Monthly data on the UK's trade in goods and services, including trade inside and outside the EU. This replaces our previous dataset, UK trade: goods and services (up until July 2018).

The United Kingdom recorded a trade deficit of 5260 GBP Million in July of 2025. This dataset provides - United Kingdom Balance of Trade - actual values, historical data, forecast, chart, statistics, economic calendar and news.

In the second quarter of 2025, the value of exports from the United Kingdom amounted to approximately 227 billion British pounds, while imports to the country amounted to around 241 billion pounds, resulting in a trade deficit of around 14.4 billion pounds in this quarter. During this time period, the value of UK exports was highest in the fourth quarter of 2022, with the value of imports peaking in the third quarter of 2022. The UK's main trade partners Despite the UK leaving the EU in 2020 following the Brexit referendum of 2016, Europe remains the main destination for UK exports, with almost half of UK exports heading there in 2023. During the same year, just over 60 percent of imports came from European countries, compared with around 17.9 percent from countries in Asia, and 11.8 percent from the Americas. In terms of individual countries, the United States was the UK's leading export partner for both goods and services from the UK, while Germany was the main source of UK goods imports, and the U.S. for service imports. It is as yet unclear how the return of Donald Trump to the White House will impact UK/US trade relations, should the President follow through with threats made on the campaign trail to increase trade tariffs. Brexit rethink under Starmer? Although generally more pro-European than the previous government, the new Labour government, led by Keir Starmer, does not plan to rejoin the European Union, or the Single Market. Public opinion, while gradually turning against Brexit recently, has not coalesced around a particular trading relationship. In late 2023, a survey indicated that while 31 percent of British adults wanted to rejoin the EU, a further 30 percent wanted to simply improve relations with the EU, instead of rejoining. Just 11 percent of respondents wanted to join the single market but not the EU, while 10 percent were happy with the relationship as it was. At the start of 2025, after several months in office, the new government has not signalled any major change in direction regarding on this, but has broadly signalled it wants a better relationship with the EU.

Monthly value of UK exports and imports of goods and services by current price, chained volume measures and implied deflators.

In the first quarter of 2025, the United Kingdom had a trade deficit of 10.6 billion British pounds, due to a 59 billion pound deficit in goods trade offset by a 48 billion pound trade surplus in services.

Breakdown of UK trade in services by business characteristics on a balance of payments basis using a new experimental dataset.

Since 2005, the United Kingdom is a net exporter of services to the European Union (EU) member states. Most recent trade data indicates that in 2022 the UK had a surplus of around 29 million British pounds when it came to trade in services with the EU as a whole.

Latest monthly statistics on trade in goods classified according to Standard International Trade Classification (SITC) as well as monthly estimates for total trade in services. Source agency: Office for National Statistics Designation: National Statistics Language: English Alternative title: Trade

Service sector data highlighting the UK's major trading partners, which services are common to a number of industries and the geographical breakdown on services and industries. Source agency: Office for National Statistics Designation: Official Statistics not designated as National Statistics Language: English Alternative title: TIS

This dataset shows the quotas available in the UK Tariff along with their current or final balances, updated daily. It lists each quota period for each six-digit quota order number with the commodities and geographical areas the quota applies to and information about the initial and current balance. It does not show any applicable tariff rates or conditions on use - for these, please see the Tariffs to trade with the UK dataset. The dataset includes historical quotas that are no longer available, their final balance and date of exhaustion, if any. It also includes some non-exhaustive information on some future quotas that is subject to change. Only quotas that have been created since the UK Tariff became independent on 1st January 2021 are shown. This dataset combines UK Tariff information from the Department for International Trade (updated regularly) and current quota balances from Her Majesty's Revenue and Customs (updated daily). Both data sources and this dataset are licensed under the Open Government License v3. You can use this data to analyse quota applicability and utilisation in bulk, and to understand trends in quota application and usage over time. You cannot use this data to make operational decisions about which quotas are available because current balance data may lag the allocations made by HMRC by several days. If you require further information on live quota balances, contact the HMRC Tariff Quota Management Team by email on tariff.management@hmrc.gov.uk.

The value of goods exported from the United Kingdom was over 92.7 billion British pounds in the first quarter of 2025, compared with 151.9 billion pounds worth of goods imported, resulting in a goods trade deficit of around 59 billion pounds.

Quarterly estimates of total trade, trade in goods, and trade in services by country, non-seasonally adjusted.

Estimated value of exports, imports and balance of trade from 2016 to 2023 for total trade, trade in goods and trade in services for International Territorial Levels (ITLs) 1, 2 and 3, and city regions. Includes EU and non-EU split along with data for top 20 partner countries. These are official statistics in development.

In 2023, the United Kingdom had a total trade deficit of about 15 billion British pounds. A further breakdown of the UK's trade balance as displayed here indicates that the UK had a trade surplus with its trade in goods and services with countries outside the EU, whereas from its goods and services trade with the EU27 countries, the UK had a deficit of over 94.62 billion.

Services industry and trade in services in the United Kingdom (UK) are an important contributor to gross domestic product (GDP). According to current economic data, trade in services made up of just over ** percent of the GDP in the UK. Despite recent declines, this rate displayed a consistent growth over the years, going from just over ** percent in 1995 to approximately **** percent in 2019.