Germany: furniture import-export

According to the statistics data recently released, in the first semester of 2009 the export of furniture from Germany decreased by 15,5 per cent compared to the same period of the last year. The fall affected all the destination Countries, but in different ways. France (-3.3 percent), Austria (-4 percent) and Switzerland (-3.3 percent)were the Countries less hit by the drop.
In contrast, imports from China increased by 11,8 percent, while the fall hit all the other Countries such as Poland (-4.8 percent), Italy (-6 percent), Czech Republic (-8.4 percent), Austria (-20.6 percent).