Growth in March was a particularly impressive 6.7%. German electronics imports also rose that month by 8.4%.
Driving the growth in exports were goods shipped to industrialised countries. China remains the biggest buyer (€5.1bn) of German electronics. But the largest percentage increase (12.7%) came in exports to the US, which purchased €4.7m of German electronic products.
“The Q1 figures show how resistant the German electronics industry is proving to the current global economic uncertainty,” said Jerome Hull, expert for the German electronics and microtechnology industry at Germany Trade & Invest (GTAI). “What’s more the increases came across the board to the ten countries to which Germany exports the most electronic goods.”