Rising COVID-19 cases will not affect Taiwan’s trade ties with Germany, because domestic goods were in high demand in the European country last quarter and will remain popular, the German Trade Office Taipei said on Thursday. Bilateral trade relations would not be affected by a spike in infections in Taiwan, but will flourish for the rest of this year based on trade data, the office said. Trade volume between Taiwan and Germany increased 4.5 percent year-on-year in the first three months of this year, as bilateral trade ties deepened, despite a slowdown in economic activity amid the pandemic. Bilateral trade value rose to