[Mears]

Do the residents of West Berlin forget the Berlin Airlift so that they would not all starve?

Boycotting is a great idea,but I need some brand names other than the obvious ones,like automobiles,wines,and pharmaceuticals.

[Clovis_Skeptic]

From the Göteborg Statement: Summit of the European Union and the United States of America. June 14, 2001


Some facts about the ties that link the peoples of Germany and the Europe with those of the United States:

Travel & Communication

500,000 airline passengers cross the Atlantic every day.
People in Europe and North America exchange 1 million phone calls a day.
Email messages between the two contents number 1.4 billion a day.
US travelers spent approximately $1.7 billion in Germany in 2000 (out of a total $18.7 billion spent by foreign travelers in Germany)
US travelers rank second only to visitors from the Netherlands in terms of overnight stays in Germany.
In eastern Germany, more travelers come from the United States than any other country.
Jobs & Investment

German companies are responsible for roughly 700,000 jobs in the US, and US companies have created roughly the same number in Germany.
German investments in the US total about $35 billion.
About 20 percent of German foreign direct investment goes to the US.
About 10 percent of US investments in Germany are in the new federal states, making the US the largest investor in eastern Germany.
46 % of US direct investment abroad was in the countries of the EU as of 2000.
EU countries accounted for more than 60 % of foreign direct investment in the US as of 1999.
Germany-US Trade

The US remains the second largest market, behind France, for German exports. And the US is the third largest importer, behind France and the Netherlands, of goods into Germany.

3.75 % of US exports went to Germany in 2000 4.8 % of US imports came from Germany.
10.3 % of German exports went to the US in 2000 8.5 % of German imports came from the US