UK regional trade in goods statistics: Quarter 4 2022
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This release contains international trade in goods data at summary product and country level, by UK regions and devolved administrations.
Latest UK regional trade in goods statistics
HM Revenue & Customs (HMRC) has released the UK's regional trade in goods statistics (RTS) for Quarter 4 2022.
From January 2022, HMRC implemented a change in data collection methods affecting trade in goods data on imports from the EU into Great Britain. This creates a break in the time series, users should take care when making comparisons with quarters and years prior to 2022.
A new method for EU business counts was introduced in the 2022 Quarter 1 (Q1) publication, resulted in a break in series from previous RTS EU business counts. EU and total business counts from the 2021 data period onwards will therefore not be comparable with RTS business counts published prior to 2021.
More information on data source changes and their impacts on RTS can be found in the main commentary document.
Please also note that on 14 November 2022, HMRC announced corrections to the Overseas Trade in Goods Statistics (OTS). These corrections were applied to OTS on 12 December 2022 and have been applied to RTS figures in the 2022 Q4 release.
You will be able to download a full commentary and supporting data sets. For more details, go to UK regional trade in goods statistics: fourth quarter 2022.
The RTS Methodology document is available on GOV.UK.