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Trade between Slovakia and the United States

In 2024, Slovakia exported $6.3 billion to the United States and imported $1.7 billion. Slovakia ran a surplus of $4.6 billion with the United States, compared with a surplus of $2.1 billion in 2019. The United States was Slovakia’s 7th largest trading partner (4% of its trade), and Slovakia was the United States’ 57th (0.2%).

Summary

Slovakia → United States
$6.3billion
United States → Slovakia
$1.7billion
Slovakia’s balance
$4.6billion

Balance

Slovakia’s trade balance with the United States

Trade between Slovakia and the United States grew 22.1-fold since 1995

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

  • Exports 6.3
  • Imports 1.7
  • Balance +4.6

Source: CEPII BACI

Show the numbers
YearExportsImportsTrade balance
1995$152 million$214 million-$62 million
1996$147 million$191 million-$44 million
1997$179 million$363 million-$184 million
1998$183 million$367 million-$184 million
1999$194 million$280 million-$87 million
2000$260 million$255 million$6 million
2001$253 million$272 million-$19 million
2002$289 million$342 million-$52 million
2003$1.1 billion$422 million$658 million
2004$1.4 billion$455 million$897 million
2005$1.1 billion$449 million$677 million
2006$2.2 billion$837 million$1.3 billion
2007$2.4 billion$1 billion$1.4 billion
2008$1.3 billion$1 billion$336 million
2009$657 million$540 million$118 million
2010$1.1 billion$576 million$504 million
2011$1.5 billion$696 million$783 million
2012$1.8 billion$682 million$1.1 billion
2013$1.8 billion$689 million$1.1 billion
2014$2.1 billion$852 million$1.2 billion
2015$2.2 billion$776 million$1.4 billion
2016$2.5 billion$755 million$1.7 billion
2017$3 billion$881 million$2.1 billion
2018$4 billion$793 million$3.2 billion
2019$3.1 billion$956 million$2.1 billion
2020$5.4 billion$952 million$4.4 billion
2021$4.8 billion$966 million$3.8 billion
2022$6.1 billion$1.2 billion$4.9 billion
2023$6.1 billion$1.4 billion$4.7 billion
2024$6.3 billion$1.7 billion$4.6 billion

What they sell each other

What Slovakia sells to the United States

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

  1. Cars$4.5 billion · 71.4%
    232 thousand tonnes · Slovakia’s destinations
  2. New tires$306 million · 4.8%
    51 thousand tonnes · Slovakia’s destinations
  3. Auto parts$112 million · 1.8%
    7 thousand tonnes · Slovakia’s destinations
  4. Other industrial machines$86 million · 1.4%
    1 thousand tonnes
  5. Transmission shafts, gears and gearboxes$79 million · 1.3%
    4 thousand tonnes
  6. Transformers and power supplies$78 million · 1.2%
    1 thousand tonnes
  7. Cables and wire$60 million · 0.95%
    4 thousand tonnes · Slovakia’s destinations
  8. Air pumps, compressors and fans$56 million · 0.88%
    5 thousand tonnes
  9. Water heaters and industrial dryers$42 million · 0.66%
    1 thousand tonnes
  10. Parts for broadcast equipment$41 million · 0.65%
    64 tonnes

What the United States sells to Slovakia

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

  1. Airplanes and helicopters$365 million · 21%
    192 tonnes · the United States’ destinations
  2. Coal$232 million · 13.4%
    895 thousand tonnes · the United States’ destinations
  3. Cars$173 million · 10%
    5 thousand tonnes · the United States’ destinations
  4. Vaccines, blood and antisera$85 million · 4.9%
    280 tonnes · the United States’ destinations
  5. Medicines in measured doses or retail packs$76 million · 4.4%
    59 tonnes · the United States’ destinations
  6. Medical and dental instruments$60 million · 3.5%
    340 tonnes · the United States’ destinations
  7. Mirrors and rear-view mirrors$37 million · 2.1%
    400 tonnes
  8. Auto parts$28 million · 1.6%
    1 thousand tonnes · the United States’ destinations
  9. Crude petroleum$26 million · 1.5%
    36 thousand tonnes · the United States’ destinations
  10. Orthopedic and hearing devices$26 million · 1.5%
    58 tonnes

How it travels

Estimated sea route from Koper (Slovenia) to Los Angeles.

The estimated sea route between Koper (Slovenia) and Los Angeles is 9,203 nautical miles (17,044 km) long: ≈ 21.5–27.5 days at sea (at 18 and 14 knots).

Passages it crosses: Strait of Gibraltar and Panama Canal.

Slovakia is landlocked: it ships through Koper (Slovenia).

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$6.6 billion · 81.1%
  2. Air$1.5 billion · 18.9%

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

How much each matters to the other

The United States was Slovakia’s 7th largest trading partner (4% of its trade), and Slovakia was the United States’ 57th (0.2%).

The United States in Slovakia’s trade
3.7%
The United States’ rank among Slovakia’s partners
7th
Slovakia in the United States’ trade
0.2%
Slovakia’s rank among the United States’ partners
57th

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Other partners of Slovakia

Other partners of the United States

Sources and methodology

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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.