After a sharp increase in armaments licenses in 2019, the trend from last year is now continuing. The number of export permits has decreased.
The downward trend in the federal government’s export licenses for armaments continues this year.
From January to June, the export of arms and other military equipment was approved for 2.296 billion euros – 17 percent less than in the same period last year. The Federal Ministry of Economics announced on Thursday.
The share of controversial exports to countries outside the EU and NATO fell particularly sharply: For these so-called third countries, export licenses were issued for 499 million euros – less than a third of the 1.74 billion in the first half of 2020. The exports to these so-called third countries are explosive because of the human rights situation in some of these countries and the involvement in conflicts.
Since individual transactions can be in the high three-digit million range or, in extreme cases, even in the billions, the statistics are subject to strong fluctuations. Export permits fell continuously between 2016 and 2018, but then jumped to a record value of 8.015 billion euros in 2019. In 2020, they then fell again by more than a quarter to 5.82 billion euros.
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