Foreign trade

Topics Economy

1,590 bn exports

1,366bn imports

€ 224 bn export surplus

Press releases

9 January 2025 Exports in November 2024: +2.1% on October 2024

In November 2024, German exports were up by 2.1% while imports were down by 3.3% on a calendar and seasonally adjusted basis compared with October 2024. Based on provisional data, the Federal Statistical Office (Destatis) also reports that exports decreased by 3.5% and imports fell by 2.9% compared with November 2023.

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Development of foreign trade by months

20 December 2024 Exports to non-EU countries in November 2024: expected increase of 5.5% on October 2024

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13 December 2024 Exports in October 2024: -2.8% on September 2024

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22 November 2024 Exports to non-EU countries in October 2024: expected decrease of 6.9% on September 2024

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18 November 2024 Exports in the 3rd quarter of 2024: +0.5% on the same quarter of the previous year

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7 November 2024 Exports in September 2024: -1.7% on August 2024

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Current news

The main German export product: motor vehicles

Accounting for 17.3% of exports, motor vehicles and parts thereof were Germany's main export product in 2023. Machinery (14.4%) and chemical products (9.0%) 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 254.2 billion euros were traded between Germany and the People's Republic of China in 2023 (exports and imports).

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Changes as of 2022

Changes to reporting obligations for ITGS from 2022 onwards

The new European Regulations on International Trade in Goods Statistics lead to major changes for providers of statistical information or reporting companies as of reporting month January 2022.

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Database

GENESIS-Online

More data on foreign trade are available from the GENESIS-Online database.

The database content will continuously be extended, and links will be provided here.

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Development of German foreign trade

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Germanys major trading partners, 2023

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The main German trading goods 2023

Experimental statistics

In the "EXSTAT – Experimental statistics section" we regularly publish new and innovative project results of the Federal Statistical Office. These are obtained by using new data sources and methods. Both the degree of maturity and quality of the results differ from those of official statistics, especially regarding harmonisation, coverage and methodology. Nonetheless these results of the statistical offices of the Federation and the Länder offer new and interesting ways of looking at various statistical topics.

Selected articles from the EXSTAT series

Smart business cycle statistics based on satellite data

Satellites can provide images of large areas of the earth’s surface at short intervals. Technological progress has substantially influenced and improved the availability and analysis of satellite data so that they are coming into play also in official statistics.

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