This is one of the instances where the second largest trade partner might be more interesting.

Belarus and the british and russia, trading with their puppet masters

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

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.

Finland: "Sweden, you're my best friend"

Sweden: "Thanks"

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

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.

❌ More sovereignty

❌ Stronger economy

❌ Better trade deal

❌ Lower immigration

❌ Sunlit uplands

✔️ Fuck off, Germany

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.

So everybody loves Germany, and Germany loves France.

And then there is UK…

Sad Canada noises

I hope (as a Brit) that the UK will amend its ways after the damage we dealt ourselves through Brexit and our “special relationship”.

Economic victory!

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)

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.

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.

Shame on Ireland.

Thank you for the infographic, I love these

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