Part of 2. Questions to the Minister for International Relations and Welsh Language – in the Senedd at 2:58 pm on 5 February 2020.
Minister, our biggest trading partners are Germany and France, in that order, and, to be fair to Neil Hamilton, the USA is third. We had a robust export performance last year, which I congratulate the Welsh Government on in the work it did there; we saw our exports increase by very nearly 5 per cent. But they fell to Germany, and I think we need to be very careful about the messages we are sending. We need to preserve these European markets into which we often export some of our leading goods, with all that implies for well-paid jobs, research and development and the like.