Annual International Trade Statistics by Country (HS)
Publication date: 2024-01-28
Reporting period: 2002 - 2023
Timeseries: 194 million
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Germany | Imports and Exports | World | ALL COMMODITIES | Value (US$) and Value Growth, YoY (%) | 2007 - 2018

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The value of merchandise exports from Germany totalled $ 1.56 trillion in 2018. Merchandise exports from Germany increased by 7.72% compared to 2017. Goods exports grew up by $ 112 billion in 2018 (the value of merchandise exports from Germany amounted to $1.45 trillion in 2017)

Germany's exports 2018 by country

Top export destinations of commodities from Germany in 2018:

  • USA with a share of 8.59% (134 billion US$)
  • France with a share of 7.95% (124 billion US$)
  • China with a share of 7.06% (110 billion US$)
  • Netherlands with a share of 6.37% (99 billion US$)
  • United Kingdom with a share of 6.18% (96 billion US$)
  • Italy with a share of 5.27% (82 billion US$)
  • Austria with a share of 4.81% (75 billion US$)
  • Poland with a share of 4.78% (74 billion US$)
  • Switzerland with a share of 4.19% (65 billion US$)
  • Spain with a share of 3.34% (52 billion US$)

Exports structure from Germany in 2018 represented by the following main commodity groups:

  • 17.4% (273 billion US$): 84 - Nuclear reactors, boilers, machinery and mechanical appliances; parts thereof
  • 16.9% (264 billion US$): 87 - Vehicles other than railway or tramway rolling stock, and parts and accessories thereof
  • 10.5% (165 billion US$): 85 - Electrical machinery and equipment and parts thereof; sound recorders and reproducers, television image and sound recorders and reproducers, and parts and accessories of such articles
  • 6.2% (96 billion US$): 30 - Pharmaceutical products
  • 5.13% (80 billion US$): 90 - Optical, photographic, cinematographic, measuring, checking, precision, medical or surgical instruments and apparatus; parts and accessories thereof
  • 4.2% (65 billion US$): 39 - Plastics and articles thereof
  • 2.66% (41 billion US$): 88 - Aircraft, spacecraft, and parts thereof
  • 2.41% (37 billion US$): 99 - Commodities not specified according to kind
  • 2.14% (33 billion US$): 73 - Articles of iron or steel
  • 2.13% (33 billion US$): 27 - Mineral fuels, mineral oils and products of their distillation; bituminous substances; mineral waxes

What did Germany export in 2018?

Germany's Top Exports in 2018:

  • 9.9% ($154 billion): 8703 - Motor cars and other motor vehicles principally designed for the transport of persons (other than those of heading 87.02), including station wagons and racing cars
  • 4.32% ($67 billion): 8708 - Parts and accessories of the motor vehicles of headings 87.01 to 87.05
  • 3.57% ($55 billion): 3004 - Medicaments (excluding goods of heading 30.02, 30.05 or 30.06) consisting of mixed or unmixed products for therapeutic or prophylactic uses, put up in measured doses (including those in the form of transdermal administration systems) or in forms or packings for retail sale
  • 1.94% ($30 billion): 8802 - Other aircraft (for example, helicopters, aeroplanes); spacecraft (including satellites) and suborbital and spacecraft launch vehicles
  • 1.88% ($29 billion): 3002 - Human blood; animal blood for therapeutic, prophylactic or diagnostic uses; antisera, other blood fractions, immunological products, modified or obtained by biotechnological processes; vaccines, toxins, cultures of micro-organisms (excluding yeasts) etc
  • 1.16% ($18.2 billion): 8479 - Machines and mechanical appliances having individual functions, not specified or included elsewhere in this Chapter
  • 1.07% ($16.7 billion): 8542 - Electronic integrated circuits and microassemblies
  • 1% ($15.7 billion): 8471 - Automatic data processing machines and units thereof; magnetic or optical readers, machines for transcribing data onto data media in coded form and machines for processing such data, not elsewhere specified or included
  • 0.997% ($15.5 billion): 9018 - Instruments and appliances used in medical, surgical, dental or veterinary sciences, including scintigraphic apparatus, other electro-medical apparatus and sight-testing instruments

