BERLIN (Reuters) – German exports to Britain this year could grow for the first time since 2015 if the upward trend seen from January to August continues through 2022, statistics office data showed. For the first eight months of the year, German companies sold goods worth 48 billion euros ($47.37 billion) to Britain, an increase of about 11.4% compared with the same period in 2021, showed data made available to Reuters. If this trend continues, 2022 would mark the first increase, after six consecutive years of shrinking exports, since the British referendum on whether to leave the European Uni…