Donald Trump Said the UK is America's Largest Trading Partner. It Ranks 5th.

Faculty Fellow Jeffrey Bergstrand, University of Notre Dame finance professor, is quoted on the article "Donald Trump Said the UK is America's Largest Trading Partner. It Ranks 5th" about Trump's mistaken trading facts. During his visit to the United Kingdom, Donald Trump called the country the largest trading partner of the US. That's not true - it's the fifth largest, according to PolitiFact, a fact-checking journalism organization owned by the nonprofit Poynter Institute for Media Studies.

Bergstrand said that, "The U.K. is not our largest trading partner, whether measured by U.S. bilateral imports from the U.K., exports to the U.K., or the sum of the two. It is a large partner, but not nearly among the largest."