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Trade between France and Greece

In 2024, France exported $4.3 billion to Greece and imported $1.4 billion. France ran a surplus of $2.9 billion with Greece, compared with a surplus of $1.4 billion in 2019. Greece was France’s 40th largest trading partner (0.4% of its trade), and France was Greece’s 6th (4%).

Summary

France → Greece
$4.3billion
Greece → France
$1.4billion
France’s balance
$2.9billion

Balance

France’s trade balance with Greece

Trade between France and Greece grew 2-fold since 1995

USD billions (current). France’s exports and imports; bars: its balance (green surplus, red deficit).

  • Exports 4.3
  • Imports 1.4
  • Balance +2.9

Source: CEPII BACI

Show the numbers
YearExportsImportsTrade balance
1995$2.2 billion$667 million$1.5 billion
1996$2.4 billion$641 million$1.7 billion
1997$2.5 billion$524 million$1.9 billion
1998$2.7 billion$508 million$2.2 billion
1999$3.2 billion$482 million$2.7 billion
2000$2.3 billion$453 million$1.8 billion
2001$2 billion$516 million$1.5 billion
2002$2.1 billion$627 million$1.5 billion
2003$3.1 billion$628 million$2.5 billion
2004$3.5 billion$740 million$2.7 billion
2005$3.3 billion$696 million$2.6 billion
2006$3.9 billion$997 million$2.9 billion
2007$4.6 billion$922 million$3.7 billion
2008$5.3 billion$1.1 billion$4.2 billion
2009$4.3 billion$862 million$3.4 billion
2010$3.4 billion$885 million$2.5 billion
2011$3.5 billion$1.1 billion$2.4 billion
2012$2.7 billion$926 million$1.8 billion
2013$2.9 billion$895 million$2 billion
2014$2.8 billion$875 million$2 billion
2015$2.3 billion$751 million$1.6 billion
2016$2.1 billion$745 million$1.4 billion
2017$2.3 billion$867 million$1.4 billion
2018$2.5 billion$1.2 billion$1.3 billion
2019$2.7 billion$1.3 billion$1.4 billion
2020$2.8 billion$2.1 billion$615 million
2021$3.1 billion$2.1 billion$1 billion
2022$3.5 billion$1.5 billion$2 billion
2023$3.8 billion$1.6 billion$2.2 billion
2024$4.3 billion$1.4 billion$2.9 billion

What they sell each other

What France sells to Greece

The top 10 headings in 2024, with their share of the total.

  1. Medicines in measured doses or retail packs$403 million · 9.4%
    6 thousand tonnes · France’s destinations
  2. Cars$313 million · 7.3%
    26 thousand tonnes · France’s destinations
  3. Fresh beef$203 million · 4.7%
    34 thousand tonnes
  4. Refined petroleum$175 million · 4.1%
    164 thousand tonnes · France’s destinations
  5. Airplanes and helicopters$173 million · 4%
    105 tonnes · France’s destinations
  6. Electron tubes and valves$138 million · 3.2%
    6 tonnes
  7. Ethers and organic peroxides$127 million · 2.9%
    114 thousand tonnes
  8. Makeup and skin care$121 million · 2.8%
    3 thousand tonnes · France’s destinations
  9. Hot-rolled flat steel$88 million · 2.1%
    110 thousand tonnes
  10. Yachts and pleasure boats$87 million · 2%
    2 thousand tonnes

What Greece sells to France

The top 10 headings in 2024, with their share of the total.

  1. Medicines in measured doses or retail packs$244 million · 17.2%
    6 thousand tonnes · Greece’s destinations
  2. Cheese$94 million · 6.6%
    12 thousand tonnes · France’s sources
  3. Copper pipes$88 million · 6.2%
    8 thousand tonnes
  4. Fresh fish$69 million · 4.9%
    11 thousand tonnes
  5. Aluminum sheet$63 million · 4.4%
    18 thousand tonnes
  6. Preserved fruit and nuts$58 million · 4.1%
    27 thousand tonnes
  7. Aluminum oxide and hydroxide$57 million · 4%
    130 thousand tonnes
  8. Industrial fatty acids and oils$47 million · 3.3%
    40 thousand tonnes
  9. Aluminum bars and profiles$40 million · 2.8%
    10 thousand tonnes
  10. Other plastic sheets$30 million · 2.2%
    6 thousand tonnes

How it travels

Estimated sea route from Le Havre to Piraeus.

The estimated sea route between Le Havre and Piraeus is 2,749 nautical miles (5,091 km) long: ≈ 6.5–8 days at sea (at 18 and 14 knots).

Passages it crosses: Strait of Gibraltar.

Sailing estimate without port calls, waiting or transshipment; not a schedule. One main reference port per country: in large countries it does not represent all of its ports.

Split by transport mode

  1. Sea$4.4 billion · 76.6%
  2. Air$1.3 billion · 23.4%

Mode estimated from value per kilo and geography; both directions together.

How much each matters to the other

Greece was France’s 40th largest trading partner (0.4% of its trade), and France was Greece’s 6th (4%).

Greece in France’s trade
0.4%
Greece’s rank among France’s partners
40th
France in Greece’s trade
4%
France’s rank among Greece’s partners
6th

Compare with

Other partners of France

Other partners of Greece

Sources and methodology

Sources and licenses

Methodology

Goods trade from CEPII BACI (BACI_HS92_V202601), in current US dollars, with exports and imports reconciled between countries. The transport mode is our own estimate based on value per kilo and geography. The sea route comes from our own network derived from World Bank shipping density (not from nautical charts), between one main reference port per country (World Port Index); days are the distance at 14 and 18 knots, without port calls or waiting. Data up to 2024.