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Wiesbaden (dpa) - Even in the Corona crisis, China remains Germany's most important trading partner.
The Federal Statistical Office announced that goods worth 212.1 billion euros were traded between the two countries last year.
While exports to China fell slightly by 0.1 percent to 95.9 billion euros compared to the previous year, imports rose by 3.0 percent to 116.3 billion euros despite the pandemic.
The import surplus amounted to 20.4 billion euros.
The USA remained the most important buyer of German goods, with exports there falling by 12.5 percent to 103.8 billion euros within a year.
China and France followed as export destinations.
In the USA business there was also the highest German export surplus with a single state of 36.1 billion euros.
The most important German export goods remained cars, machines and chemical products even in the generally weak year of foreign trade.
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The German electrical industry also continues to do excellent business with the People's Republic of China.
With an increase of 6.5 percent to 23.3 billion euros, exports to the most important customer market developed even more dynamically in 2020 than before the crisis.
In general, the industry association ZVEI registered a strong year-end spurt, so that total exports in the industry only fell by 5.7 percent year-on-year to 202.7 billion euros.
Imports fell by 2.1 percent to 189.9 billion euros, so that the bottom line is an export surplus of almost 13 billion euros.
That was the lowest value since 2003.
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