By Maria Martinez<\/p>\n
BERLIN, Jan 9 (Reuters) – German exports unexpectedly fell in November as shipments to other European Union countries and the U.S. dropped, \u200bwhile industrial output rose despite expectations for a decline, official data showed \u200con Friday.<\/p>\n
Exports from Europe’s biggest economy fell by 2.5% in November compared with the previous month, according \u200cto the federal statistics office.<\/p>\n
Analysts polled by Reuters had expected no change.<\/p>\n
Imports were up 0.8% on a calendar- and seasonally-adjusted basis.<\/p>\n
The foreign trade balance showed a surplus of 13.1 billion euros ($15.26 billion) in November 2025, down from 17.2 billion euros in October and \u206020.0 billion euros in November \u200c2024.<\/p>\n
EXPORTS TO THE US FALL, IMPORTS FROM CHINA UP<\/p>\n
Exports to the U.S. and EU countries both dropped by 4.2% on the \u200dmonth, while exports to countries outside the bloc declined by 0.2%.<\/p>\n
Compared with November 2024, U.S. exports were down 22.9% on a calendar- and seasonally-adjusted basis.<\/p>\n
The U.S. administration imposed a 15% import \u200btariff on most goods from the EU under a deal reached with the \u200c27-nation bloc in July.<\/p>\n
Imports from China rose 8.0% compared with the previous month.<\/p>\n
The influx of imports has gathered momentum since U.S. President Donald Trump imposed tariffs on China.<\/p>\n
INDUSTRIAL PRODUCTION UNEXPECTEDLY RISES<\/p>\n
German industrial production unexpectedly rose in November, growing by 0.8% from October, the federal statistics office also reported on Friday.<\/p>\n
Analysts polled by Reuters had predicted \u2060a 0.4% fall.<\/p>\n
German industrial orders climbed 5.6% on \u200bthe previous month in November, driven by large-scale \u200borders, data showed on Thursday.<\/p>\n
Franziska Palmas, senior Europe economist at Capital Economics, said the data confirmed that conditions in German industry improved \u200dtowards the end of \u2060last year, but did not expect that upturn to last.<\/p>\n
“Given the significant structural headwinds facing the sector, we doubt this is the start of a \u2060sustained recovery and still expect German industrial output to decline in the medium term,” Palmas said.<\/p>\n
($1 = \u200c0.8585 euros)<\/p>\n
(Additional reporting by Anastasiia Kozlova, Emanuele Berro and Bernadette Hogg in \u200cGdanskEditing by Miranda Murray and Tomasz Janowski)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"By Maria Martinez BERLIN, Jan 9 (Reuters) – German exports unexpectedly fell in November as shipments to other…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":684227,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5310],"tags":[2000,299,153445,118695,123052,1824,207185,139487],"class_list":{"0":"post-684226","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-european-union-countries","11":"tag-german-exports","12":"tag-german-industry","13":"tag-germany","14":"tag-industrial-output","15":"tag-u-s-exports"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115864590260038896","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/684226","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=684226"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/684226\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/684227"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=684226"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=684226"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=684226"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}