Claim: Over 200,000 UK businesses trade with the EU, helping them create jobs here in the UK.
Fact-check: Stronger In "facts" leaflet: business - Full Fact
Verdict: hmrc figures from 2012 found almost 200,000 vat-registered traders in the uk which traded goods with other eu member states. they said that the figure could be "significantly higher" if it included companies that traded in services.
Organisation: Full Fact
Author: Unknown
Date published: 2016-05-23T00:00:00