• exports are all products and services delivered to other countries
• imports are all products and services bought from other countries
• Germany is known for having a long-term positive saldo with respect to trade, i.e. typically exports more goods and services than importing from the world.
• The following pie chart shows the relative importance of each trading partner

The data set shows numbers for trade with each country in 2015 was downloaded from The German Federal Beaury of Statistics (=Statistisches Bundesamt): Link

A quick inspection of the loaded data set shows the following structure:

head(df)

##                            country export in EUR import in EUR
## 172 Vereinigte Staaten von Amerika     113990351      59641037
## 7                       Frankreich     102949505      66923898
## 27          Vereinigtes Königreich      89292571      38322475
## 16                     Niederlande      79475064      87941680
## 181            Volksrepublik China      71385193      91696826
## 17                      Österreich      58115156      37287133