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Originally Posted by epcfast
Father in law is a UK deplorable who has just been frothing at the mouth ranting about how disgraceful it is that we are banning Trump from entering the UK and that we should be welcoming him with open arms as we do most of our trade with you?
Also called London Mayor Sadiq Khan a disgrace presumably because he is brown.
The US is Britain's second largest trading partner, ranking some way behind the EU.
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The EU, taken as a whole is the UK’s largest trading partner. In 2016, UK exports tothe EU were £236 billion (43% of all UK exports). UK imports from the EU were£318 billion (54% of all UK imports).
http://researchbriefings.files.parli...1/CBP-7851.pdf
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It’s correct that the US is the UK’s second largest trading partner after the EU, if you combine together the value of imports and exports.
America is also the UK’s second largest export market. It accounted for 19% of the value of UK exports in 2016/17, second only to the EU as a whole, which bought 44% of UK exports.
It's also the second largest import market in 2016/17. 11% of the value of our imports came from the US, compared to 53% from the rest of the EU.
https://fullfact.org/economy/uk-trade-usa/
Trump hasn't of course been banned from Britain, he just doesn't want to come. He's afraid of protests, not as a security threat but as an affront to his ego, and he's annoyed that most of Parliament, including the Speaker of the Commons, said they'd stay away if he gave an address.
Sir Christopher Meyer, former ambassador to the US, told the BBC today that Trump doesn't want to cut the ribbon on the new US embassy in London because he doesn't like the State Department anyway and he doesn't see what's in it for him, he wouldn't get any kudos, just protests, so he can't be bothered to make the trip. Effectively, he's in a huff and he's sulking in his room.