In 2023, Germany imported around 157.2 billion euros worth of goods from China. This was a decrease compared to 2022, which showed the highest value within this time period, at almost 193 billion euros worth of imported goods. Germany also exported around 97 billion euros worth of goods to China, which was a decrease of almost nine percent compared to 2022. The volume of all imports and exports between Germany and China has therefore fallen by more than 15 percent in 2023 compared to the previous year. Nevertheless, China is still, and has been since 2026, Germany's most important foreign trade partner in terms of total foreign trade volume.

Exports in Germany decreased to 131.10 EUR Billion in April from 133.30 EUR Billion in March of 2025. This dataset provides - Germany Exports - actual values, historical data, forecast, chart, statistics, economic calendar and news.

The timeline shows the total value of U.S. trade in goods (export and import) with Germany from 2000 to 2024. In 2024, the total value of U.S. trade in goods with Germany amounted to about 236 billion U.S. dollars; composed of exports worth 75.6 billion U.S. dollars and imports of 160.4 billion U.S. dollars.

Germany's total Exports in 2024 were valued at US$1.69 Trillion, according to the United Nations COMTRADE database on international trade. Germany's main export partners were: the United States, France and the Netherlands. The top three export commodities were: Vehicles other than railway, tramway; Machinery, nuclear reactors, boilers and Electrical, electronic equipment. Total Imports were valued at US$1.43 Trillion. In 2024, Germany had a trade surplus of US$258.07 Billion.

Key information about Germany Total Exports

• Germany Total Exports recorded 133.8 USD bn in Jan 2025, compared with 138.7 USD bn in the previous month
• Germany Total Exports data is updated monthly, available from Jan 1957 to Jan 2025, with an averaged value of 32.0 USD bn
• The data reached an all-time high of 145.4 USD bn in Feb 2023 and a record low of 651.9 USD mn in Jan 1957

CEIC converts monthly Total Exports into USD. Federal Statistics Office Germany provides Total Exports, FOB, in EUR. Federal Reserve Board average market exchange rate is used for currency conversions. Total Exports prior to January 1990 cover West Germany only and prior to January 1960 exclude Saarland.


Further information about Germany Total Exports

• In the latest reports, Germany Total Exports dropped 0.1 % YoY in Jan 2025
• Total Imports recorded 117.2 USD bn in Jan 2025, which registered an increase of 8.7 % year on year
• Germany Trade Balance recorded a surplus of 16.6 USD bn in Jan 2025

Germany exports for 2023 were 1.964 trillion US dollars, a 3.05% increase from 2022.

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<li>Germany exports for 2022 were <strong>1.906 trillion US dollars</strong>, a <strong>2.76% increase</strong> from 2021.</li>
<li>Germany exports for 2021 were <strong>1.855 trillion US dollars</strong>, a <strong>20.19% increase</strong> from 2020.</li>
<li>Germany exports for 2020 were <strong>1.543 trillion US dollars</strong>, a <strong>7.99% decline</strong> from 2019.</li>
</ul>Exports of goods and services represent the value of all goods and other market services provided to the rest of the world. They include the value of merchandise, freight, insurance, transport, travel, royalties, license fees, and other services, such as communication, construction, financial, information, business, personal, and government services. They exclude compensation of employees and investment income (formerly called factor services) and transfer payments. Data are in current U.S. dollars.

Between 1933 and 1939, Germany expanded and strengthened its trade connections with a number of Eastern European countries to a point where their economic expansion became dependent on trade with Germany, making it the dominant economic power in the region. By 1939, the year the Second World War began in Europe, Germany was the largest trading partner of the four countries listed; this was also true of Czechoslovakia in 1937, Poland in 1938, and the Soviet Union in 1940, although the share of total exports to Germany from these countries was lower. German influence increases in the Second World War To consolidate its power in the region, Germany exported its high-quality industrial products to these countries and paid above-market prices to import raw materials and agricultural produce. Following the outbreak of the war, Germany invested more into the farming sectors of the four countries listed, to the point where they were economically subordinate and considered satellite extensions of the German economy. The demand for agricultural imports from these countries impeded their industrialization and prevented them from developing their industries that could compete with Germany. Three of the countries listed would side with the Axis powers as the war escalated. At the same time, Yugoslavia was quickly annexed, and a puppet government was installed, continuing the agricultural supply to Germany. Post-war difficulties Following the war, the four listed countries eventually fell within the Soviet sphere of influence (though Yugoslavia to a lesser extent than the other three), and the dominance of agricultural sectors led to difficulties, as new communist governments attempted to take their economies in a more industrialized direction. The socialist economic systems required the agricultural means of production to be publicly owned (collectivized); however, many rural landowners were unwilling to part from their land; especially in Bulgaria. These factors exacerbated the delaying effect that Germany had had on these countries' industrialization in the 1930s, contributing to the economic imbalances that emerged between Europe's Eastern and Western Blocs in the decades that followed.

