Post-Brexit trade deals already starting to bear fruit

‘Chicken feed’ was how some Remainers described the UK’s post-Brexit trade deals with countries around the rest of the world.

They may wish to reconsider those remarks in the light of the latest figures which have now been published in relation to the Anglo-Australian trade deal.

The increase in UK goods exports to Australia is nothing less than astonishing as the following tables indicate.

We don’t yet have figures for service exports yet, a traditional strength for the UK economy.  We expect those to have grown substantially too.

Who said the future of the UK lay in Europe?  A glance at the chart below demonstrates the extraordinary potential for global Britain in a post-Brexit world.  We say more of this please!

A link to the full article can be found beneath the chart.

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UK-Australia Trade Deal

 

The increase in UK goods exports to Australia, 2022-2023

  1. Furniture : 200.0%
  2. Cars : 119.0%
  3. Ships : 107.7%
  4. Road vehicles other than cars : 84.4%
  5. Railway equipment : 75.0%
  6. Aircraft : 69.0%
  7. Live animals : 59.3%
  8. Telecoms & sound equipment : 40.0%
  9. Mechanical power generators : 31.3%
  10. Animal feeding stuffs : 28.6%
  11. Works of art : 24.1%
  12. Electric motors : 23.3%
  13. Miscellaneous electrical goods : 21.2%
  14. Vegetables & fruit : 20.0%
  15. General industrial machinery : 19.6%
  16. Mechanical power generators : 19.6%
  17. Specialised machinery : 18.2%
  18. Scientific instruments : 15.8%
  19. Dairy products & eggs : 13.0%
  20. Sugar : 12.5%

[Source : Latest trade figures from the Office for National Statistics, Feb 2024.]

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