Agriculture is extremely productive, and Germany can cover 90% of its nutritional needs with domestic production. The country’s principal agricultural products are potatoes, wheat, barley, sugar beets, fruit, and cabbages. Despite Germany’s high level of industrialization, almost one-third of its territory is covered by forest. The forestry industry provides for about two-thirds of domestic consumption of wood and wood products.

Germany is recognized the world over for its outstanding automotive industry and excellence in engineering. From Asia to the Americas, German cars embody highly cherished values of innovation, reliability, safety, and design. Germany is by some distance Europe’s leading production and sales market. The country’s world-class R&D infrastructure, complete industry value chain integration, and highly qualified workforce create an internationally peerless automotive environment. It enables companies to develop cutting-edge technologies, which perfectly address tomorrow’s mobility needs, including autonomous driving technology.

The country is one of the world’s leading manufacturers of steel, with production concentrated in the Ruhr region. The metal and electrical industry is Germany’s key industrial sector. The sector generates most of its turnover by manufacturing capital goods. Two-thirds of products and services are exported. Since the late 19th century, as the home of internationally known firms such as Siemens and AEG, Germany has been a world leader in the manufacture of electrical equipment.

Whether in the reinforcement of traditional industry products or the sustainable development of emerging technologies, Germany’s chemical industry plays a keystone role. Supported by world-renowned R&D institutes, knowledge-laden graduates, and dependable supply chains, Germany offers investors fertile ground for their product development and market integration within Europe’s largest economy. And all this at the center of a large market: the European Union.