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Re:Why Germany Still Has So Many Middle-Class Manufacturing ... by lispm on Sunday May 28, 2017 @03:45PM (#14435785)
As I said Germany was already the world's second largest exporter in 1960. Behind the US, which has 4 times the population.

Germany then became the largest exporter in 86, 87, 88, 90, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008.

In 2016 Germany is the third largest exporter after China and the US. The account surplus (goods, services and investments) was the largest, next is China.

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Re:Why Germany Still Has So Many Middle-Class Manufacturing ... by crdoconnor on Sunday May 28, 2017 @03:57PM (#14435832)
Where is this data?
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Re:Why Germany Still Has So Many Middle-Class Manufacturing ... by lispm on Sunday May 28, 2017 @04:14PM (#14435902)
For example: https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exportweltmeister

https://unstats.un.org/unsd/trade/imts/Historical%20data%201...

Percentage of world exports in 1960:

United States 16%

West Germany 9%

UK 7.8%

France 5.4%

https://www.wto.org/english/res_e/booksp_e/wtr13-2b_e.pdf

Percentage of world merchandize exports in 1980:

USA 11%

West Germany 9.5%

Japan 6.4%

China 0.9%

Thus the claim that Germany is a leading exporter because of Euro currency manipulation fails to explain why Germany was one of the leading exporters in the 60s, 70s, 80s, 90s, 2000s and 2010s. In all those years it was in the top three.

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