UK Trade Data - Imports & Exports by Commodity 2000-2026

HMRC's Overseas Trade Statistics: what the UK imported and exported, by commodity code, country and port, every month from January 2000 to the latest published month (August 2026). 503,906 detail rows in the latest month alone, with £99.21 billion of trade. The lookup tables cover 16,243 commodity entries, 263 countries and 190 ports.

Low cost

From $0.00005 per record, down to $0.00003 at Gold. Pay only for the records you receive - the whole 122-million-row statistics table stays queryable, and you are never billed for the scan behind it.

What you get per row

field	meaning
month	the row's trade month, YYYY-MM (blank on a multi-month grouped row that does not group by month; groupKey then carries the dimension)
flow	EU Imports, EU Exports, Non-EU Imports, Non-EU Exports
commodityCode, commodityDescription	CN8 code and its HS2/HS4/HS6/CN8 description
countryCode, countryName	ISO alpha-2 code and country
portCode, portName	port or airport
valueGbp	trade value in pounds sterling
netMassKg	net mass in kilograms where published
supplementaryUnits	quantity in the commodity's supplementary unit (litres, items, ...) where published
groupKey, groupCount, groupBy	aggregate label, rows behind the group, dimension
totalMatched, totalValueGbp	rows and value matched by your filters
refreshedDate	latest published month

Latest month at a glance

flow	value	detail rows
EU Imports	£26.71 bn	171,449
EU Exports	£14.08 bn	110,104
Non-EU Imports	£41.21 bn	103,682
Non-EU Exports	£17.21 bn	118,671

The default (empty) run returns this table for the latest month.

Search it

• Commodity - commodity="30049000" (CN8), "300490" (HS6), "3004" (HS4) or "30" (HS2 chapter). A 2-digit chapter filter also includes HMRC's chapter-level rows (trade published without CN8 detail).
• Country - country="DE" or country="France".
• Flow - flow="import" (EU + non-EU), "export", or one exact flow.
• Month - month="2026-08" for one month, or monthFrom / monthTo for a range. With both blank you get the latest month; monthTo alone covers the 12 months ending there.
• Port - port="DOV" (port code) or a port ID.

Search results are the first maxResults matching rows in the API's own order - not a random sample. Use mode=aggregate when you need every group, and totalMatched / totalValueGbp for the true size and value of the match.

Example inputs

Wine imports by country, latest month

{ "month": "2026-08", "commodity": "2204", "flow": "import",
  "mode": "aggregate", "groupBy": "country" }

German imports in one HS chapter

{ "commodity": "22", "country": "DE", "flow": "import", "maxResults": 100 }

One CN8 commodity's monthly history (last 12 published months)

{ "commodity": "30049000", "flow": "import", "mode": "aggregate",
  "groupBy": "month" }

Aggregate it

groupBy = flow (default), country, commodity, port or month. Aggregates return one row per group. The whole commodity universe is about 16,000 codes; an aggregate that would exceed 20,000 groups fails loudly instead of silently truncating.

Scope, exclusions and licence

• Values are in GBP as published by HMRC. Net mass is kilograms.
• Ordinary OTS detail only: the actor keeps SuppressionIndex = 0 (excluding HMRC's disclosure-controlled index 2/3 rows) and drops the negative commodity IDs that HMRC uses as special aggregates. 2-digit chapter-level rows (01-99) are real published trade and are included, so a chapter filter returns more than the sum of its CN8 codes. Rows recorded at port "Not Collected" / "Estimates" are kept because they carry real trade; totals can therefore differ slightly from headline statistics.
• Not trader-level data. No business or personal identifier is used.
• Published under the Open Government Licence v3, which permits commercial reuse with attribution.

Data source: HMRC UK Trade Info.