Foreign media: Data from the German Federal Statistics Office shows that the Sino-German trade volume reached 251 billion euros in mid-2025, an increase of 2.2% year-on-year, with China surpassing the United States to become Germany's largest trading partner.
Germany imported goods worth about 170.6 billion euros from China, more than twice its exports to China of 81.3 billion euros. Meanwhile, the Sino-US trade volume was 240 billion euros, declining by 5% due to factors such as Trump's tariffs.
German automotive companies are highly dependent on the Chinese market, for example, Volkswagen stated that China is its "second home market". Although the EU has tried to reduce its reliance on Chinese manufacturing through measures such as tariffs, the complex attitude of Germany in trade policy is due to the huge interests of the automotive and other industries in China.
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