What does the UK export to China?

Other British goods exports to China included petroleum and petroleum products, valued at £1.6 billion (12% of goods exports), medicinal and pharmaceutical products, valued at £0.9 billion (6% of goods exports) and power generating machinery, valued at £0.7 billion (5% of goods exports).
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What was the main export from Britain to China?

opium trade, in Chinese history, the traffic that developed in the 18th and 19th centuries in which Western countries, mostly Great Britain, exported opium grown in India and sold it to China.
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What do we export to China?

Aircraft, soybeans, motor vehicles and microchips are top U.S. exports to China. Since 2001, the share of these exports going to China has increased sharply. Soybeans and motor vehicles are targets of recent Chinese tariffs. Production of these two exports is geographically concentrated.
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How much does the UK export to China?

Of this £93.0 billion: Total UK exports to China amounted to £27.0 billion in the four quarters to the end of Q4 2021 (an increase of 3.0% or £785 million compared to the four quarters to the end of Q4 2020);
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What does the UK rely on China for?

Active pharmaceutical ingredients needed to make painkillers, antibiotics and anti-viral drugs are among the 71 critical goods for which the UK relies heavily on Beijing for supplies, according to the Henry Jackson Society.
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What is England's biggest export?

Here we take a look at the five largest export commodities of the UK, based on HMRC's figures for the 12 months of 2017:
  • Crude oil - £20.0bn. ...
  • Pharmaceutical products - £26.3bn. ...
  • Electrical machinery - £27.7bn. ...
  • Cars - £32.7bn. ...
  • Mechanical machinery - £48.5bn.
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What does China import the most?

China's Top 10 Imports
  • Electrical machinery, equipment: US$604.5 billion (24.8% of total imports)
  • Mineral fuels including oil: $357.7 billion (14.7%)
  • Ores, slag, ash: $254.6 billion (10.4%)
  • Machinery including computers: $210.9 billion (8.6%)
  • Optical, technical, medical apparatus: $99.7 billion (4.1%)
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What is our biggest export to China?

The Top 10 US Exports to China
  • Soybeans: $15 billion.
  • Civilian aircraft: $8.4 billion.
  • Cotton: $3.4 billion.
  • Copper materials: $3 billion.
  • Passenger vehicles (small engines): $3 billion.
  • Aluminum materials: $2.4 billion.
  • Passenger vehicles (large engines): $2.2 billion.
  • Electronic integrated circuits: $1.7 billion.
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What are China's main imports?

Imports The top imports of China are Crude Petroleum ($150B), Integrated Circuits ($144B), Iron Ore ($99B), Cars ($42B), and Soybeans ($37.4B), importing mostly from Japan ($133B), South Korea ($131B), United States ($122B), Germany ($106B), and Chinese Taipei ($104B).
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What does the UK export?

Principal British exports include machinery, automobiles and other transport equipment, electrical and electronic equipment (including computers), chemicals, and oil. Services, particularly financial services, are another major export and contribute positively to Britain's trade balance.
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How strong are Britain and China's economic ties?

Over the past year, the UK's total trade in goods and services with the Chinese mainland reached almost GBP 79 billion (RMB 713 billion) in 2020, with an additional GBP 21.9 billion (RMB 197.6 billion) generated in Hong Kong.
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Who are UK's biggest trading partners?

Top 25
  • United States: US$59.9 billion (13% of total UK exports)
  • Switzerland: $39.5 billion (8.6%)
  • Germany: $38.8 billion (8.4%)
  • Netherlands: $34.3 billion (7.5%)
  • France: $25.6 billion (5.6%)
  • Ireland: $22.2 billion (4.8%)
  • China: $20.9 billion (4.5%)
  • Belgium: $19.7 billion (4.3%)
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How much of what we buy is from China?

U.S. goods imports from China totaled $434.7 billion in 2020, down 3.6 percent ($16.0 billion) from 2019, but up 19 percent from 2010. U.S. imports from are up 325 percent from 2001 (pre-WTO accession). U.S. imports from China account for 18.6 percent of overall U.S. imports in 2020.
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Why do we import so much from China?

Low-priced consumer goods produced in China have been dominating American imports over the years. China can manufacture many goods at competitive prices, because of two comparative advantages: lower standards of living, and a partial pegging of the yuan to the dollar.
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What would happen if we stopped trade with China?

Cutting China off from the U.S. would cost America hundreds of billions of dollars, report says. Expanding U.S. tariffs of 25% to all trade with China could cost the U.S. $190 billion a year in GDP, according to a report released Wednesday by the U.S. Chamber of Commerce and Rhodium Group.
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What raw materials does China import?

China's Top Imports
  • Crude petroleum – $150 billion.
  • Iron ore – $99 billion.
  • Petroleum gas – $36.6 billion.
  • Gold – $7.39 billion.
  • Soybeans – $37.4 billion.
  • Refined Copper – $31.7 billion.
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What would happen if China stopped exporting?

Accordingly, ceasing the production of all China-made goods would lead to an overwhelming drop in all sorts of raw material. This will cause a commodities market crash which will in turn crash all financial markets and thus cause a worldwide financial crisis that will be almost impossible to recover from.
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Who is China's biggest customer?

The United States. At $20.49 trillion, the United States boasts the largest economy in the world and is China's largest trading partner.
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Can China feed its own population?

So how can China produce enough safe food for its growing population if they all start eating like Americans? The simple answer is it can't. It takes about 1 acre (half a hectare) to feed the average U.S. consumer. China only has about 0.2 acres of arable land per citizen, including fields degraded by pollution.
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What are China's top 5 exports?

China's Top 10 Exports
  • Vehicles: $108.9 billion (3.6%)
  • Toys, games: $94 billion (3.1%)
  • Optical, technical, medical apparatus: $88.8 billion (2.9%)
  • Articles of iron or steel: $85.4 billion (2.8%)
  • Knit or crochet clothing, accessories: $78.2 billion (2.6%)
  • Organic chemicals: $73 billion (2.4%)
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What is the UK's biggest import?

Imports The top imports of United Kingdom are Gold ($83.7B), Cars ($32.8B), Broadcasting Equipment ($15.8B), Packaged Medicaments ($14.8B), and Crude Petroleum ($14.8B), importing mostly from Germany ($74.4B), China ($73.1B), United States ($48.6B), Netherlands ($40.3B), and France ($30.3B).
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What does UK export to Russia?

The main exports from the UK to Russia in 2021 were machinery and transport equipment (£1.5 billion) and chemicals (£0.7 billion). Cars accounted for £0.4 billion of the machinery and transport equipment exports; 1.6% of the UK's total car exports 2021.
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