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The following is a list of the exports of the United Kingdom. The UK exports to 160 nations. The UK is the fifth largest exporter. Data is for 2019, in millions of USD (United States dollars), as reported by International Trade Centre. Currently the top fifty exports are listed. #
The economic geography of the United Kingdom reflects its high position in the current economic league tables, as well as reflecting its long history as a trading nation and as an imperial power. This in turn was built on exploitation of natural resources such as coal and iron ore. Much has changed since Bevan's speech (below) in 1945, with the ...
The economy of the United Kingdom is a highly developed social market economy. [ 26][ 27][ 28] It is the sixth-largest national economy in the world measured by nominal gross domestic product (GDP), ninth-largest by purchasing power parity (PPP), and twenty-first by nominal GDP per capita, constituting 3.1% of nominal world GDP. [ 29]
The sluggish world market, which was at its weakest in the 1880s, was keenly felt in the export-reliant economy of the UK. British quinquennial export averages did not return to their pre-1873 levels (£235 million between 1870 and 1874) until 1895–99, slumping to £192 million in 1879.
Economic geography takes a variety of approaches to many different topics, including the location of industries, economies of agglomeration (also known as "linkages"), transportation, international trade, development, real estate, gentrification, ethnic economies, gendered economies, core-periphery theory, the economics of urban form, the ...
Depiction of the triangular trade of slaves, sugar, and rum with New England instead of Europe as the third corner. Triangular trade or triangle trade is a historical term indicating trade among three ports or regions. Triangular trade usually evolves when a region has export commodities that are not required in the region from which its major ...
Mercantilism. Seaport at sunset, a painting by Claude Lorrain, completed in 1639 at the height of mercantilism. Mercantilism is a nationalist economic policy that is designed to maximize the exports and minimize the imports for an economy. In other words, it seeks to maximize the accumulation of resources within the country and use those ...
Export-oriented industrialization ( EOI ), sometimes called export substitution industrialization ( ESI ), export-led industrialization ( ELI ), or export-led growth, is a trade and economic policy aiming to speed up the industrialization process of a country by exporting goods for which the nation has a comparative advantage.