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Exchange rates have little impact on UK export levels, claim researchers

04-13-2007 · EurekAlert!

Changes in exchange rates have little impact on UK manufacturing exports and are likely to have only a modest effect in reducing the country’s record trade deficit, researchers at GEP — the Globalisation and Economic Policy Centre at The University of Nottingham — claimed today.

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