largest trading partners in south east asia now let's take a closer look at the matter with kevin haydn he's with the association of german chambres of industry and commerce and joins us in the studio now kevin this is the 1st race of the u.s. planes with member why singapore singapore is a very small country if you look at the size of the population but in trade for whom it's pretty significant for german companies it's roughly $15000000000.00 euros that we trade with singapore every year it's you can compare this to canada i was just slightly bigger country and so it is pretty significant there also around 1600 german companies in singapore and they use it as a hub for other countries in asia so it's pretty important but i'm a company which which sectors are we talking about that will profit from this deal the most well this already a lot of trade between germany and singapore as specially cars machinery but also renewable energies or sector all medical devices for example they will all benefit from the open market and from for trade. in times of a us president that is really have. a free