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Oil import rush widens UK trade gap, exports grow

Oil import rush widens UK trade gap, exports grow

LONDON: The Britain’s trade in goods deficit has widened sharply in December on a rush in oil imports, making the trade gap for last year as a whole the biggest since 2010.

There were signs of a shift in the trade balance in the final quarter, when the goods deficit narrowed by the largest amount in three years as export volumes rose at their fastest since the second quarter of 2013.

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