EXPORT DRIVE

摘要

Government policy generally takes time to see noticeable effects and so can be said of this government's attempts to kick-start the UK economy by growing exports to a target of £1 trillion by 2020.Traditionally Europe has been the UK's largest export market - in 2002, nearly two thirds (61 %) of all UK exports went to some of our nearest neighbours. Exports as a whole dipped in 2008 as the financial crisis deepened, with output in many sectors grinding to a halt under challenging market conditions and a lack of capital flows.Since then, a distinctive change has taken place. Exports have recovered from their crisis lows, yet in doing so, the proportion of exports to the EU is noticeably reduced. Indeed, in 2013, the UK finds itself in unfamiliar territory where just over half of all exports now go to non-EU countries.