Germany’s most important trading partners 2010

About 71% of exports of goods "made in Germany" were shipped to European countries. 60% of all goods were delivered to the member states of the European Union. The second important sales market for German goods in 2010 was Asia with a share of about 16%, followed by America, with a share of approximately 10%. Africa and Australia / Oceania only accounted for small percentages of German exports (2% and 1%, respectively).

The majority of German imports also came from Europe (68%), followed by Asia (21%) and America (9%). Goods from Africa and Australia / Oceania played just a subordinate role in imports too (2% and 0.4%, respectively).

In 2010 the top country of destination for German exports was France followed by the United States and the Netherlands. Germany exported goods worth 89.6 billion euro to France (9.4% of total German exports), 65.6 billion euro to the United States (6.9%) and 63.0 billion euro to the Netherlands (6.6%).

Most of the goods imported to Germany originated from People's Republik of China. The countries ranking second and third were the Netherlands and France. Germany imported goods worth 77.3 billion euro from People's Republik of China (9.7% of total German imports), 67.2 billion euro from the Netherlands (8.4%) and 60.7 billion euro from France (7.6%).