Displaying one of her company's hot plates proudly labelled "Made in Germany", Sigrid Klenk concedes that maintaining production at home could become harder due in part to US tariffs.

Continuing to make goods in Germany "is becoming less and less simple," Klenk, boss of the small firm Rommelsbacher, said at the IFA consumer tech show in Berlin.

Particularly problematic for Rommelsbacher, whose products range from kettles to coffee makers, is a 50-percent US levy on steel and aluminium.

"Now we have to specify the amount of steel contained in our products, especially our hot plates," she told AFP. "This has kept us very busy in recent days."

Europe's already struggling top economy is under huge pressure from President Donald Trump's tariff blitz -- official data released Monday showed G

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