Liverpool, city in northwestern England, on the Mersey River, near its mouth on the Irish Sea. Liverpool is the commercial focus of a large metropolitan area. It remains Britain's second most important seaport, after London, for traffic other than petroleum. Imports include grain and other foodstuffs, wood, nonferrous metals, and textile fibers. Liverpool is also a passenger port for travel to Ireland. Manufactures include pharmaceuticals, electric equipment, refined sugar and flour, and rubber products. To augment Liverpool's extensive dock areas, important new facilities were constructed in the 1970s outside the city limits. Motor-vehicle manufacturing and oil refining are also located on the periphery of the metropolitan area.

MECEC has long term cooperative relationship with Chinalink of Liverpool Chamber of Commerce & Industry.