EU trade flows · extra-EU

All trade flows

Grated & powdered cheese

CN codes: 040620

Latest customs month

July 2026

  • Imports · last 12 months

    7.1kt

    +12.2% vs the year before

  • Imports · avg unit value

    5,758€/t

  • Exports · last 12 months

    59kt

    −1.8% vs the year before

  • Exports · avg unit value

    8,275€/t

What the EU imports

Monthly imports

0.54 kt0.54 kt1.31 kt1.31 kt2.07 kt2.07 ktJan 2015Jan 2017Jan 2019Jan 2021Jan 2023Jan 2025
Jul 2026
12-month average0.59 kt
Imports0.40 kt
Imports12-month average

Where it comes from · last 12 months

  1. 🇬🇧United Kingdom4.1 kt58%
  2. 🇨🇭Switzerland2.9 kt42%
  3. QWNot specified15 t0%
  4. 🇺🇸United States14 t0%
  5. 🇯🇵Japan11 t0%
  6. 🇨🇳China2 t0%
  7. 🇳🇴Norway1 t0%
  8. QVNot specified0 t0%
  9. 🇱🇮Liechtenstein0 t0%
  10. 🇧🇷Brazil0 t0%
  11. All other countries0 t0%

Partner concentration (HHI): 5,071 · high

Countries outside a product's top twelve are counted under "all other countries" — the totals and shares stay honest, the list stays readable.

What the EU exports

Monthly exports

2.56 kt2.56 kt4.29 kt4.29 kt6.02 kt6.02 ktJan 2015Jan 2017Jan 2019Jan 2021Jan 2023Jan 2025
Jul 2026
12-month average4.93 kt
Exports5.07 kt
Exports12-month average

Where it goes · last 12 months

  1. 🇬🇧United Kingdom20 kt33%
  2. 🇨🇭Switzerland6.6 kt11%
  3. 🇨🇳China4.9 kt8%
  4. 🇯🇵Japan4.0 kt7%
  5. 🇱🇧Lebanon3.2 kt5%
  6. 🇮🇶Iraq1.9 kt3%
  7. 🇳🇴Norway1.5 kt2%
  8. 🇰🇷South Korea1.1 kt2%
  9. 🇸🇦Saudi Arabia987 t2%
  10. 🇭🇰Hong Kong SAR China877 t1%
  11. All other countries15 kt24%

Partner concentration (HHI): 1,934 · moderate

Countries outside a product's top twelve are counted under "all other countries" — the totals and shares stay honest, the list stays readable.

Unit values

Declared value divided by declared weight, in euros per tonne — the closest thing a customs record has to a price. Import and export are not the same market: one is landed cost at the EU border, the other is border value on the way out.

€ 2,533€ 2,533€ 5,418€ 5,418€ 8,303€ 8,303Jan 2015Jan 2017Jan 2019Jan 2021Jan 2023Jan 2025
Jul 2026
Import unit value€ 5,712
Export unit value€ 7,652
Import unit valueExport unit value

The seasonal shape

The same twelve months laid over each other, per direction — this year drawn against the three before it, so a spring running ahead of last spring shows immediately.

Imports by month

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December
20231 kt
20241 kt
20251 kt
2023202420252026kt

Exports by month

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December
20234 kt
20244 kt
20255 kt
2023202420252026kt

Across the Atlantic: the US record

The same product through American customs — the Census Bureau files about a month faster than Comext, in dollars, under its own ten-digit lines. Volumes compare on the HS6 root both nomenclatures share; the codes beneath it do not.

  • Exports · last 12 months

    182kt

    +16.8% vs the year before

  • Imports · last 12 months

    2.3kt

    +73.2% vs the year before

  • United States

    Jul 2026

Exports, 12-month average — EU vs US

3.70 kt3.70 kt8.94 kt8.94 kt14 kt14 ktJan 2015Jan 2017Jan 2019Jan 2021Jan 2023Jan 2025
Jul 2026
EU-274.93 kt
United States15 kt
EU-27United States

Where it comes from

  1. Italy2.1 kt · 92%
  2. Canada0.1 kt · 5%
  3. Israel0.1 kt · 2%
  4. Mexico0.0 kt · 0%
  5. Spain0.0 kt · 0%

Where it goes

  1. Mexico99 kt · 55%
  2. Guatemala9.2 kt · 5%
  3. Japan8.7 kt · 5%
  4. Australia7.3 kt · 4%
  5. Saudi Arabia6.6 kt · 4%

The same shipment, two customs records

Two customs services, one trade, and rarely the same number. Small gaps are timing and freight. Large ones mean something structural: an export is filed the moment the cargo leaves, while an import is only filed once customs clears it. Where the gap is wide, our reading is that goods are waiting in port for clearance, which can take a long time — but that is an assumption, not something the customs record proves. Re-exports, transshipment and differing tariff-line coverage sit in between as well. Neither book is wrong; knowing which one a counterparty is quoting is the point.

United States → Europe · Jul 2026

As the EU files it
0.0 kt
As the US files it
0.2 kt
Gap
+0.2 kt +93%

US quantities are aggregated from ten-digit HTS/Schedule B lines that differ from the EU's CN lines beneath the shared six-digit root; values stay in dollars on purpose. Lines filed in litres are converted at 1.03 kg/l.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau, USA Trade Online — public domain, credited as a courtesy. Retrieved 15 Sept 2026.

Extra-EU trade of the EU-27 aggregate. Flows between member states are a separate record and are never mixed in.

Customs data is living data: recent months are provisional and can be revised for a year or more. Every revision the daily ingest sees is recorded, never silently overwritten.

Source: Eurostat (Comext, DS-045409), processing Get Fair Dairy — data vintage Sept 2026, last ingested 15 Sept 2026. · Sources & licences