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Bavaria is the largest recipient of Russian imports in Germany.
From January to September, more than a fifth (22.0 percent) of goods imported from the warring country went to the Free State, as the Federal Statistical Office announced on Wednesday.
This corresponds to a value of 6.6 billion euros.
In total, Germany imported goods from Russia worth 30.2 billion euros in the nine months to September.
In a nationwide comparison, Brandenburg comes in second with a share of 14.2 percent (EUR 4.2 billion), followed by North Rhine-Westphalia with 11.7 percent (EUR 3.5 billion).
Volumes fell sharply in the nine months due to the Ukraine war.
Russia invaded Ukraine on February 24 and was hit with Western sanctions as a result.
Oil and gas leading imports
The data also shows the high price increases: In the first nine months of 2022, imports from Russia to Bavaria increased in value by more than half (up 54.9 percent) compared to the previous year due to the sharp rise in prices for raw materials and energy products. to.
At the same time, the delivered quantity fell by more than a third (minus 38.4 percent).
In the case of Brandenburg, the volume of Russian imports fell by 1.8 percent - the value increased by almost 46 percent due to high prices.
In other federal states, too, there were strong differences between the development in terms of value and quantity due to inflation.
Bavaria and Brandenburg primarily sourced crude oil and natural gas from Russia.
In terms of value, these two raw materials accounted for 92.2 percent of Bavaria's total imports (EUR 6.1 billion).
In Brandenburg, the proportion was even 98.6 percent (4.2 billion euros).
Nationwide, natural gas and oil only accounted for 55 percent (16.6 billion euros) of imports from Russia.
Metals were the most important imported goods for North Rhine-Westphalia with 29.5 percent (1.0 billion euros).
Coal came in second with 28.5 percent (EUR 1.0 billion), followed by oil and natural gas in third place with 15.3 percent (EUR 0.5 billion).
In NRW, the amount of imported goods fell by 40 percent year-on-year - the value only rose by five percent.
North Rhine-Westphalia exports the most to Russia
According to statistics, medicines and machines in particular were exported to Russia.
From January to September, the quantities also fell sharply here, as did the value.
In the nine months, it totaled 11.6 billion euros.
When it comes to exports to Russia, goods produced in North Rhine-Westphalia had the highest share in a comparison of the federal states from January to September: 15 percent (1.7 billion euros) of all German exports went to Russia from there.
Baden-Württemberg followed in second and third place with 13.6 percent (1.6 billion euros) and Bavaria with 10.7 percent (1.2 billion euros).
Goods of foreign origin were also exported from Germany to Russia on a large scale.
These are goods that are not produced in Germany, but are only traded in between and cannot be assigned to any federal state.
The share of such goods with non-German origin in total exports to Russia was 30.6 percent.
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