That’s not to say that the UK accounts for the majority of exports that the EU sends out. The United States would be a close second. If the UK wasn’t a member of the EU it would be the group’s largest single goods export market, at least if we assumed that not being a member wouldn’t have an effect on trade. The UK is the EU’s single largest export market in trade in goods While it’s fair to say we’re an important trading partner with the EU, it’s a more complicated matter to assess what kind of trading relationship the UK would have with the EU if it leaves. We’re only analysing the statistics here. Over the last ten years, on average only Ireland, Luxembourg and Malta didn’t. Mr Moynihan was actually a little generous with the number of countries he named as not having a surplus with us. This assumes exports to the UK would be the same if we weren’t an EU member. They make up 16% and 15% of exports to non-EU countries respectively. The UK is the EU’s largest single export market in goods, if you treat the UK as if it were outside the EU. John Moynihan, Vote Leave, 26 January 2016 “Every single country in Europe apart from Ireland, Cyprus, Greece and Malta and Luxembourg have a surplus with us”.
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