{"id":412597,"date":"2025-09-10T07:46:13","date_gmt":"2025-09-10T07:46:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/412597\/"},"modified":"2025-09-10T07:46:13","modified_gmt":"2025-09-10T07:46:13","slug":"chinese-goods-redirected-to-germany-because-of-u-s-tariffs-researchers-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/412597\/","title":{"rendered":"Chinese goods redirected to Germany because of U.S. tariffs, researchers say"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"yf-1090901\">By Rene Wagner and Maria Martinez<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-1090901\">BERLIN (Reuters) -Germany is increasing purchases of Chinese goods in several price-sensitive categories as U.S. tariff moves roil global trade flows, according to a study by the Institute for Employment Research IAB seen by Reuters on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-1090901\">During the October to June period, price- and calendar-adjusted figures show notable increases year-on-year in German imports from China, led by copper (+91%), apparel (+24%) and toys, games and sporting goods (+12%), according to IAB&#8217;s analysis based on data from the German statistics office.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-1090901\">&#8220;We have not yet been flooded with Chinese goods across the board,&#8221; said Enzo Weber, head of the IAB research unit forecasts and macroeconomic analyses. &#8220;However, there are some product groups where noticeable effects can be seen.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-1090901\">In the first seven months of 2025, imports from China rose by 10.5% to 97.6 billion euros, growing at more than twice the pace of total imports, which increased by 4.9% from January to July to around 796.6 billion euros.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-1090901\">The import tilt toward China could intensify price competition in Germany and squeeze margins, especially in sectors where Chinese producers enjoy a structural cost advantage, economists warn in the study.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-1090901\">(Reporting by Rene Wagner and Maria Martinez, editing by Ludwig Burger)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"By Rene Wagner and Maria Martinez BERLIN (Reuters) -Germany is increasing purchases of Chinese goods in several price-sensitive&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":412598,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5310],"tags":[141808,2000,299,141807,1824,64059,141809,141810],"class_list":{"0":"post-412597","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-germany","8":"tag-chinese-goods","9":"tag-eu","10":"tag-europe","11":"tag-german-imports","12":"tag-germany","13":"tag-iab","14":"tag-institute-for-employment-research-iab","15":"tag-sporting-goods"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115178896353933578","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/412597","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=412597"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/412597\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/412598"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=412597"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=412597"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=412597"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}