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Trading Intensity with the UK

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Looking at the type of enterprises who had the UK as their only export market, the largest sector was Wholesale/Retail at 46% of enterprises, followed by Other Manufacturing and Construction sector which made up 23% of enterprises.

Analysed by company size, two thirds of companies who had the UK as their only export market had fewer than 10 employees. SMEs in total accounted for 98% of UK only exporting firms.

Percentage share
Sector% Share of enterprises
Agri/food7.12507778469197
Pharma-
ceuticals
1.05787181082763
Other
manu-
facturing
and
cons-
truction
23.5220908525202
Wholesale/retail45.7996266334785
Services/other22.2775357809583
Unknown0.217797137523335
Table 7.1 UK only exports by sector 2017
SectorNumber of enterprises% of total
Agri/food2297
Pharmaceuticals341
Other manufacturing and construction75624
Wholesale/retail1,47246
Services/other71622
Unknown70
Total3,214100
X-axis label% Share of enterprises
Unknown0.217797137523335
Micro67.8282514001245
Small25.980087118855
Medium5.07156191661481
Large0.902302426882389
Table 7.2 UK only exports by size of enterprise 2017
Enterprise sizeNumber of enterprises% of total
Micro2,18068
Small83526
Medium1635
Large291
Unknown70
Total3,214100
Micro (0-9 employees), Small (10-49 employees), Medium (50-249 employees), Large (over 250 employees).

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