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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Politics
Daniel Boffey Chief reporter

UK exports in last decade worse than any G7 country except Japan

Freight lorries queueing at the check-in area for the Port of Dover in Kent.
Freight lorries queueing at the check-in area for the Port of Dover in Kent. The analysis will raise pressure over the Brexit trade deal. Photograph: GarethFuller/PA

Britain has endured the worst exports record of any member of the G7 besides Japan over the last decade, according to a new analysis that will raise pressure on the government to reconsider its post-Brexit trade deal with the EU.

As most of the world’s other major seven economies have rebounded from the pandemic, export growth has remained sluggish in the UK at a time when businesses trading with the EU faced extra red tape and costs as a result of the country leaving the bloc.

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