March 13, 2021
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UK exports to EU falls sharply

However, exports of medicines and pharmaceutical products to non-EU countries increased in January, reports Asian Lite News

January was not a good month for trade between European Union (EU) and United Kingdom (UK). The UK’s exports of goods to the EU fell by 40.7 per cent in January, while imports from the bloc dropped by 28.8 per cent, the British Office for National Statistics (ONS) said.

Falling imports of goods, excluding non-monetary gold and other precious metals, were largely seen in machinery and transport equipment, and chemicals from the EU in January, particularly in imports of cars and medicinal and pharmaceutical products, Xinhua news agency quoted the ONS as saying on Friday.

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January marked the first month of trade after the Brexit transition period ended on December 31, 2020.

The ONS said multiple factors may have attributed to the falling trade in goods between the UK and the EU.

In addition to the changes facing Britain after the transition period ended, the country went into another national lockdown at the beginning of January.

Prime minister Boris Johnson meets with Ursula von Der Leyen at the European Commission in Brussels. (Picture by Andrew Parsons No 10 Downing Street)

Stockpiling of goods from the EU increased in November and December 2020 in preparation for the end of the Brexit transition period, just like the UK’s goods imports from the EU also peaked in the weeks approaching previous Brexit deadlines in March and October 2019, the ONS said.

The ONS said data suggested that importing and exporting to the EU began to increase toward the end of January 2021.

The UK government announced on Thursday that it will delay post-Brexit checks on some EU goods coming into the country to help firms recover from the Covid-19 pandemic.

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The need for health certificates on imports such as meat and milk will be pushed back from next month to October.

In contrast to the falling exports to the EU, exports of medicines and pharmaceutical products to non-EU countries increased in January, and a large proportion is represented by increasing exports to China and Japan, according to the ONS.

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