Top Import Sectors
2023: Germany's main imports by category included electrical, electronic equipment ($222.11B), machinery, nuclear reactors, and boilers ($176.74B), and vehicles other than railway or tramway vehicles ($159.23B). Mineral fuels, oils, and distillation products ($133.26B) also constituted a significant portion of imports.
2022: Key import commodities for Germany in 2022 included petroleum gases and other gaseous hydrocarbons (4.91%), motor cars and other motor vehicles (4.34%), and organic chemicals (4.2%). Crude petroleum and human/animal blood also were major imports. In 2022, of $146.6 billion in U.S. imports from Germany, the top commodity sectors were machinery and mechanical appliances (27.3% of the total U.S imports .
2021: Top import goods included electrical machinery ($181.35 billion), industrial machinery ($177.48 billion), and motor vehicles & parts ($135.70 billion).
2020: Germany's main imports are: computer, electronic and optical products (11 percent of total imports); motor vehicles, trailers and semi-trailers (10 percent) . In 2020, of $57.8 billion in U.S. exports to Germany, the top commodity sectors were Transportation Equipment (27.7%), Chemicals, Plastics and … .