This is one of the instances where the second largest trade partner might be more interesting.
this post was submitted on 18 Apr 2026
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Belarus and the british and russia, trading with their puppet masters
If only you saw further away...
According to the statistisches Bundesamt China and the USA are the largest trade partners of Germany, and have been for a while. I'm doubting that the other countries are more accurately displayed
Maybe it shows the netherlands as Germany's biggest trade partner, because the Chinese and American stuff comes through Dutch ports
That would be bad if true.
Probably why non EU countries are all trading the US, UK, and China.
At any rate it ignores that trade the EU does with the US, UK, and China is about 10 times the size of the trade deals measured in this map of IMF statistics. It either breaks it down as 'NL=EU' or it just omits the EU trade entirely while keeping them comparing with non-EU countries.
Ireland should actively try to trade within the EU more. Irelands biggest exports go to the US. 2nd is the Netherlands (mostly pharma) and then UK. Imports are US and UK. Neither are in the EU.
Are services counted? Would the US tech headquarters installed make the game difficult?
Not sure what's counted, but the big tech hq being there definitely makes it harder for their government to promote digital sovereignity.
I got the figures from here: https://www.cso.ie/en/releasesandpublications/ep/p-ti/irelandstradeingoods2024/toptradingpartners2024/
Finland: "Sweden, you're my best friend"
Sweden: "Thanks"
Hahahaha
Germany should be ashamed, lying in bed with most of Europe! What a slut country! /s
The baltics are just a downward line of trade :3
Spain provides the majority of vegetables to the EU.
https://www.euronews.com/my-europe/2025/08/27/which-eu-countries-are-fresh-produce-powerhouses
Stuff like this makes me wonder about the value of charts like this.
Why?
The strangest one to me is Slovenia.
When looking it up, some funny stuff is going on: in 2024 Slovenia exported $22.46b to Switzerland, $21.76b from that is pharmaceutical products. An almost 50x increase in exports in less than 10 years. https://tradingeconomics.com/slovenia/exports/switzerland
Most of that pharmaceutical trade is from "intercompany trade". https://cee.swiss/countries-slovenia/?lang=en
Some Swiss fiscal accountants are having a laugh.
There is a reason we were calling ourselves the second Switzerland. Guess this is it
Is this why we brexited, really? So we didn't have to have the German flag on our country in this map? This is the only explanation that makes any sense, 10 years later.
โ More sovereignty
โ Stronger economy
โ Better trade deal
โ Lower immigration
โ Sunlit uplands
โ๏ธ Fuck off, Germany
ThE Eu wIlL Be bEgGiNg tO MaKe tRaDe dEaLs wItH Us
Unironically probably, the "freedom to choose without EU pressure" or whatever nonsense they pretended justified it lol
I hope (as a Brit) that the UK will amend its ways after the damage we dealt ourselves through Brexit and our โspecial relationshipโ.
Agreed. This is both embarrassing and unsustainable!
Economic victory!
So everybody loves Germany, and Germany loves France.
And then there is UKโฆ
Sad Canada noises
That's The Netherlands not France?
Rotates head
Oh snap your right
Ikr? Canada's right there. Shameful...
Still nowhere shameful as Brexit in general, but ya know.
I wish we did more exchanging with Canadia, it's a shame.
I assume Switzerland is exporting legal tax avoidance to the US?
Interesting that the source for this disagrees with the Norwegian statistics bureau of which they got the data from.
If should be the UK for Norway, not Germany. It has traditionally been Germany but post-brexit and the Ukraine war has made UK buy a lot more gas from Norway, overtaking Germany in trade volume very ever so slightly (like 0.1% difference)
Some would say that Germany achieved the economical win they could get via military back in the days
Casually ignoring the Single Market, which surely is of no significance when it comes to trade. Seems to be a pattern at Visual Capitalist.
Huh i thought iceland would have been sweden cause most products i saw over there that i could easily identify were swedish but i guess the ones that looked icelandic were imported from the netherlands.
Thank you for the infographic, I love these
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