BERLIN: Germany exported a record 1.13 trillion euros ($1.28 trillion) worth of goods and services last year – 3.7 percent more than in 2013, according to figures released Monday by the country’s statistics office, Destatis.
Imports increased by 2 percent to 915.6 billion euros, and a German economic think tank, the Ifo Institute, calculated that the resulting trade surplus in 2014 of about 217 billion euros was the highest of all countries in the world, with China and Saudi Arabia coming in at a distant second and third.