The value of merchandise imports to Germany totalled $ 1.29 trillion in 2018. Merchandise imports to Germany increased by 10.5% compared to 2017. Goods imports grew up by $ 123 billion in 2018 (the value of merchandise imports to Germany was equal to $1.16 trillion in 2017)

Germany's imports 2018 by country

Top trading partners (import sources) of Germany in 2018:

  • China with a share of 9.8% (126 billion US$)
  • Netherlands with a share of 8.11% (104 billion US$)
  • USA with a share of 6.05% (78 billion US$)
  • France with a share of 5.97% (77 billion US$)
  • Italy with a share of 5.51% (71 billion US$)
  • Poland with a share of 5.04% (65 billion US$)
  • Czech Republic with a share of 4.36% (56 billion US$)
  • Switzerland with a share of 4.27% (55 billion US$)
  • Belgium with a share of 4.13% (53 billion US$)
  • Austria with a share of 3.82% (49 billion US$)

Imports structure to Germany in 2018 represented by the following main commodity groups:

  • 12.9% (167 billion US$): 84 - Nuclear reactors, boilers, machinery and mechanical appliances; parts thereof
  • 12.4% (161 billion US$): 85 - Electrical machinery and equipment and parts thereof; sound recorders and reproducers, television image and sound recorders and reproducers, and parts and accessories of such articles
  • 10.2% (132 billion US$): 87 - Vehicles other than railway or tramway rolling stock, and parts and accessories thereof
  • 9.1% (117 billion US$): 27 - Mineral fuels, mineral oils and products of their distillation; bituminous substances; mineral waxes
  • 4.48% (58 billion US$): 30 - Pharmaceutical products
  • 3.79% (49 billion US$): 39 - Plastics and articles thereof
  • 3.59% (46 billion US$): 29 - Organic chemicals
  • 3.45% (44 billion US$): 90 - Optical, photographic, cinematographic, measuring, checking, precision, medical or surgical instruments and apparatus; parts and accessories thereof
  • 2.56% (33 billion US$): 72 - Iron and steel
  • 1.99% (25 billion US$): 73 - Articles of iron or steel

What did Germany import in 2018?

Germany's Top Imports in 2018:

  • 4.8% ($62 billion): 8703 - Motor cars and other motor vehicles principally designed for the transport of persons (other than those of heading 87.02), including station wagons and racing cars
  • 3.48% ($45 billion): 2709 - Petroleum oils and oils obtained from bituminous minerals, crude
  • 3.43% ($44 billion): 8708 - Parts and accessories of the motor vehicles of headings 87.01 to 87.05
  • 2.61% ($33 billion): 2711 - Petroleum gases and other gaseous hydrocarbons
  • 2.21% ($28 billion): 3004 - Medicaments (excluding goods of heading 30.02, 30.05 or 30.06) consisting of mixed or unmixed products for therapeutic or prophylactic uses, put up in measured doses (including those in the form of transdermal administration systems) or in forms or packings for retail sale
  • 1.99% ($25 billion): 2710 - Petroleum oils and oils from bituminous minerals, not crude; preparations n.e.c. containing by weight 70% or more of petroleum oils or oils from bituminous minerals; these being the basic constituents of the preparations; waste oils
  • 1.91% ($24 billion): 8471 - Automatic data processing machines and units thereof; magnetic or optical readers, machines for transcribing data onto data media in coded form and machines for processing such data, not elsewhere specified or included
  • 1.89% ($24 billion): 3002 - Human blood; animal blood for therapeutic, prophylactic or diagnostic uses; antisera, other blood fractions, immunological products, modified or obtained by biotechnological processes; vaccines, toxins, cultures of micro-organisms (excluding yeasts) etc
  • 1.88% ($24 billion): 8517 - Electrical apparatus for line telephony or line telegraphy, including line telephone sets with cordless handsets and telecommunication apparatus for carrier-current line systems or for digital line systems; videophones

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Germany | Imports and Exports | World | ALL COMMODITIES | Value (US$) and Value Growth, YoY (%) | 2007 - 2018