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Bodenheim (dpa) - The global corona pandemic and punitive tariffs in the USA have slowed German wine exports in 2020.
There were significant declines in many foreign markets, as the German Wine Institute (DWI) in Bodenheim near Mainz announced on Thursday.
In 2020, compared to 2019, both the exported German wine volume and its value decreased by nine percent each to 953,000 hectoliters and 277 million euros.
In their most important export market, the USA, German wine producers suffered a loss in value of 19 percent or twelve million euros because of the punitive tariffs.
"This corresponds to 42 percent of the worldwide sales decline in German wine exports", explained the DWI.
The quantities of wine exported to the USA only decreased by six percent (9,000 hectoliters) because the "market participants on both sides of the Atlantic have absorbed part of the 25 percent increase in prices caused by the tariff".
According to the DWI, the negative signs in export revenues with German wines in foreign markets such as the Netherlands (minus five percent), China (minus three percent) and Canada (minus nine percent) were probably due to the corona.
On the other hand, wine exports to Scandinavia developed positively in 2020.
With an increase of 26 percent in export value, Norway consolidated its second place in the ranking of wine export markets - after the USA and ahead of the third-placed Netherlands.
In Sweden there was an export value increase of 3 percent, in Finland of 14 percent and in Denmark as much as 30 percent.
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