Export champion FRG also lives up to its good reputation when it comes to tea: tea quality "Made in Germany".

For the first time, more than half of the tea imported in 2005 was processed in this country. These are then re-exported as high-quality specialties.

In doing so, Americans, Russians, and the tea-drinking nation of England in particular rely on tea quality "Made in Germany". Green tea – the trend drink of the wellness wave – proved to be the driver of exports, with an increase of almost 25 percent. The German tea industry is also generally satisfied with its domestic business: "In a very difficult market environment, we were able to keep sales volume at a high level with an increase of 1 percent," says Jochen Spethmann, Chairman of the German Tea Association. This means that the tea industry has developed disproportionately to the market, which, according to GfK, showed a 5 percent decline in sales in the hot beverages sector in 2005.

Source: http://www.teeverband.de/frames.html