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Economy Foreign trade

1,328 bn exports

€ 1,104 bn imports

€ 224 bn export surplus

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Press releases

9 December 2020 Exports in October 2020: +0.8% on September 2020

In October 2020, German exports were up 0.8% and imports 0.3% on September 2020 after calendar and seasonal adjustment. Based on provisional data, the Federal Statistical Office (Destatis) also reports that, after calendar and seasonal adjustment, exports were by 6.8%, and imports by 5.2%, lower than in February 2020, the month before restrictions were imposed due to the corona pandemic in Germany.

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Development of foreign trade by months

27 November 2020 New Year's Eve 2020: 30,700 tonnes of pyrotechnic articles imported already

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9 November 2020 Exports in September 2020: +2.3% on August 2020

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28 October 2020 USA as a trading partner: German exports up 6% since 2017

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8 October 2020 Exports in August 2020: +2.4% on July 2020

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17 September 2020 Foreign trade in electric vehicles increases: exports up 72% in 2019 compared with the previous year

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The main German export product: motor vehicles

Accounting for 16.9% motor vehicles and parts thereof of exports, was Germany's main export product in 2019. Machinery (14.8%) and computer, electronics and optical products (8.9%) ranked second and third, respectively, among the most important export items.

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The People's Republic of China is again Germany's main trading partner

According to final results, goods worth 206.0 billion euros were traded between Germany and the People's Republic of China in 2019 (exports and imports).

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Germany's major trading partners

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The main German trading goods (export)