Germany to reject EU-Canada trade deal

[grassfarmer]

Littledoggie, I think it has more to do with Germany wishing to retain their sovereignty and not get into some of the restrictions placed on them by trade agreements like this.
As an agricultural export market Russia doesn't make up a big part of the German total. Around 1.6 billion Euro out of a total of 62 billion Euro - around 2.5%. Germany is very much a Euro zone trader both for imports and exports.

[Horse]

With our standard of living and wages the cop is too high to ever think of being a exporter to most countrys except for the realy high or the realy low cuts of meat.