How loud or quiet will New Year’s Eve be in Germany? The Federal Statistical Office has figures on the imports and exports of fireworks.
Even if there is unlikely to be a ban on the sale of firecrackers and rockets on New Year’s Eve, imports of fireworks are currently well below the pre-corona level.
From January to September 2022, around 5700 tons of fireworks were imported to Germany, as the Federal Statistical Office in Wiesbaden announced on Tuesday. That was 81 percent less than in the same period of the pre-Corona year 2019, when it was 29,800 tons. Compared to the previous year, the import of fireworks increased again by 2300 tons. In previous years, the third quarter was the strongest for imports. Almost all rockets and firecrackers came from China.
In contrast to imports, exports of firecrackers and rockets from Germany increased significantly from January to September compared to the same period last year and the pre-Corona year 2019. A total of 2700 tons of fireworks were exported abroad. In the same period last year it was only 1100 tons, from January to September 2019 around 2000 tons. The most important buyers of fireworks from Germany in the first three quarters of 2022 were the Netherlands (49 percent), Italy (23 percent) and Belgium (18 percent).
Source: Stern
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