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German Breweries
A Tradition of Variety, Flavor and Excellence
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Germany
exports almost 11.5% of its beer production. It sends almost 1.5% of its
beer output (about 12.1 million hectoliters or 1.5 million U.S. barrels)
to the United States alone, making the U.S. Germany's second-most imortant
beer export market, after Italy and before France. Conversely, in the U.S.,
which imports 12 to 13% (roughly 27 million hectoliters or 24 million barrels)
of all its beers, one in every twenty of those imports is German. German
beer shipments to the U.S. represent an annual trade value of about $U.S.
150 million.
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German
Beer Exports | |||||||
|
Year |
1997 |
1998 |
1999 |
2000 |
2001 |
2002 |
2003 |
|
Volume in 1,000 hl |
9.3 |
8.9 |
9.5 |
10.8 |
10.8 |
11.1 |
12.1 |
|
% of Volume |
8 |
8 |
8.4 |
9.8 |
10 |
10.2 |
11.4 |
|
German
Beer Exports in 1000 hl by country | |||||||
|
Year |
1997 |
1998 |
1999 |
2000 |
2001 |
2002 |
2003 |
|
Italy |
1.6 |
1.6 |
1.6 |
1.7 |
2.2 |
2.4 |
2.6 |
|
U.S. |
1.2 |
1.3 |
1.4 |
1.5 |
1.5 |
1.5 |
1.5 |
|
France |
1.1 |
1.2 |
1.1 |
1.1 |
0.9 |
2.4 |
0.9 |
|
Holland |
0.8 |
0.7 |
0.5 |
0.5 |
0.8 |
0.8 |
0.7 |
|
Spain |
0.6 |
0.8 |
0.8 |
0.9 |
0.9 |
1.3 |
0.8 |
