UK Customs Data

Basic facts about the UK
the rapid development of Sino-British trade relations, China has become Britain's second largest source of imports and seventh largest export market. The top three categories of goods imported by Britain from China are mechanical and electrical products, textiles, raw materials and furniture and toys. Among them, China has a large advantage in light industrial products and is the largest source of imports of British textiles and raw materials, footwear, umbrellas, leather products and luggage. In addition, metal products, plastics and other light industrial products are also important commodities imported by the UK from China.

The British customs data of the foreign trade state is the first-hand original customs data obtained directly from the local customs. It records every transaction imported by the importers in the UK from around the world and provides online inquiry.

UK data description
The foreign trade state network provides the British customs import data since 2001, and has updated to provide 30.87 million original customs data transaction records, including 250,635 buyers. British customs data is updated monthly. (The latest time, see data update table)



1. Each transaction bill of lading has an 8-digit HS code used by the British local import declaration.
2. Detailed product descriptions are provided in the data, and the language used is English.
3. Information on UK buyers of imported goods, including company name and address, provided in the bill of lading data; supplier information was not provided.
4. Due to the restrictions of British customs policy, the fields of data disclosure are less and the amount of information available for us to check is less.