What was the volume of British exports to China in 2017?

The mind-boggling scale of the inaugural China International Import Expo in October, attended by 160,000 buyers from more than 80,000 companies, is evidence of the demand of economic cooperation between China and the UK. Within just six days, the hundreds of British firms at the fair together secured 2 billion pounds, about $2.55 billion, of commercial deals, which is over 10 percent of the $22.31 billion of British exports to China in 2017.

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