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Kirkgate Market (pronounced / ˈkɜːrɡət /) is a market complex on Vicar Lane in the city centre of Leeds, West Yorkshire, England. It is the largest covered market in Europe [2] [3] and a Grade I listed building. [1] There are currently 800 stalls which attract over 100,000 visitors a week.
Trade in GBP £ Millions Rank Country Imports to UK Exports from UK Total trade Trade balance -Total for non-EU: 345,533: 341,932: 642,726: 41,138 - European Union (Total) 341,002
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 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.
The economy of Birmingham is an important manufacturing and engineering centre, employing over 100,000 people in the industry and contributing billions of pounds to the national economy. During 2013, the West Midlands region as a whole created UK exports in goods worth £19.6 billion, around 8.73% of the national total.
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]
Manufacturing, however, remains important for overseas trade and accounted for 44% of goods exports in 2014. [1] In June 2010, manufacturing in the United Kingdom accounted for 8.2% of the workforce and 12% of the country's national output.
The Export Credits Guarantee Department ( ECGD ), branded as UK Export Finance ( UKEF ), is the export credit agency and a ministerial department of the Government of the United Kingdom . In 1920, UKEF had a maximum total exposure of just £26 million. Today, its maximum commitment stands at £50 billion.