What goods did Germany trade during World War II, and with whom?
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Germany lacked raw resources, mostly oil, rubber, manganese, nickel, iron, chrome &c, as well as food.
This is what they tried to get from wherever they could.
I believe the most important Germany's trade partner in the first third of the war (1939-1941) was the USSR. Everyone knows about the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact and its secret protocols, but the trade agreements (1939 and 1940) were no less important for British blockade failure.
USSR supplied petroleum, manganese, copper, nickel, chrome, platinum, lumber and grain &c (see numbers and references in the wikipedia links above).
Other important trade partners were Sweden (iron), Rumania (oil) &c.
They also "imported" industrial products from occupied France (trucks) and Czechoslovakia (tanks) - see also my answer to Did France & Italy continue to develop and manufacture sophisticated military hardware once under German control?
A good source is "Inside the 3rd Reich" by Speer.
You might find http://ww2-weapons.com/military-expenditures-strategic-raw-materials-oil-production/ useful too.
See also Was one of the main reasons Hitler attacked the Soviet Union due to oil?.
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Sverige, Danmark, Norge, Schweiz, Österrike and Italien was dependent on German and Polish coal. So was Nederländerna, Belgien and Luxemburg.
How dependent Frankrike was on German coal i'm unsure about.
Remove Belgien from my list, how large part of the amount of coal which they used and which was Belgian i'm unsure about but they had until the 50s sizable reserves of coal themself.
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Germany largely lacked industrial metals such as iron, tungsten, and chrome. They traded for iron with Sweden, tungsten with Spain, and chrome with Turkey.
All of these were neutral countries, and their importance in supplying key raw materials was a major reason why Germany allowed them to stay neutral. If Germany had occupied them, and then lost them to a counterinvasion by e.g. the Soviet Union or the western allies, it would have lost the war faster than it actually did.
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