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Area: 243.000 sq.Km
Population: 62,5m
UK - Spain
Area: 500,000 sq. km
Population: 47m
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Confederación de Empresarios de Galicia 09/04/2013
UK - SpainBig Relationship
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Confederación de Empresarios de Galicia 09/04/2013
UK - SpainBig Relationship
UK is 5th largest Spain export market
Spain is 8th largest UK export market
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Confederación de Empresarios de Galicia 09/04/2013
Sector exports UK to Spain £bn
Sector exports Spain to UK
Medicinal & pharmaceutical products
1,356,670,811 Road vehicles (including air cushion vehicles)
2,639,064,032
Road vehicles (including air cushion vehicles)
995,113,379 Vegetables & fruit 1,411,250,233
Inorganic chemicals 417,247,226 Iron & steel 495,466,976
Petroleum, petroleum products & related materials
352,250,234 Power generating machinery & equipment
494,451,710
Miscellaneous manufactured articles
345,394,988 Medicinal & pharmaceutical products 430,139,245
Beverages 329,123,276 Machinery, app & appliances 382,500,095
Metalliferous ores & metal scrap
319,778,390 Beverages 294,822,275
Organic chemicals 304,647,364 Non-metallic mineral manufactures 279,499,252
Machinery, app & appliances 301,048,901 Articles of apparel & clothing accessories
268,221,310
Power generating machinery & equipment
297,181,172 Non-ferrous metals 246,291,843
£bn
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Why the UK?
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• Springboard for global growth
• Major European location for ‘ease of doing business’
• Corporation tax rate of 20 per cent by 2015
• R&D Tax Credits – 225% for SMEs, 130% for large companies
• The UK’s labour market is one of the world’s most flexible
• Europe’s strongest R&D environment
• A GREAT quality of life
• A return on investment for the long term
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Recovery developments
• National Infrastructure Plan
• Industrial Strategy
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Government Agenda
The Trade and Investment White Paper marks a redoubling of the UK Government’s efforts to enable developing countries to follow their own paths to growth through trade and investment
Prime Minister David Cameron
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Top European destination for inward investment
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UK Trade & Investment (UKTI)
“In 2011–12, there were 1,406 foreign direct investment project successes in the UK, of which UKTI was involved in landing 1,172”
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Confederación de Empresarios de Galicia 09/04/2013
Contact
Martin Phelan
Director UK Trade & Investment, Iberia
martin.phelan@fco.gov.uk
Tel: +34 917 14 64 12
www.ukti.gov.uk
www.gov.uk/government/world/spain
www.twitter.com/UKTISpain
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Confederación de Empresarios de Galicia 09/04/2013