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A satisfactory foreign trade performance for the dairy sector

In the 2006 calendar year German milk and milk products amounting to 4.404 billion euros were sold abroad. This figure does not include trade turnover. This meant that exports rose by 4.4 % to a new record high, and German dairies achieved 21 % of their turnover abroad. The milk industry is the biggest export sector in the German foodstuffs sector. According to the German Federal Statistics Office, the foodstuffs sector as a whole sold goods to the value of 21.69 billion euros abroad.

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Significance of foreign trade for the milk and dairy industry

2006: Slight increase in sales

In the 2006 calendar year, the Federal Statistics Office confirms that the sales of the German milk industry amounted to € 20.97 billion. This was € 423 million higher than the figure for the previous year. The reason for this is the higher level of milk supply and therefore milk processing. Unit prices sank slightly. Export was the factor that encouraged growth. At approximately 21 %, the export quota of the German milk industry reached its peak. ...

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Exports, Federal Republic of Germany *)
2005 / 2006 (tons)

		January - Dezember 2009	Januar - Dezember 2010		Shifts as a %

Milk	EU	2,461,480	2,479,199		0.7%
	Non-EU countries	73,385	89,065		21.4%
	Total	2,534,864	2,568,264		1.3%

Milk concentrate, unsweetened	EU	172,543	182,180		5.6%
	Non-EU countries	75,508	82,199
	Total	248,050	264,379		6.6%


Source: Federal Bureau of Statistics, Federal Ministry for Agriculture, Central Market and Price Reporting Office, Association of Dairy Producers

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