Germany’s foreign trade 2010: export +18.5%; import +19.9%

In 2010 Germany exported goods worth 952.0 billion euro and imported goods worth 797.1 billion euro. That means that Germany's exports increased by 18.5% and its imports by 19.9% in 2010 compared with 2009.
In 2010 the foreign trade balance closed with a surplus of 154.9 billion euro. In 2009 the foreign trade balance surplus amounted to +138.7 billion euro.

The current account of the balance of payment – according to provisional calculations of Deutsche Bundesbank – closed with a surplus of 129.9 billion euro in 2010. In 2009 the surplus recorded by Germany amounted to 119.9 billion euro.
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