This statistic compares the import and export value of food and beverages to and from Germany, from 1998 to 2023. In 2023, Germany exported food and beverages worth roughly 81 billion euros, based on preliminary figures.

This statistic shows the value of Germany's exports from 2013 to 2023 in billion U.S. dollars. In 2023, Germany's exports amount to **** billion U.S. dollars.

Germany's total Imports in 2024 were valued at US$1.43 Trillion, according to the United Nations COMTRADE database on international trade. Germany's main import partners were: China, the Netherlands and the United States. The top three import commodities were: Electrical, electronic equipment; Machinery, nuclear reactors, boilers and Vehicles other than railway, tramway. Total Exports were valued at US$1.69 Trillion. In 2024, Germany had a trade surplus of US$258.07 Billion.

In 2024, Germany imported 81.7 terawatt hours of electricity and exported 50.7 terawatt hours. Imports had increased compared to the year before, the opposite was true for exports.

Germany Exports: Volume: Other Goods data was reported at 2,717,452.300 Tonne in Dec 2023. This records a decrease from the previous number of 3,391,537.900 Tonne for Nov 2023. Germany Exports: Volume: Other Goods data is updated monthly, averaging 2,751,586.750 Tonne from Jan 2008 (Median) to Dec 2023, with 192 observations. The data reached an all-time high of 3,393,366.400 Tonne in Jul 2014 and a record low of 1,805,711.700 Tonne in Jan 2009. Germany Exports: Volume: Other Goods data remains active status in CEIC and is reported by Statistisches Bundesamt. The data is categorized under Global Database’s Germany – Table DE.JA003: Trade Statistics: Volume.

This statistic compares the import and export volume of confectionery products to and from Germany from 2009 to 2023. In 2023, Germany imported roughly 1.6 million tons of confectionery (including long-life baked goods and ice cream).

230 Germany export shipment records of Import data with prices, volume & current Buyer's suppliers relationships based on actual Germany export trade database.

This statistic compares the import and export volume of fireworks to and from Germany from 2006 to 2023. In 2023, around 39.95 thousand tons of fireworks were imported to and 8.4 thousand tons exported from Germany.

Germany trade balance for 2023 was 181.28 billion US dollars, a 74.37% increase from 2022.

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<li>Germany trade balance for 2022 was <strong>103.96 billion US dollars</strong>, a <strong>53.65% decline</strong> from 2021.</li>
<li>Germany trade balance for 2021 was <strong>224.31 billion US dollars</strong>, a <strong>6.51% increase</strong> from 2020.</li>
<li>Germany trade balance for 2020 was <strong>210.60 billion US dollars</strong>, a <strong>5.62% decline</strong> from 2019.</li>
</ul>External balance on goods and services (formerly resource balance) equals exports of goods and services minus imports of goods and services (previously nonfactor services). Data are in current U.S. dollars.

