The particularly sharp collapse in German exports appears to reflect a combination of unfavourable transient factors, rather than a fundamental and permanent loss of competitiveness. This won’t prevent the economy from contracting very sharply this year. But it does suggest that Germany should still be relatively well positioned when global trade finally starts to recover.
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