As reported by the Federal Statistical Office, German exports into the ten new EU Member States rose 27.0 percent to EUR 19.1 billion in the first quarter of 2006 compared with the same quarter a year earlier.
Altogether, German exports rose 16.3 percent to EUR 215.6 billion on the first quarter of 2005.
Regarding the trade with the new Member States, German exports to Poland (+33.6 percent to EUR 6.4 billion), Hungary (+26.6 percent to EUR 3.8 billion) and the three Baltic states (together +46.4 percent to EUR 1.0 billion) saw the strongest increase.
Exports into the 25 EU Member States were up 15.0 percent to EUR 137.6 billion in the first quarter of 2006 on the same period a year earlier. Compared with total German exports, however, their rise was below average.
This trend was even more striking for the 15 “old“ EU Member States: Exports into those countries increased 13.3 percent to EUR 118.5 billion.
Exports into the large partner countries France (+10.1 percent to EUR 21.9 billion) and the United Kingdom (+7.8 percent to EUR 16.6 billion) were however far from reaching the EU-25 growth rate while exports into the Netherlands (+22.0 percent to EUR 13.7 billion) increased above average.
Exports to the USA in the first quarter of 2006 saw a particularly strong increase (+22.3 percent to EUR 19.3 billion) compared with the first quarter of 2005.
On the whole, German imports were up 23.5 percent to EUR 175.7 billion in the first quarter of 2006 on the same quarter of 2005. Imports from the EU-25 countries rose below average (+17.4 percent to EUR 110.3 billion).
Imports from China (+39.0 percent to EUR 11.9 billion) rose by far more considerably than a year earlier (first quarter of 2005 on the same period in 2004: +26.9 percent to EUR 8.6 billion).
Imports from the USA, too, rose by far more strongly on the first quarter of 2005 (+25.5 percent to EUR 11.6 billion) compared to a year earlier (first quarter of 2005 on the corresponding period in 2004: +1.8 percent to EUR 9.3 billion).
Federal Statistical Office Germany
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