Is it true that the UK and Germany were each other's largest trade partners prior to World War I?

I'm doing an essay on current US-China relations, and I just want to add a quick little detail about economic interdependence. I read somewhere in an article, probably off of The National Interest, that prior to WWI (or WWII, I don't remember) the UK's and Germany's largest trade partners were each other. Can anyone verify this? As much info as possible is greatly appreciated, thanks much.

yankee_sailor2013-10-25T11:31:09Z

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before WW1 yes indeed.........(before WW2 Germany's largest partner was France, go figure, 1).........much of the money was royalty payments to Krupp of Essen for their armour plate process ( go figure, 2 ) but also foodstuffs from all over the world carried to Germany in English ships

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Yun2013-10-25T18:30:44Z

No, that was actually France, which makes the point even stronger.
Japan's #1 trading partner prior to WWII was the USA.

Both of those examples have been used for the sake of demonstrating how economic considerations cannot fully counter the reasons for war.

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