UK Imports
The value of goods and services the UK buys from the rest of the world each month.
£83.25bn
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Jan 1997 to Aug 2026
Source: ONS series IKBI (MRET) · goods and services, current prices, seasonally adjusted.
UK Imports in context
Worked out from the published series shown above.
In the UK, the imports rose by £5.2bn over the year to Aug 2026, from £78.06bn in Aug 2025.
Over the past five years it has ranged from £56.16bn in Aug 2021 to £88.05bn in Mar 2026.
How this series is defined
Everything you need to check the figure against the source.
- Source
- ONS
- Series
- IKBI
- Frequency
- Monthly
- Unit
- £m
- Seasonal adjustment
- Seasonally adjusted
- Latest observation
- Aug 2026
- Revision status
- Latest published estimate, subject to revision
Data refreshed 2026-11-06. Figures are the latest published observations and can be revised.
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