The study deals with the changes in the regional structure of Germany’s foreign trade as well as with the causes of these changes between 1880 and 1938. In this context the regional development of german import and export by continents, regions and counties for the major German tradepartners is described. After that the regional development of the trade flows of all major import- and exportproducts is analysed. The German foreign trade therefore is examined on the basis of the goods on the one hand and on the other on the basis of the countries. For the analysis the researcher collected the data (time series) for the important goods and commodity groups. Further more he developed a consistent definition of the commodity groups, so that they are comparable.
Mehtodology a) Definition and Problem:The following processes hab been defined as structural change:- fundamental shifts in the composition of foreign trade partners, as well as- meaningful and sustained change of direction or volume of important commodities and products that affect the trade with countries or regions. b) Temporal Delimination:Period of investigation is from 1880 to 1938. The statistics for the war years 1914-1918 and 1939 and for the post-war years 1919-1924 have not been included in the analysis because values were not covered or values are very incomplete or unreliable coused by inflation and other circumstances of that period. c) Changes of Territory:The data of the German trade statistics refer from 1880 to February 1906 to the German custom territory, which comprised since 1872 the territory of the German Customs Union, consisting of the 26 states, the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg and the Austrian municipalities Jungholz and Mittelberg. The free port areas of Hamburg, Bremerhaven, Geestermünde and Helgoland and parts of the municipality of Hamburg and Cuxhaven did not belong to the German custum territory.Since March 1906 the german trade statistics collected data of the foreign merchandise traffic of the entire German economic area, consists until the Versailler contract of the area of the German Empire including the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg and the Austrian municipalities Jungholz and Mittelberg, excluding Helgoland and the badenese Custum boards. Since 1920 the official trade statistics reports the values of the foreign trade for the German Empire in its new borders. That is to say, the regions of Alsace-Lorraine, the Free City of Danzig, and parts of the Prussian provinces of East Prussia, West Prussia, Brandenburg, Pomerania, Silesia, Posen, Schleswig-Holstein, the Rhine province, the territory of Luxembourg and for the years 1919 to 1935, the Saarland no longer belong to the German economic territory. The expansion of the German Empire territory between 1938 and 1939 by the annexation of Austria, Sudetenland, Bohemia, Moravia, and the Memel territory has been kept out of consideration. For the analysis of the German foreign trade the values of german imports and exports published by the Statistical Office of the German Empire has been used. While comparing the pre-1914 values with values after the first World War, it is important to reconsider the lost of major agricultural areas of East-Germany, which restricts the comparison and it’s explanatory power or validity. On the other hand these changes reveals the changes of Germany’s foreign trade structure. Thus, it becomes obvious how the separation of large agricultural and farming land increased Germany’s import dependency in the food sector as well as Germany’s decreased export opportunities of agricultural products. d) System of commodity groups: The problem of published German trade values of the Official Statistics of the German Empire is, that commodity groups are not defined in terms of their content. Insofar as the information is about single goods (eg.: rye, copper, cotton, etc.), the values are reliable. This is not the case as soon as the information is about commodity groups, such as ‘food’, ‘textiles’, ‘metal goods’, etc., because the structure of the aggregation of specific goods to a commodity group has changed six times over the period of investigation. The list of countries in the german foreign trade statistics has changed as well. Therfore, the author had to revised commodity groups and country lists for the purpose of its analysis and to make them comparable. The author developed the following scheme in order to sort countries into groups or regions: - Europe:Denmarc, Norway, Sweden, Finnland = North EuropeNetherlands, Belgium/Luxembuorg, Great Britain, France, Swizerland = West EuropeJugoslawia, Hungary, Rumania, Bulgaria, Albania, Greek, european and asiatic Turkey = South-East EuropePortugal, Spane, Italy = South EuropePoland, Tschechoslowakia, Russia, Baltic States = East EuropAustria-Hungary - America:Canada, United States of America = North-AmericaMexico, Costarica, Duba, Dominican Republic, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua, Haiti, El Salvador = Ce...

Throughout the early 20th century, Germany and Japan were both among the largest trading partners of the United States. Although the United States would declare war on Germany twice and on Japan once during this time, at which points trade would virtually cease, trade ties were fairly strong in the years without war. Values were highest in the 1920s, before global trade fell in the 1930s due to the impact of the Great Depression. All three countries were severely hit by the Depression, however the decline in trade was compounded by rising tensions between the U.S. and the new far-right governments of both Germany and Japan. After the war, U.S. investment in both nations increased significantly, helping with their post-war recovery and giving the U.S. a strong level of influence over its former adversaries - West Germany and Japan would then emerge as the two largest economies in their respective regions during the post-World War II economic boom.

Germany Electricity Imports: Belgium and Luxembourg data was reported at 318,406.000 MWh in Jan 2025. This records an increase from the previous number of 243,945.000 MWh for Dec 2024. Germany Electricity Imports: Belgium and Luxembourg data is updated monthly, averaging 6.000 MWh from Jan 1991 (Median) to Jan 2025, with 409 observations. The data reached an all-time high of 559,089.000 MWh in Jun 2024 and a record low of 0.000 MWh in Jul 2020. Germany Electricity Imports: Belgium and Luxembourg data remains active status in CEIC and is reported by Statistisches Bundesamt. The data is categorized under Global Database’s Germany – Table DE.RB007: Electricity Imports and Exports.

Key information about Germany Total Imports

• Germany Total Imports recorded 117.2 USD bn in Jan 2025, compared with a value of 117.0 USD bn in the previous month
• Germany Total Imports data is updated monthly, available from Jan 1957 to Jan 2025, with an average number of 28.4 USD bn
• The data reached an all-time high of 136.0 USD bn in Aug 2022 and a record low of 591.4 USD mn in May 1958

CEIC converts monthly Total Imports into USD. Federal Statistics Office Germany provides Total Imports, CIF, in EUR. Federal Reserve Board average market exchange rate is used for currency conversions. Total Imports prior to January 1990 cover West Germany only and prior to January 1960 exclude Saarland.


Further information about Germany Total Imports

• In the latest reports, Germany Total Imports grew 8.7 % YoY in Jan 2025
• Total Exports dropped 0.1 % YoY, to 133.8 USD bn in Jan 2025
• Germany Trade Balance recorded a surplus of 16.6 USD bn in Jan 2025