Exports: Germany Achieves a Large Surplus in Trade with the USA

With its tariffs Donald Trump actually wanted to get other countries to import more from the USA. With regard to Germany, this does not seem to have worked.

It is figures like these that anger the US President: In the first three months of the year, the Federal Republic of Germany exported goods worth many billion euros more to the US than it imported from there.

American buyers rushed to purchase weapons and ammunition from Bosnia and Herzegovina before the tariffs imposed by President Donald Trump come into effect. This is how new data on trade between BiH and the USA could be understood, reports BiznisInfo.ba. Namely, exports from BiH to the USA in the first four months of this year amounted to around 104 million KM, which is 71 percent more than in the same period last year. Of this, by far the most,…

The trade figures for Europe's largest economy coincide with the resumption of talks on a trade agreement between Brussels and Washington.

For more than three decades, Germany has achieved export surpluses in foreign trade with the USA every year. Even at the beginning of the year 2025 and thus before the entry into force of higher tariffs on exports to the United States, the German export surplus was considerable: in the first quarter of 2025, goods worth 41.2 billion euros were exported from Germany to the USA and goods worth 23.5 billion euros were imported from there. As the Fe…

It is figures that US President Trump should not like: The recent German export surplus in trade with the US is enormous. Whether higher tariffs will change anything will be evident.