seem to have rebounded so trade to the u.k. was a lot higher trade to the u.s. was a lot higher there was a continued decline in exports to china but i think seeing increases in exports to china or to the u.s. and the u.k. was definitely a bright spot also there was an increase in exports to be to the end that autos that sector as well which has been hit very hard over the past several months i think now there's the potential that germany could actually avoid a technical recession because of how strong this data was there had been a pretty much consensus here that germany was going to fall into recession after seeing growth the kind in the 2nd quarter looks like they may actually be able to avoid that now. if it is the weak going to good use but still weak is this going to be just a blip it certainly could be this david doesn't really fit with the past few months of trade data that we've gotten out of germany so it certainly