Germany foreign trade in goods (exports, imports, trade balance), monthly release schedule and API

Q: When is the next Germany foreign trade in goods (exports, imports, trade balance), monthly release?

2026-12-09 07:00 UTC, 08:00 local (UTC+01:00), according to the Destatis release calendar as of 2026-11-13.

Q: How fast is Germany foreign trade in goods (exports, imports, trade balance), monthly available by API?

Over the last 30 days the median time from Destatis publishing to the data being on the Econfeed feed was 2.0 min across 1 release(s).

Destatis. Source: Statistisches Bundesamt (Destatis), GENESIS-Online 51000-0020, 51000-0002; Datenlizenz Deutschland - Namensnennung - Version 2.0 (dl-de/by-2-0). Licence: dl-de-by-2.0.

Next releases

Release	UTC	Agency local time
Foreign trade	2026-12-09 07:00 UTC	08:00 local (UTC+01:00)
Foreign trade	2027-01-08 07:00 UTC	08:00 local (UTC+01:00)
Foreign trade	2027-02-09 07:00 UTC	08:00 local (UTC+01:00)

From the agency's own calendar, as of 2026-11-13. Reschedules and cancellations are in the API.

How fast it reaches the API

Release	Measured	Median	Fastest	Slowest	Missed
trade	1	2.0 min	2.0 min	2.0 min	0

Time from the agency publishing to the data being on our feed, for releases caught live in the last 30 days. Every release counts, including slow ones and misses.

Get it by API

Series ids: DE.TRADE_BALANCE.TOTAL.SA, DE.EXPORTS.TOTAL.SA.

# pip install econfeed-client
from econfeed_client import Client

ef = Client()  # ECONFEED_API_KEY from the environment
for e in ef.calendar(days=90, source="de_destatis_trade"):
    print(e.scheduled_at, e.release_name, e.reference_period)

# add as_of= for what was known then
page = ef.observations("DE.TRADE_BALANCE.TOTAL.SA", start="2024-01")

# pushed seconds after release
for ev in ef.stream(sources=["de_destatis_trade"]):
    print(ev.type, ev.data.release_id)

REST: GET /v1/calendar?source=de_destatis_trade, GET /v1/series/DE.TRADE_BALANCE.TOTAL.SA/observations. Webhooks: filter on source de_destatis_trade.