According to the Office for National Statistics, China has become the UK's largest source of imports for the first time. There is also the British media "Times" also reported the news, since the epidemic this year, especially in the second quarter of the United Kingdom, the United Kingdom's new crown epidemic during the most serious, the United Kingdom's imports from China for the first time exceeded the imports from other countries. Suffice it to say that in the second quarter of this year, one in every seven pounds of goods imported into the UK was imported from China. The UK imported roughly ￡11 billion worth of goods from Chinese companies, with the fastest-growing category being textiles, which include medical masks used by the NHS, as well as the use of telecommuting by most businesses due to the outbreak, leading to an increase in the number of home computers and other electronic products used for telecommuting.
In the second quarter of 2020, the UK's share of imports from China rose from 8.6% in the first quarter to 13.4% in the second quarter, with the size of imports reaching ￡11 billion, which translates to the equivalent of nearly 97 billion yuan.
Originally, the UK's largest source of imports was Germany, and China was the second-ranked source of imports, with UK imports to Germany averaging ￡65 billion a year, though UK imports to China averaged ￡45 billion a year, when by the second quarter, Germany and also the UK's main other sources of imports saw their share fall, and China's share of imports rise.
Among these imports, the main hot commodities are textile goods, such as medical masks, clothes and so on; and electronic technology equipment, mainly cell phones, tablets and laptops. You can see that these commodities are related to the epidemic, because of the epidemic, the United Kingdom and other sources of imports of production stagnation, but the market demand and large, so the number of purchases from China has increased.