Huge trade surplus before? When? http://www.indexmundi.com/g/g.aspx?c=gm&v=85 http://www.indexmundi.com/g/g.aspx?c=gm&v=85 and http://www.tradingeconomics.com/g

Huge trade surplus before? When? http://www.indexmundi.com/g/g.aspx?c=gm&v=85 http://www.indexmundi.com/g/g.aspx?c=gm&v=85 and http://www.tradingeconomics.com/germany/balance-of-trade http://www.tradingeconomics.com/germany/balance-of-trade It correlates too well with the introduction of the Euro to be just random. The issue is exactly that the Euro constantly devalues the German output - thus not slowing its increase in a natural way.