As Britain prepares to leave the EU, our new trade report finds that services make up the majority of all city exports and examines how a goods-only customs arrangement might affect jobs and prosperity
As Britain prepares to leave the EU, attention will turn to what trade deals it can strike with other countries around the world. These deals will have different implications for different parts of the country. Using new data released by the ONS, this report sets out how much cities export, what they export, and crucially given the current political situation, where they export to.
This report builds on the initial work we did on the industrial and geographical make-up of UK city exports in Cities Outlook 2017
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