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German trade at record level
GERMAN exports and imports both leapt to record monthly levels in March, official data showed yesterday, bolstering hopes that Europe’s largest economy has escaped recession and highlighting the country’s resilience to the Eurozone’s deepening debt crisis.
Meanwhile French trade data showed its exports to Germany and other northern European countries increased in the month even as its sales to the crisis-stricken peripheral Eurozone nations tumbled.