Thuringia's foreign trade has recovered from the pandemic slump of 2020. It even set new records: almost 17 billion euros in exports and just under 13.7 billion euros in imports. These results were announced by the Minister of Economics, Wolfgang Tiefensee, to mark the 14th Thuringia Foreign Trade Day, which took place at the end of June in Oberhof in southern Thuringia, informed around 140 entrepreneurs about new ways of doing business internationally and encouraged them to compare notes. In the future, Tiefensee added, Thuringia's foreign trade policy will focus not only on new sales markets, but also on importing primary products and materials for the Thuringian economy. Due to the current supply chain problems, Thuringian companies were pushing to expand and stabilize international supplier relationships. With this in mind, he said, the state will be supporting trips to establish supplier cooperations in the future; the first one will go to Italy in November. (hw)
