Graphic toont bilaterale handel VS-VK in 2018en vergelijking van data met handel VK-EU.
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VS en VK werken aan handelsdeal

July 29, 2019 - De Amerikaanse president Donald Trump zegt dat er gesprekken komen
over een “zeer uitgebreide” handelsovereenkomst met het VK, die kan
leiden tot “drie- tot vier-, vijfmaal” zo veel handel.

U.S. trade in goods and services with the United Kingdom totalled $262.3 billion in 2018, according to the Office of the United States Trade Representative. The U.S. goods trade surplus with the UK amounted to $5.4 billion.

By comparison, bilateral trade with the European Union -- the UK’s largest trading partner -- reached $721.6bn over the same period, handing the UK a trade surplus of some $72bn.

Trump’s three-fold rise in U.S.-UK business would amount to bilateral trade of $787bn -- $60bn more than current EU commerce. British Prime Minister Boris Johnson would have a powerful negotiating card in his Brexit dealings with the European Commission.

Sources
PUBLISHED: 29/07/2019; STORY: Graphic News; PICTURES: Associated Press
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