580,000 Enterprises in Intra-Community Trade
Slightly more than 580,000 enterprises in Germany received goods from other EU member states or delivered goods to other EU member states in 2009. This means that the number of enterprises engaged in intra-Community trade was slightly down from the previous year (585,000). Just under 486,000 enterprises imported goods from other EU member states, while some 239,000 enterprises acted as exporters.
As reported by the Federal Statistical Office (Destatis), only 31 enterprises had a turnover in intra-Community trading of more than one billion euros. Last year, 42 companies were above this threshold. The share of these enterprises in total exports amounted to 25.3%, against 28.4 percent last year. As to imported goods, 37 enterprises reached a turnover of more than one billion euros, and a 22 percent share of total imports from other EU member countries. This share corresponded to last year’s level.
Regarding shipments to other EU countries, just under 168,000 enterprises achieved a turnover of less than 100,000 euros in 2009. So 70 percent of all companies engaged in EU export trading achieved a total share of under 1 percent in terms of value. Compared to this figure, more than 400,000 (83%) of all German enterprises, which import goods from the EU, had imports amounting to less than 100,000 euros. The share of these enterprises in total imports from the EU was 1.4 percent.
Destatis, exports, exporters, imports, intra-Community trade, Statistical Office
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