{"id":621033,"date":"2025-12-08T23:48:14","date_gmt":"2025-12-08T23:48:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/621033\/"},"modified":"2025-12-08T23:48:14","modified_gmt":"2025-12-08T23:48:14","slug":"german-industry-sees-modest-boost-amid-automotive-slowdown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/621033\/","title":{"rendered":"German industry sees modest boost amid automotive slowdown"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Germany\u2019s industrial sector unexpectedly ramped up production in October, data showed, despite a slowdown in the automotive industry. <\/p>\n<p>Competition from Chinese brands and Beijing\u2019s export restrictions on rare earth elements and semiconductors have squeezed Germany\u2019s flagship sector. The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.handelsblatt.com\/politik\/konjunktur\/konjunktur-deutsche-produktion-steigt-ueberraschend-stark\/100181872.html\" class=\"styles_linkEmbed__SNmaX\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">new figures<\/a> come as Berlin toughens its stance on China, while trying not to rankle its top trading partner. On a visit to China, Germany\u2019s foreign minister warned against <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tagesschau.de\/wirtschaft\/weltwirtschaft\/wadephul-china-102.html\" class=\"styles_linkEmbed__SNmaX\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Chinese subsidized EVs flooding the EU market<\/a>, while suggesting <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/articles\/2025-12-08\/germany-s-top-diplomat-touts-trade-with-china-to-start-visit\" class=\"styles_linkEmbed__SNmaX\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">some progress<\/a> in rare earth talks with Beijing. <\/p>\n<p>China is a \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dw.com\/en\/china-germany-economy-trade-fdi-car-industry\/a-74831685\" class=\"styles_linkEmbed__SNmaX\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">relationship that German industry finds hard to quit<\/a>,\u201d DW wrote: Many German firms have substantial China exposure despite Berlin\u2019s \u201cde-risking\u201d push, and aren\u2019t eager to pull out of the lucrative market. <\/p>\n<p><img src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/61cd44589b1012bbf392d94b6a9887fe3a249a1d-2132x2232.png\" alt=\"Chart showing monthly change in German manufacturing volume \" width=\"800\" height=\"837\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" fetchpriority=\"high\" class=\"styles_imageEmbed__QsLwb styles_fullContentArea__zXct_\" style=\"color:transparent\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Germany\u2019s industrial sector unexpectedly ramped up production in October, data showed, despite a slowdown in the automotive industry.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":621034,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5310],"tags":[2000,299,1824],"class_list":{"0":"post-621033","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-germany","8":"tag-eu","9":"tag-europe","10":"tag-germany"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115686625684350541","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/621033","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=621033"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/621033\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/621034"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=621033"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=621033"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=621033"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}