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Refusing isn't the right word. From my experience there are fewer categories of products where a German consumers gets value add from purchasing non-German products (B2C or B2B) as compared to, say, Greece. First how much could Germany import from Greece at the outset. And, not specific to Greece, there is a general aversion to buying the lowest cost product just to save money; and there is a general preference for predictability, longevity and quality. Others may have the opposite experience, but for me German demand for domestically made products is a sensible and a cultural "refusal" and not an institutional one.