1.  Overview the trade of CROATIA in goods current year until 202307

According to Dalian Infobank, in 202307, CROATIA's exports and imports of goods amounted to 5631.9120 million, and were down 5.36% comparing with the same period of last year. Among these, exports were down 7.60% at 2039.8853 million, and imports were down 4.04% at 3592.0267 million. And the corresponding trade deficit was 1552.1415 million and up 1.08%.

During the current year until 202307, CROATIA's total exports and imports of goods were 40065.8346 million and were down 0.25% comparing to the same period of last year. Among these, exports were 14570.8031 million and up 0.74%; imports were 25495.0315 million and down 0.80%. The total trade deficit was 10924.2284 million and down 2.77%.

If considering by country (region), ITALY, GERMANY, INTRA-EU, SLOVENIA, BOSNIA & HERZEGOVINA were CROATIA's top five trading partners. During the current year until 202307, CROATIA's imports and exports to five countries/territories were 4624.2897 million, 4570.3130 million, 4091.5118 million, 3864.2769 million, 2445.1551 million. These values correspond to 11.54%, 11.41%, 10.21%, 9.64%, 6.10% of CROATIA's imports and exports, and, respectively, were down 13.13%, down 7.46%, 0, down 12.61%, down 2.98% comparing to the same period of last year.

Current year until 202307, CROATIA and the top five trade partners GERMANY, ITALY, BOSNIA & HERZEGOVINA, SLOVENIA, INTRA-EU are the top five countries/territories that CROATIA exports to in terms of the total export amount. During the current year until 202307, CROATIA's exports to these five countries/territories were 1529.6837 million, 1505.6183 million, 1447.1475 million, 1407.2103 million, 1326.9768 million. These values correspond to 10.50%, 10.33%, 9.93%, 9.66%, 9.11% of CROATIA's exports and, respectively, were down 12.72%, down 18.85%, down 1.34%, down 13.41%, 0 comparing with the same period of last year.

Current year until 202307, CROATIA's exports to top five countries/territories ITALY, GERMANY, INTRA-EU, SLOVENIA, HUNGARY are the top five countries/territories that CROATIA imports from in terms of the total export amount. During the current year until 202307, CROATIA's imports from these five countries/territories were 3118.6714 million, 3040.6293 million, 2764.5350 million, 2457.0666 million, 1385.1618 million. These values correspond to 12.23%, 11.93%, 10.84%, 9.64%, 5.43% of CROATIA's total imports and, respectively, were down 10.06%, down 4.56%, 0, down 12.14%, down 28.31% comparing with the same period of last year.

During the current year until 202307, the trade surplus of CROATIA was mainly from BOSNIA & HERZEGOVINA, MALTA, MONTENEGRO, KOSOVO, RUSSIA at 449.1398 million, 226.3546 million, 210.9698 million, 89.0426 million, 85.6712 million, and up 8.67%, up 1611.58%, up 19.67%, up 25.19%, down 123.82%. And the trade deficits were mainly from ITALY, GERMANY, INTRA-EU, SLOVENIA, CHINA at 1613.0531 million, 1510.9455 million, 1437.5582 million, 1049.8562 million, 777.7061 million, and up 0.06%, up 5.43%, 0, down 10.39%, up 0.96%.

Current year until 202307, CROATIA's trade surplus or deficit with top five countries/territories During the current year until 202307,  commodities with hs2 codes, 27, 99, 85, 84, 87, were CROATIA's top five traded commodities. They correspond to the import and export values of 5567.6596 million, 4097.3108 million, 3024.2098 million, 2944.2773 million, 2287.7212 million, which were down 32.63%, up 153233.40%, up 1.32%, up 0.11%, up 17.16% comparing with the same period of last year and account for 13.90%, 10.23%, 7.55%, 7.35%, 5.71% of CROATIA's total imports and exports.

During the current year until 202307, 27, 99, 85, 84, 44 were CROATIA's top five traded commodities, with total import and export values of 1618.4494 million, 1330.8706 million, 1222.8363 million, 1046.4851 million, 708.8526 million. These values correspond to 11.11%, 9.13%, 8.39%, 7.18%, 4.86% of CROATIA's total exports and, respectively, were down 31.09%, up 87304.78%, up 1.36%, up 5.12%, down 22.85% comparing to the same period of last year.

During the current year until 202307, 27, 99, 84, 87, 85 were CROATIA's top five traded commodities, with total import values of 3949.2102 million, 2766.4402 million, 1897.7922 million, 1845.0193 million, 1801.3735 million. These values correspond to 15.49%, 10.85%, 7.44%, 7.24%, 7.07% of CROATIA's total exports and, respectively, were down 33.23%, up 240563.40%, down 2.45%, up 20.22%, up 1.30% comparing to the same period of last year.

2. Current year until 202307, CROATIA binational trade profile

According to Dalian Infobank, during the current year until 202307, CROATIA-China binational exports and imports of goods amounted to 874.7201 million and were down 2.09% comparing with the same period of last year. Among these, exports from CROATIA to China were 48.5070 million and down 21.20%, imports from China to CROATIA were 826.2131 million and down 0.68%. The total binational trade deficit was 777.7061 million and up 0.96%.

During the urrent year until 202307, commodities with hs2 code, 85, 84, 24, 94, 90, were binational trade's top five traded commodities. They correspond to import and export values of 271.0109 million, 190.6488 million, 68.0673 million, 28.7930 million, 27.8062 million and makes up 30.98%, 21.80%, 7.78%, 3.29%, 3.18% of the total binational imports and exports. These values were also up 0.66%, down 4.06%, up 465.42%, down 27.39%, down 22.49% comparing to the same period last year.

During the current year until 202307, 44, 84, 25, 76, 23 were the top five traded commodities exported to China from CROATIA, with export values of 22.4491 million, 4.0958 million, 3.9157 million, 3.2135 million, 2.5897 million. These values account for 46.28%, 8.44%, 8.07%, 6.62%, 5.34% of CROATIA's total exports and were down 35.63%, down 28.34%, up 46.99%, up 62.60%, up 36.18% comparing to the same period of last year.

During the current year until 202307, 85, 84, 24, 94, 90 were CROATIA's top five traded commodities importing from China , with import values of 269.1035 million, 186.5530 million, 68.0672 million, 28.7587 million, 25.6981 million. These values account for 32.57%, 22.58%, 8.24%, 3.48%, 3.11% of CROATIA's total imports and were up 0.86%, down 3.34%, up 465.62%, down 27.48%, down 24.38% comparing with the same period of last year.

3.Analysis of import and export trends

Data Source: Eurostat