🇩🇪 German Chancellor Friedrich Merz welcomes the deal:
“This protects our export-heavy industries—especially auto manufacturing.”

With car tariffs dropping from 27.5% to 15%, Germany breathes a sigh of relief.

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💸 The weak US dollar is turning into a "profit killer" for major German exporters.

Since February, the euro has strengthened 14% against the dollar — hurting competitiveness and reducing euro-denominated profits.

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High-level lobbying? #GermanIndustry

💸 11 billion euros in state guarantees? Gone.

Siemens Energy just pulled off a major financial power move—quietly, confidently, and years ahead of schedule.

Here’s why that matters (and how they did it) 🧵

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Exclusive-China’s rare earth export curbs risk halting German car production, lobby group warns BERLIN (Reuters) -Germany’s auto lobby warned on Tuesday that export restrictions by China on rare earths alloys, mixtures and magnets posed a serious risk to the industry and could cause production delays and outages if a solution was not found quickly. Slow granting of export licenses, as well as lags in customs clearance of exports with valid licenses, was causing significant problems for automakers, the head of auto lobby VDA, Hildegard Mueller, said in a statement to Reuters, marking the first time the lobby has warned of an impending stop to output. Diplomats, automakers and other executives from India, Japan and Europe are urgently seeking meetings with Beijing officials to push for faster approval of rare earth magnet exports, sources told Reuters earlier on Tuesday, after China imposed new rules in April demanding exporters obtain licenses from Beijing. "Although some licenses have now been granted, this is currently insufficient to ensure smooth production... If the situation is not changed quickly, production delays and even production outages can no longer be ruled out," Mueller said.

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This is part of a wider trend:

German firms like VW, Porsche, Deutz are entering the defence market.

What was once taboo is now a booming business.

#GermanIndustry #MilitaryEconomy

German Machine Tool Industry with Muted Annual Results 2024 | M4S News - First for engineering intelligence. Orders received by the German machine tool industry in the fourth quarter of 2024 were 7 percent down on the previous year's figure. Orders from both Germany and abroad fell by similar amounts: 7 perc...

German Machine Tool Orders Slip in 2024, but Hopes Rise for Late-Year Recovery m4snews.com/news/german-... #VDW #MachineTools #GermanIndustry

🌎💼 The 1970s and 1980s were a time of economic turmoil in Latin America—high inflation, debt crises, and shifting industrial policies made foreign investment risky. How did multinational corporations respond?
doi.org/10.1080/0007... by Christian Marx @unitrier.bsky.social

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German industry expects severe hit from Trump tariffs FRANKFURT/BERLIN (Reuters) - Far-reaching tariffs announced by the U.S. administration will deal a major blow to the German industry, a major exporter to the world’s top economy, leading sector representatives said. "To be very honest with you: we will feel it," Dirk Jandura, president of Germany’s BGA association representing importers and exporters. "We will have to translate the tariffs into price increases, and in many cases that means a drop in sales." The comment came after U.S. President Donald Trump announced sweeping duties on most global trading partners, including a 20% tariff on products from the European Union, while there is a separate 25% tariff for car imports. The move marks the rejection of "the rules-based global trade order - and thus turning away from the basis for global value creation and corresponding growth and prosperity in many regions of the world," said Hildegard Mueller, president of the German auto industry association VDA. "This is not America first, this is America alone," she said, adding the blow from the tariffs would be felt globally and cost jobs. ($1 = 0.9136 euros)

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German industry seeks fresh start in challenging times – DW – 03/29/2025 Hanover industrial trade fair takes place in a year of political upheaval, the Germany economy in recession and US threats to global trade rules. But perhaps that's precisely why it's so important this time.

#Germanindustry: fresh start in challenging times.
#Hanover industrial trade fair takes place in a year of political upheaval, the Germany economy in recession and US threats to global trade rules. Perhaps that's precisely why it's so important this time. p.dw.com/p/4sPoV?maca...

German Industry Crisis Deepens: Manufacturing Revenue Falls 3.8% as Companies Shift Production Abroad | AI News Brew <p>DÜSSELDORF, Germany - German industrial companies are facing significant challenges as new data reveals a 3.8% decline in revenue during 2024, marking six consecutive quarters of negative growth, a...

German Industry Crisis Deepens: Manufacturing Revenue Falls 3.8% as Companies Shift Production Abroad haiku.ainewsbrew.com/article/3284

#GermanIndustry #Manufacturing #EconomicCrisis #IndustrialJobs #Mittelstand #EuropeanEconomy #GlobalTrade #BusinessNews #IndustrialProduction #EconomicTrends

German automation sales set to drop by 9% in 2025, after a 6% fall in 2024 - Drives&Controls Revenues in Germany’s robotics and automation industry will plummet by 9% this year to a total of €13.8m, according to the trade body that represents the sector, VDMA Robotics + Automation. This predi...

German automation sales set to drop by 9% in 2025, after a 6% fall in 2024 #Germanmanufacturing #Germanindustry #industrialautomation #robotics drivesncontrols.news/dcamlq3o

Green #hydrogen : Robert Habeck, Green Party candidate for Chancellor, argues that the steel industry in Germany has no future with Union concepts, and coal production is unlikely in 2030.

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Induction furnace pouring smelt in the ladle. #GermanIndustry #metallurgy Glück auf.