the largest trading partners in southeast asia now let's take a closer look at the matter with kevin heitman eye he's a foreign trade expert at the association of german chambers of industry and commerce good morning to you kevin good to have you here in the studio 1st of all. point out to us it is the this trade deal is the 1st that the e.u.'s claims with a member state of ozzy on how do they link together the e.u. as the biggest single market and singapore as a relatively small city state the morning well singapore as well it of the small iraq that when you look at the population of the size of the area of the land but if you look at trade in the if you look at the economy it's pretty significant the trade problem with germany is roughly around $15000000000.00 euros you can compare that for example to canada which is slightly larger than singapore but the trade value is similar so this is an if it can for the area for the german economy ok so what significance does this deal have for german businesses well german businesses get all the benefits that a trade agreement usually gets it gets l