Germany's government said Wednesday it was looking at backing a liquefied natural gas terminal, the statement coming as President Donald Trump pushes Berlin to buy American instead of Russian gas.
Germany could take the United States to court if Washington goes ahead with plans to tax imports, Economy Minister Brigitte Zypries said Friday, hours before Chancellor Angela Merkel's first meeting with Donald Trump.
Germany's exports and imports rose to new monthly records in July, official data showed on Tuesday, underlining the
robustness of Europe's top economy in the current stormy global economic seas.
Destatis on Thursday blamed the timing of the school holidays for the sharpest drop in exports in more than five years. The news has dampened forecasts for Europe's biggest economies.
Germany’s business leaders launched an attack against the economic policies of the coalition government on Friday, ahead of talks with Chancellor Angela Merkel.
UPDATE: The EU Commission said on Wednesday that Germany's huge current account surplus is a source of economic imbalance in Europe as Berlin appeared to be admit for the first time that there was a problem.
Germany's trade surplus soared to a new record high in 2013, although export momentum tailed off at the end of the year, official data showed on Friday.
German factory orders jumped in February, driven by buoyant domestic and export demand, suggesting that rising confidence in Europe's biggest economy may finally be reaching the real economy, analysts said on Friday.
German exports and imports fell sharply in April as Europe's biggest economy begins to feel the effects of the long-running eurozone debt crisis, data showed on Friday. Analysts said the monthly data were worse than expected.
South Korea's Samsung LED said on Sunday it had asked the US International Trade Commission to ban US imports of goods made by Osram due to a patent row with the German lighting firm.
German retailers are reporting the first shortfalls in imports of electronic goods from Japan, two months after a devastating earthquake crippled factories there.
Contrary to previous reports that Germany needs electricity from abroad after suspending operations at eight ageing nuclear reactors, the Federal Environment Agency (UBA) said Wednesday that the country can power itself.
German imports hit a record high level in November, slashing the national trade surplus as a global recovery drove up prices for oil and other commodities, official data showed on Friday.
The German Customs Investigation Bureau (ZKA) has Pelikan, a writing utensil maker, in its sights for using protected rainforest wood Ramin for paint brush handles, broadcaster ARD reported on Monday.
German import prices climbed higher in April, gaining 0.9 percent from the previous month, figures released Wednesday by the national statistics office showed.
