The UK is a welcoming Island market, with hundreds of years of dealing with world trade and indeed it set up most of the worldwide norms and infrastructure to facilitate it.

The United Kingdom Has an highly developed social market economy, from 2017 to 2025 it has been the sixth largest national economy in the world measured by nominal gross domestic product (GDP) which is 3.38% of world GDP, and tenth largest by purchasing power parity (PPP).

The UK has one of the worlds most globalised economies, and comprises England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland, In 2022 the UK was the fifth largest exporter of goods and services in the world and the fourth largest importer. It also had the fourth largest outward foreign investment and the fifteenth largest inward foreign investment. In 2022 UK's trade with the European Union was 42% of total exports and 48% of total imports.