UK Balance of Trade
Exports minus imports of goods and services each month.
−£920m
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Jan 1997 to Aug 2026
Source: ONS series IKBJ (MRET) · goods and services, current prices, seasonally adjusted.
UK Balance of Trade in context
Worked out from the published series shown above.
In the UK, the balance of trade rose by £1.2bn over the year to Aug 2026, from −£2.11bn in Aug 2025.
Over the past five years it has ranged from −£11.36bn in Jan 2022 to £7.63bn in Oct 2022.
How this series is defined
Everything you need to check the figure against the source.
- Source
- ONS
- Series
- IKBJ
- Frequency
- Monthly
- Unit
- £m
- Seasonal adjustment
- Seasonally adjusted
- Latest observation
- Aug 2026
- Revision status
- Latest published estimate, subject to revision
Below zero means the UK buys more from abroad than it sells.
Data refreshed 2026-11-06. Figures are the latest published observations and can be revised.
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