UK trade in goods with its largest partners
Provisional
UK exports and imports of goods with its 20 largest partner countries in the latest month, by exports and imports together, £ million, from HM Revenue and Customs' overseas trade statistics.
Largest export market: United States
£4.4bn
Aug 2026
Verified against source, 1 November 2026, 12:20 UTC- Exports
- Imports
Source: HM Revenue and Customs. Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
Data table
20 rows
| Category | Exports | Imports |
|---|---|---|
| Switzerland | £390m | £10.7bn |
| United States | £4.4bn | £5.4bn |
| China | £3.4bn | £6.0bn |
| Germany | £2.4bn | £6.4bn |
| Netherlands | £2.1bn | £4.5bn |
| France | £1.7bn | £2.8bn |
| Belgium | £1.5bn | £2.4bn |
| Ireland | £2.1bn | £1.6bn |
| Canada | £452m | £3.0bn |
| Spain | £776m | £1.7bn |
| Singapore | £616m | £1.8bn |
| Norway | £254m | £2.1bn |
| Italy | £450m | £1.6bn |
| Hong Kong | £1.3bn | £524m |
| Poland | £648m | £1.1bn |
| South Africa | £101m | £1.5bn |
| Turkey | £487m | £1,000m |
| India | £589m | £868m |
| Japan | £511m | £736m |
| Australia | £374m | £750m |
Source and licence
- Publisher
- HM Revenue and Customs
- Check it yourself
- https://www.uktradeinfo.com/trade-data/ots-custom-table/
- Licence
- Open Government Licence v3.0 – Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
- Retrieved
- 1 November 2026, 12:16 UTC
- Raw files fetched
- https://api.uktradeinfo.com/OTS?$apply=aggregate(MonthId%20with%20max%20as%20MaxMonth)SHA-256 20dd2cdc9392aecf408615b3d6353d7b723a027b0fe53667d3da14e4f6cc4f34 · 119 bytes
- https://api.uktradeinfo.com/OTS?$apply=filter(MonthId%20eq%20202608%20and%20CountryId%20ne%20977)/groupby((FlowTypeId,CountryId),aggregate(Value%20with%20sum%20as%20V))SHA-256 13a7fb44030985031925f1a3a80f2a4fabe5f604e89d05b32c616f0986240592 · 27,491 bytes
- https://api.uktradeinfo.com/CountrySHA-256 ae5b2cb60e300077c9ef339deb0a877846bd78e37ec09b91bcc615164867151f · 75,214 bytes
Verification
Verified against source, 1 November 2026, 12:20 UTC Run at 1 November 2026, 12:20 UTC; 40 of 40 figures matched the live source.
| Result | Check | Detail |
|---|---|---|
| Pass | Provenance recorded | HM Revenue and Customs; Open Government Licence v3.0; retrieved 2026-11-01T12:16:39Z; 3 raw file(s) |
| Pass | Raw files match recorded SHA-256 | 3 of 3 files intact |
| Pass | Re-parsing raw files reproduces figures | 40 of 40 figures and the headline reproduced |
| Pass | Figures are finite numbers | 40 figures, 0 invalid |
| Pass | Live source matches every figure | 40 of 40 figures match exactly after downloading 3 source file(s) again (3 byte-identical); the headline matches |
| Pass | The API's month is current | latest month 2026-08 ended 62 days before retrieval (limit 80); the API's newest month then was 202608 |
| Pass | Flow codes mean what the hub reads | https://api.uktradeinfo.com/FlowType gives 1 EU Imports; 2 EU Exports; 3 Non-EU Imports; 4 Non-EU Exports: exports are flows 2 and 4, imports 1 and 3 |
| Pass | Table 1's non-EU totals agree | 2 of 2 figures match to the pound: non-EU exports £17,211,112,752 and imports £41,207,678,265 for August 2026 in https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/6ac534a735adbc27761df941/Table_1_-_Total_UK_Trade_in_Goods_with_EU_and_non-EU_August_2026_NMG_impact.ods, against the stored rows' non-EU flows summed without confidential trade |
| Pass | Non-EU partners in Tables 2 and 4 agree | 15 of 15 non-EU partner figures for August 2026, July 2026, August 2025 match the API's rows to the pound, in https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/6ac534a7e635a394acb9235f/Table_2_-_UK_exports_of_goods_to_the_top_5_partner_countries_value_comparison_with_July_2026_and_August_2025.ods and https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/6ac534a735adbc27761df942/Table_4_-_UK_imports_of_goods_from_the_top_5_partner_countries_value_comparison_with_July_2026_and_August_2025.ods |
| Not run | EU partners reported, not compared | Tables 2 and 4 also list EU partners – Germany (Table 2), Ireland (Table 2), Netherlands (Table 2), Germany (Table 4), Netherlands (Table 4) – whose 15 figures are £0.2m to £44.4m above the API's: HMRC adds its estimates of Northern Ireland's trade with the EU into each EU country's figures, while the API keeps them apart, so this second route compares non-EU partners only |
| Pass | HMRC marks the month provisional | Table 1's notes in https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/6ac534a735adbc27761df941/Table_1_-_Total_UK_Trade_in_Goods_with_EU_and_non-EU_August_2026_NMG_impact.ods say '2026 data is provisional', which covers August 2026 |
| Pass | Source page answers | https://www.uktradeinfo.com/trade-data/ots-custom-table/ – HTTP 200 |
Notes
- Trade in goods only, not services, in current prices and not seasonally adjusted. The 20 partners are those with the most trade in the month, exports and imports together, and both series show the same 20.
- Figures include non-monetary gold, whose movements through London can swing trade with Switzerland by billions of pounds from one month to the next.
- These are HMRC's overseas trade statistics, compiled to different rules from the ONS's balance of payments figures, such as the UK trade balance on this site, so the two do not match.
- HMRC's own tables add its estimates of Northern Ireland's trade with the EU into each EU country's figures; its API, the source here, keeps them apart. So EU partners here are a little below HMRC's tables, while non-EU partners match them exactly.
- HMRC's pseudo-countries are left out: confidential trade, its estimates, low-value trade, ships' and aircraft stores and provisions, and the 'Other' regions. HMRC's tables mark the latest year's data as provisional, and each monthly release can revise that year's earlier months.