I am in London, researching one of Business without Borders’ country guides, and a number of developments have come to my attention here. One stems from a conversation with a Canadian diplomat, who notes that Canada has robust exports to the United Kingdom in that most precious of commodities, gold. Statistics show that Canada’s exports in the statistical category of “natural or cultured pearls, precious or semi-precious stones and metals” soared to $5.6 billion in the first six months of 2011, up 31.6% over 2010. Gold makes up the vast majority of that figure and indeed accounts for the lion’s share of Canada’s exports to the UK.

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