{"id":3922,"date":"2008-06-18T15:35:03","date_gmt":"2008-06-18T14:35:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/war-terrorism\/uk-is-worlds-biggest-arms-dealer\/3922\/"},"modified":"2008-06-18T15:35:03","modified_gmt":"2008-06-18T14:35:03","slug":"uk-is-worlds-biggest-arms-dealer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/war-terrorism\/uk-is-worlds-biggest-arms-dealer\/","title":{"rendered":"UK is world&#8217;s biggest arms dealer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"first\"><img decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" vspace=\"3\" align=\"left\" src=\"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/06\/ukarms.jpg\" hspace=\"3\" alt=\"ukarms.jpg\" title=\"ukarms.jpg\" \/><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.abc.net.au\/news\/stories\/2008\/06\/18\/2277965.htm?section=world\">ABC<\/a> | Britain was the world&#8217;s biggest arms seller last year, accounting for a third of global arms exports, the Government&#8217;s trade promotion organisation said.<\/p>\n<p>UK Trade and Investment (UKTI) said British arms exporters had added $20.1 billion in new business last year, giving them a larger share of global arms exports than the United States.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;As demonstrated by this outstanding export performance, the UK has a first-class defence industry, with some of the world&#8217;s most technologically sophisticated companies,&#8221; Minister for Trade and Investment Digby Jones said.<\/p>\n<p>UKTI said the British figures were boosted by orders for Eurofighter Typhoon jets from Saudi Arabia, the world&#8217;s biggest arms buyer, which imported $32.8 billion in weapons over the last five years.<\/p>\n<p>The United States still tops the world for the last five years with $66.7 billion in total arms exports.<\/p>\n<p>Britain was second with $56.1 billion and Russia third with $35 billion, it said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ABC | Britain was the world&#8217;s biggest arms seller last year, accounting for a third of global arms exports, the Government&#8217;s trade promotion organisation said. UK Trade and Investment (UKTI) said British arms exporters had added $20.1 billion in new business last year, giving them a larger share of global arms exports than the United [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1615,16],"tags":[55],"class_list":{"0":"post-3922","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-uk-news","7":"category-war-terrorism","8":"tag-uk-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3922","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3922"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3922\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3922"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3922"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3922"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}