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Overseas Trade: Germany

Commons · Question 67823 · Tabled 15 Jul 2025 · Department for Business and Trade · Official record

Answered 21 Jul 2025

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Asked by Gregory Campbell

To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, what assessment he has made of the potential implications for his policies of the Bundesbank's report entitled What’s behind the sustained decline in German export market shares?, published on 14 July

Answer

Answered by Douglas Alexander, 21 Jul 2025

Germany is the UK’s second-largest trading partner globally. We recognise the importance of resolving trade frictions between the UK and Germany where they occur. Our new UK-Germany Treaty, signed on 17 July, has economic growth and industrial collaborati...