Consumer
The US represents an estimated 42 percent of global consumer spending. There are some 313 million US citizens (63 million in UK). US citizens have an average gross domestic product per capita of $47,200 ($34,800).
Companies
The US has an estimated 27 million companies (4.7 million) and approximately 32 percent of global investment in information technology (three percent).
Community
US federal expenditures for 2010 were $3.456 trillion. To put this in perspective, the entire gross domestic product of the UK in 2010 was estimated at $2.173 trillion. There are 50 state, and one district, government budgets - in addition to more than 36,000 local government budgets.
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David Cameron
Prime Minister David Cameron famously pointed out that the UK exports more to Ireland than to Brazil, Russia, India and China (the “BRIC” nations) combined. UK exports to the US in 2009 were £34 million, almost seven times greater than those to China.
| Nick Baird
Nick Baird, chief executive of UK trade & Investment wrote, “...the USA was Britain’s top export market in 2010 with over £38 million of goods sold.”
| Sir Nigel Sheinwald
The UK and US continue to be each other's single largest foreign investors. According to Sir Nigel Sheinwald, HM Ambassador to the US, "The UK has $432 billion invested in the US - that is nearly 19 percent of total investment in the US and nearly 140 times what China has invested in the US."
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The US is not only the world's biggest single country market, it is the gateway to:
and, as a visit to almost any major, international trade show will illustrate, it is where the Rest of the World goes to buy.
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"We really appreciate this 'added-value' service side of things."
“We thank you for all your fantastic help and support over the last year, and we look forward to working with you into 2012.”
Andrew Roughley of Laptop Power.
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