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Britain is the world's fifth largest trading nation.

Machinery and transport, manufactured goods and chemicals, and steel are Britain's largest export earners. Since the 1970s, oil has contributed significantly to Britain's overseas trade, both in exports and a reduced need to import oil.

The UK's pharmaceuticals industry is the world's third largest exporter of medicines.

Britain is also a major supplier of plastics, cars, motorbikes, films, music aerospace products, alcohol, and finally, electrical and electronic equipment such as chips in Ipods, military equipment, food products, and clothes. Britain is responsible for 10 per cent of the world's export of services, including banking, insurance, stockbroking, consultancy and computer programming.

Over 60 per cent of imports into Britain are finished manufactured goods, while just under three per cent are basic materials. Food, beverages and tobacco are major non-manufactured imports, whilst machinery and transport equipment accounted for just under half of all imports in 2000. Other major imports include chemicals, fuels, clothing and footwear.

In 2009 Britain became the world's first nation to recycle any electrical product, no matter what it is. If it has a plug, it can be recycled. Every plug, screw, bolt, electrical board, and all components inside are stripped out and recycled in new products, then the leftover casing is shredded and recycled to make new electrical products. This is now a large export. You can sift through all of the shredded plastic and not find one piece of metal. Everything is recycled.

Britain has been one of the biggest Entertainment exporters in history. Shows such as Britain's Got Talent, Pop Idol-X Factor have spawned copies all over the world. BBCAmerica is broadcast on many cable and satellite plans all over America. Dr. Who, Masterpiece Theater and other shows all have loyal following outside of the UK. There are many popular authors, such as JK Rowling of Harry Potter fame, that are British. The world's longest continuously running film franchise, James Bond, is British.

Cars like Aston Martin,Bently,Rolls Royce,Jaguar,Lotus,TVR,Land Rover,Vaxhaull,Morgan,Noble are all British.

Britain has also been probably the worlds most sucesfull music exporters in history.

Many British TV shows are exported and other countries make copies,i.e The Office,Who wants to be a millionare,weakest link,peep show,shamless, the list just goes on forever....

Many big westend stage shows are also good exports.

British Military as in British S.A.S special forces,they are copied by 27 diffrent countries with the British S.A.S help train the poorest of those countries,also sells them military equipment and then trains them to use and maintain it. this is a very big export.

British video game franchises like the Grand Theft Auto series and many others are also a very big export, in 2009 the British video game industry brought 3.9 Billion to the British economy.

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