Minister wants more contacts with French crafts

Crafts businesses from Baden-Württemberg and neighboring France are to be better networked, according to Economics Minister Nicole Hoffmeister-Kraut.

The CDU politician traveled to Alsace with representatives from the trade to initiate contacts, as the ministry announced on Wednesday.

Stuttgart - "Many Baden-Württemberg companies and craft businesses operate across borders and have built up a customer base on both sides of the Rhine," explained the minister.

The corona-related border closings last year would have left their mark.

New business relationships should also be established in the course of the trip.

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France is an important trading partner for Baden-Württemberg: In the first six months of the year, the southwest exported goods worth around 8.6 billion euros to France.

This put France in fourth place in the export statistics after the USA, China and Switzerland.

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