US Chamber of Commerce to Help Companies Access German Market

For U.S. exporters, Germany is the largest single market in the 25-country European Union with machinery export sales of $3 billion in 2003. These exports represented 11 percent of the $26.5 billion in U.S. manufactured merchandise exports to Germany in 2003.

The U.S. Chamber of Commerce points out that American companies interested in exporting products to Germany should do their homework to make sure they know precisely which standards apply to their products. As the largest market with the most stringent standards in Europe, Germany's existing standards