China is the world's most popular country for EU goods

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China is the world's most popular country for EU goods

The European Commission regularly places China - the world's biggest country with a population of more than 1.4 trillion - top of its 'best sellers' table every month. A report published earlier this month by Brussels stated that the European Union, US and China together accounted for nearly half 45 percent of both imports and exports of goods in 2020. But bombshell analysis from Facts 4 U.org looking at the latest trade figures from last Friday shows Brexit Britain is a significantly larger market for EU goods than China.

The report reveals that China far out-paces the UK as an export market to the EU - despite having just 4.8 percent of the population of the much larger Asian country. In the 12 months to the end of August 2021, the EU's goods sales to China totalled a massive €287.5 billion 252.2 billion Incredibly in contrast, this was nearly a third 29.2 percent more than EU goods sales to the UK, which stood at €222.4 billion 195.1 billion Facts 4 U.org explained why, despite these staggering trade differences, China remains at the top of the EU's best sellers' rankings.

The firm said in its analysis: The reason the EU puts China at the top of its bestsellers table is not because China buys more from the EU than the UK does. It is because China sells far more to the EU than the UK does. The total trade between two countries or in this case one country China - and one wannabe country the EU is the sum of imports and exports. Using this measure, China does indeed top the UK. However, this measure disguises a very inconvenient truth for the EU. READ MORE: Brexit LIVE: EU has 'no appetite' for UK return to EU.

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