Thursday, June 30, 2016

Brexit Tracking

Looking at the UK, it shipped US$460.1 billion worth of products around the globe in 2015. This amounts to about 2.5% of total international exports, which is estimated at $18.686 trillion. Now, breaking that down, about 53.6% of UK exports by value are delivered to European trade partners. On the contrary, 22.5% are sold to Asian importers, 16.1% to North America, and just 2.6% to Africa.

United Kingdom’s top 15 trade partners by dollar value during 2015 are below with the percentage of UK exports:

United States: US$66.5 billion (14.5% of total UK exports)
Germany: $46.4 billion (10.1%)
Switzerland: $32.2 billion (7%)
China: $27.4 billion (5.9%)
France: $27 billion (5.9%)
Netherlands: $26.6 billion (5.8%)
Ireland: $25.5 billion (5.5%)
Belgium: $17.8 billion (3.9%)
Spain: $13.1 billion (2.8%)
Italy: $12.9 billion (2.8%)
United Arab Emirates: $10.3 billion (2.2%)
Hong Kong: $9.6 billion (2.1%)
South Korea: $7 billion (1.5%)
Saudi Arabia: $6.7 billion (1.5%)
Sweden: $6.6 billion (1.4%)




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