{"id":315278,"date":"2026-02-24T20:21:16","date_gmt":"2026-02-24T20:21:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/315278\/"},"modified":"2026-02-24T20:21:16","modified_gmt":"2026-02-24T20:21:16","slug":"german-car-exports-to-china-plunge-by-a-third-in-2025-says-economic-institute","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/315278\/","title":{"rendered":"German car exports to China plunge by a third in 2025, says economic institute"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>BERLIN, Feb 24 \u2014 German car exports to China plunged by roughly a third in 2025, extending a steep decline that has wiped out more than half the sector\u2019s shipments since their 2022 peak, according to a study released by the German Economic Institute (IW) on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>Exports of cars and parts fell to under \u20ac14 billion (RM64.3 billion) last year, down from nearly \u20ac30 billion three years earlier, underscoring the rapid erosion of Germany\u2019s foothold in its most important foreign market.<\/p>\n<p>Carmakers \u2014 which make up Germany\u2019s largest industrial sector \u2014 are facing their toughest test in decades, squeezed by higher US import tariffs, weak demand in Europe, a costly transition to electric vehicles and an intensifying price war in China.<\/p>\n<p>The IW data comes as Chancellor Friedrich Merz travels to China for the first time, a closely watched trip expected to shed light on how Europe\u2019s biggest economy seeks to recalibrate ties with its largest trading partner amid mounting competitive and geopolitical strains. \u2014 Reuters\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BERLIN, Feb 24 \u2014 German car exports to China plunged by roughly a third in 2025, extending a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":315279,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[72,114,113,8856,8864,147238,147236,147237,61,60],"class_list":{"0":"post-315278","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-economy","8":"tag-business","9":"tag-china","10":"tag-economy","11":"tag-electric-vehicles","12":"tag-friedrich-merz","13":"tag-geopolitical-strains","14":"tag-german-car-exports","15":"tag-german-economic-institute","16":"tag-ie","17":"tag-ireland"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/315278","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=315278"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/315278\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=315278"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=315278"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=315278"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}