The economic situation of trade in 2021

Nadège Ferrer-Pradines, Céline Arnold, Guillaume Arion, Bertrand Froc, Pascal Lévy, Enora Poilleux et Philippe Pottier (Insee division Commerce), Roxane Jourdain (Direction générale des Douanes et des Droits indirects), Julien Uri (Banque de France), Corinne Darmaillacq, (rapporteur de la Commission)

Documents de travail
No 2021-06
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Nadège Ferrer-Pradines, Céline Arnold, Guillaume Arion, Bertrand Froc, Pascal Lévy, Enora Poilleux et Philippe Pottier (Insee division Commerce), Roxane Jourdain (Direction générale des Douanes et des Droits indirects), Julien Uri (Banque de France), Corinne Darmaillacq, (rapporteur de la Commission)
Documents de travail No 2021-06- December 2021

In 2021, the activity in the commercial sectors improves compared to the Covid-19 year 2020. In wholesale trade, sales would catch up the 2020 losses and exceed their 2019 level. In retail trade, sales would also catch up, though unequally: the lack of tourists following the ongoing pandemic weighs upon sales in clothing, footwear, leather goods, watches and jewelry. Finally, sales motor trade would not catch up with their previous-pandemic level.