The given bar chart compares the foreign trade of Scotland to the remaining parts of the continent and the UK in the year 2014.
From an overall perspective, it is obvious that the figure for most of freight travelling to UK were lower than that of the rest of the world, with a exception belonging to Electrical & Instrument Engineering. Additionally, Business Services & Finance, Hotel & Restaurant Services recorded the highest exporting data of the host country.
Looking at the graph in more details, in terms of commercial exchange to several parts of the world (ROW). Business and other related service fields were the biggest exporting market of Scotland, which earned about 13.8 billion of dollars in the surveyed year. The second position belonged to Chemical & Mineral products at a less impressive income at 9.5 billion of dollars, in comparison with Wholesalr & Retail at 8.2 billion of dollars. Both manufacture sections shared the similar data at 5.8 for the food & drink and 5.9 for others, respectively. As for the remaining sectors, including unspecific services, metals, mechanical & transport equipment, agriculture, forestry, fishing & mining, and electrical & instrument engineering, more modest profits can be saw at under 3 billion of dollars.
Turning to the exports to the rest of the UK (UK), Chemicals & Mineral Products dominated the exporting rate of Scotland to the UK at 5 billion of dollars, which was closely followed by manufacture of food & drink electrical & instrument engineering at 4.4 and 4 billion of dollars, respectively. In addition, 2.1 billion dollars was gained in trading metals, mechanical & transport equipment in the mentioned year, comparing to business services & finance, hotels & restaurant services in a lower point at 1.7 billions. Other manufacturing, Wholesale & Retail, and unspecific services saw equal profits at 1, 1.1, and 0.9 billions, respectively. Finally, agriculture, forestry, fishing & mining took the lowest income at just 0.6 billion dollars.