b'1. Falsehood: The UK needs to be in a political union in order to access EU markets. The BBC and the EUs fellow-travelers in theThe total trade between the EU and these 20 media have been peddling this falsehood fornon-EU countries was almost 2.6 trillion in years.2013. This was more than the entire GDPs of France and the UK, in that same year, which The figures reveal something entirelywere 2 trillion and 1.9 trillion, respectively. different. Table 27 illustrates further the magnitude of the trade between the EU and non-EUcountries. Table 27 Rest of the world: trade with the EU NumberCountryTrade volume in millions 1USA 632,589 2China 573,087 3Switzerland 260,842 4Russia 231,166 5Turkey 154,267 6Japan 129,568 7Norway 128,162 8South Korea 99,536 9India 85,937 10Canada 69,213 11Brazil 63,394 12Mexico 61,824 13Saudi Arabia 54,964 14Singapore 53,250 15U.A. Emirates 52,674 16Taiwan 50,072 17Hong Kong 47,928 18Australia 47,701 19Vietnam 47,640 20South Africa 47,171Source: Eurostat57'