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Globalisation - China overtakes the USA as EU's biggest trading partner

Graham Watson

17th February 2021

The centre of economic gravity is changing: the EU's largest trading partner is now China, and no longer the USA.

Europe's trade volume with China reached 586 billion euros ($711 billion) in 2020, compared to 555 billion euros ($673 billion) for the USA.

China bucked a wider trend, as trade with most of Europe's major partners dipped due to the Covid-19 pandemic through most of 2020.

Graham Watson

Graham Watson has taught Economics for over twenty years. He contributes to Tutor2U, reads voraciously and is interested in all aspects of Teaching and Learning.

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