Discussion paper

DP4259 The Geography of UK International Trade

L Alan Winters Henry Overman

23 Feb 2004

This Paper examines how the geography of UK international trade has changed since the UK?s accession to the European Economic Community using a newly constructed dataset that gives a detailed breakdown of the UK?s imports and exports by both port of entry and exit, and commodity. Our results suggest that between 1970 and 1992 overall imports and exports re-orientated in favour of ports located nearer to the continent. The vast majority of individual commodities also saw a similar re-orientation.

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Citation

Winters, L and H Overman (2004), ‘DP4259 The Geography of UK International Trade‘, CEPR Discussion Paper No. 4259. CEPR Press, Paris & London. https://cepr.org/publications/dp4259