61%, 13.12%, 6.49%, 5.24%, 5.12% of SWITZERLAND's total exports and, respectively, were up 15.70%, up 4.98%, up 15.64%, up 22.21%, up 26.85% comparing to the same period of last year.

2. Current year until 202104, SWITZERLAND binational trade profile

According to Dalian Infobank, during the current year until 202104, SWITZERLAND-China binational exports and imports of goods amounted to 15169.4856 million and were up 45.97% comparing with the same period of last year. Among these, exports from SWITZERLAND to China were 8742.5210 million and up 62.52%, imports from China to SWITZERLAND were 6426.9646 million and up 28.21%. The total binational trade surplus was 2315.5564 million and up 531.55%.

During the urrent year until 202104, commodities with hs2 code, 71, 85, 30, 84, 91, were binational trade's top five traded commodities. They correspond to import and export values of 3620.2044 million, 1922.8712 million, 1875.8102 million, 1836.2169 million, 1294.4453 million and makes up 23.87%, 12.68%, 12.37%, 12.10%, 8.53% of the total binational imports and exports. These values were also up 190.01%, up 30.71%, up 1.82%, up 29.87%, up 97.56% comparing to the same period last year.

During the current year until 202104, 71, 30, 91, 84, 90 were the top five traded commodities exported to China from SWITZERLAND, with export values of 3406.8767 million, 1828.5484 million, 1087.2114 million, 670.9898 million, 424.6178 million. These values account for 38.97%, 20.92%, 12.44%, 7.68%, 4.86% of SWITZERLAND's total exports and were up 212.11%, up 1.16%, up 109.94%, up 30.53%, up 29.00% comparing to the same period of last year.

During the current year until 202104, 85, 84, 62, 29, 61 were SWITZERLAND's top five traded commodities importing from China , with import values of 1556.9937 million, 1165.2271 million, 449.3198 million, 413.5654 million, 338.8535 million. These values account for 24.23%, 18.13%, 6.99%, 6.43%, 5.27% of SWITZERLAND's total imports and were up 34.06%, up 29.49%, up 17.69%, up 24.01%, up 21.78% comparing with the same period of last year.

3.Analysis of import and export trends

Data Source: Federal Customs Administration