What does UK Export - this is very informative - hover over each square to find out https://oec.world/en/profile/country/gbr
This graphic comes from the above website (click to expand):
the same data also really nicely displayed on an interactive map here:
https://www.ons.gov.uk/economy/nationalaccounts/balanceofpayments/bulletins/unitedkingdombalanceofpaymentsthepinkbook/2018#the-trade-in-goods-deficit-widened-mainly-due-to-imports-growing-more-than-exports
Data on proportion of exports to EU vs World appears to be about to be updated due to an error in 2014 - updated info will appear here after 30 September 2016 ... strange - who would think that highly educated civil servants could make such simple addition / statistics errors - wonder what schools they went to ! And surely not Oxbridge educated !
WTO - currently we have "Most Favoured Nation Status" with WTO because we are a member of the EU. If we can't negotiate to keep this then we will revert to 10% tariff rates on WTO trading rules : https://www.wto.org/english/thewto_e/whatis_e/tif_e/fact2_e.htm
UK Exports / Free Trade Agreement potential with Gulf Co-operation Council (only about 6% of UK current exports go there) to http://www.cityam.com/250987/britain-has-golden-opportunity-leapfrog-eu-and-secure-free
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