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Trade between Germany and Ukraine

In 2024, Germany exported $5.7 billion to Ukraine and imported $3.1 billion. Germany ran a surplus of $2.6 billion with Ukraine, compared with a surplus of $3.3 billion in 2019. Ukraine was Germany’s 48th largest trading partner (0.3% of its trade), and Germany was Ukraine’s 3rd (7%).

Summary

Germany → Ukraine
$5.7billion
Ukraine → Germany
$3.1billion
Germany’s balance
$2.6billion

Balance

Germany’s trade balance with Ukraine

Trade between Germany and Ukraine grew 6.1-fold since 1995

USD billions (current). Germany’s exports and imports; bars: its balance (green surplus, red deficit).

  • Exports 5.7
  • Imports 3.1
  • Balance +2.6

Source: CEPII BACI

Show the numbers
YearExportsImportsTrade balance
1995$1 billion$414 million$602 million
1996$1.2 billion$502 million$679 million
1997$1.4 billion$642 million$753 million
1998$1.4 billion$695 million$694 million
1999$1 billion$605 million$397 million
2000$1.2 billion$800 million$402 million
2001$1.5 billion$811 million$700 million
2002$1.9 billion$819 million$1.1 billion
2003$2.5 billion$1.5 billion$1 billion
2004$3.1 billion$1.9 billion$1.1 billion
2005$4 billion$1.4 billion$2.5 billion
2006$4.9 billion$1.5 billion$3.5 billion
2007$6.4 billion$1.9 billion$4.6 billion
2008$8.1 billion$2.1 billion$6 billion
2009$4.2 billion$1.5 billion$2.8 billion
2010$5 billion$1.8 billion$3.2 billion
2011$6.9 billion$2.1 billion$4.8 billion
2012$7 billion$1.8 billion$5.2 billion
2013$6.9 billion$1.8 billion$5.1 billion
2014$5.3 billion$1.8 billion$3.5 billion
2015$4 billion$1.6 billion$2.4 billion
2016$4.4 billion$1.6 billion$2.7 billion
2017$5.4 billion$2.1 billion$3.3 billion
2018$6.1 billion$2.6 billion$3.5 billion
2019$6 billion$2.7 billion$3.3 billion
2020$5.2 billion$2.3 billion$2.9 billion
2021$6.1 billion$3.1 billion$3.1 billion
2022$4.5 billion$2.5 billion$1.9 billion
2023$5.3 billion$2.2 billion$3 billion
2024$5.7 billion$3.1 billion$2.6 billion

What they sell each other

What Germany sells to Ukraine

The top 10 headings in 2024, with their share of the total.

  1. Cars$694 million · 12.2%
    97 thousand tonnes · Germany’s destinations
  2. Medicines in measured doses or retail packs$389 million · 6.9%
    4 thousand tonnes · Germany’s destinations
  3. Refined petroleum$264 million · 4.7%
    247 thousand tonnes · Germany’s destinations
  4. Plows, seeders and tillage machinery$131 million · 2.3%
    11 thousand tonnes
  5. Tractors$121 million · 2.1%
    15 thousand tonnes · Germany’s destinations
  6. Harvesters and farm machinery$118 million · 2.1%
    12 thousand tonnes
  7. Pesticides and herbicides$113 million · 2%
    7 thousand tonnes
  8. Trucks$103 million · 1.8%
    14 thousand tonnes · Germany’s destinations
  9. Auto parts$100 million · 1.8%
    7 thousand tonnes · Germany’s destinations
  10. Trailers$74 million · 1.3%
    24 thousand tonnes

What Ukraine sells to Germany

The top 10 headings in 2024, with their share of the total.

  1. Rapeseed (canola)$726 million · 23.7%
    1.4 million tonnes · Ukraine’s destinations
  2. Cables and wire$512 million · 16.7%
    22 thousand tonnes · Germany’s sources
  3. Furniture$137 million · 4.5%
    71 thousand tonnes · Germany’s sources
  4. Soybeans$137 million · 4.5%
    280 thousand tonnes · Ukraine’s destinations
  5. Seamless steel pipes$110 million · 3.6%
    52 thousand tonnes
  6. Corn$110 million · 3.6%
    583 thousand tonnes · Ukraine’s destinations
  7. Iron ore$65 million · 2.1%
    634 thousand tonnes · Ukraine’s destinations
  8. Frozen fruit$49 million · 1.6%
    21 thousand tonnes
  9. Fruit and vegetable juices$45 million · 1.5%
    22 thousand tonnes
  10. Sunflower, safflower and cottonseed oil$41 million · 1.3%
    26 thousand tonnes

How it travels

Estimated sea route from Hamburg to Odesa.

The estimated sea route between Hamburg and Odesa is 3,923 nautical miles (7,265 km) long: ≈ 9–11.5 days at sea (at 18 and 14 knots).

Passages it crosses: Strait of Dover, Strait of Gibraltar, Dardanelles and Bosporus.

Sailing estimate without port calls, waiting or transshipment; not a schedule. One main reference port per country: in large countries it does not represent all of its ports.

Split by transport mode

  1. Sea$7.2 billion · 81.8%
  2. Air$1.6 billion · 18.2%

Mode estimated from value per kilo and geography; both directions together.

How much each matters to the other

Ukraine was Germany’s 48th largest trading partner (0.3% of its trade), and Germany was Ukraine’s 3rd (7%).

Ukraine in Germany’s trade
0.3%
Ukraine’s rank among Germany’s partners
48th
Germany in Ukraine’s trade
7.5%
Germany’s rank among Ukraine’s partners
3rd

Compare with

Other partners of Germany

Other partners of Ukraine

Sources and methodology

Sources and licenses

Methodology

Goods trade from CEPII BACI (BACI_HS92_V202601), in current US dollars, with exports and imports reconciled between countries. The transport mode is our own estimate based on value per kilo and geography. The sea route comes from our own network derived from World Bank shipping density (not from nautical charts), between one main reference port per country (World Port Index); days are the distance at 14 and 18 knots, without port calls or waiting. Data up to 2024.