EU trade flows · extra-EU
All trade flowsOther cheese (incl. hard)
CN codes: 040690
Latest customs month
July 2026
Imports · last 12 months
137kt
+5.7% vs the year before
Imports · avg unit value
6,640€/t
Exports · last 12 months
756kt
+5.0% vs the year before
Exports · avg unit value
7,148€/t
What the EU imports
Monthly imports
- Jul 2026
- 12-month average11 kt
- Imports10 kt
Where it comes from · last 12 months
- 🇬🇧United Kingdom71 kt52%
- 🇨🇭Switzerland47 kt34%
- 🇳🇿New Zealand6.3 kt5%
- 🇳🇴Norway4.0 kt3%
- 🇺🇸United States2.3 kt2%
- QWNot specified1.7 kt1%
- 🇷🇸Serbia1.5 kt1%
- 🇹🇷Türkiye1.0 kt1%
- 🇧🇦Bosnia & Herzegovina648 t0%
- 🇲🇰North Macedonia383 t0%
- —All other countries235 t0%
Partner concentration (HHI): 3,925 · 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
- Jul 2026
- 12-month average63 kt
- Exports70 kt
Where it goes · last 12 months
- 🇬🇧United Kingdom190 kt25%
- 🇺🇸United States120 kt16%
- 🇯🇵Japan57 kt7%
- 🇨🇭Switzerland31 kt4%
- 🇨🇦Canada22 kt3%
- 🇩🇿Algeria22 kt3%
- 🇺🇦Ukraine22 kt3%
- 🇲🇦Morocco22 kt3%
- 🇦🇺Australia20 kt3%
- 🇸🇦Saudi Arabia17 kt2%
- —All other countries216 kt28%
Partner concentration (HHI): 1,769 · 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.
- Jul 2026
- Import unit value€ 6,024
- Export unit value€ 7,964
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
- December
- 202312 kt
- 202411 kt
- 202512 kt
Exports by month
- December
- 202361 kt
- 202461 kt
- 202573 kt
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
294kt
+24.4% vs the year before
Imports · last 12 months
162kt
−7.2% vs the year before
United States
Jul 2026
Exports, 12-month average — EU vs US
- Jul 2026
- EU-2763 kt
- United States24 kt
Where it comes from
- Italy35 kt · 22%
- France23 kt · 14%
- Spain14 kt · 8%
- Netherlands13 kt · 8%
- Ireland12 kt · 8%
Where it goes
- Mexico112 kt · 38%
- Japan43 kt · 15%
- Australia31 kt · 10%
- Korea, South16 kt · 5%
- Canada15 kt · 5%
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.
Europe → United States · Jul 2026
- As the EU files it
- 120 kt
- As the US files it
- 123 kt
- Gap
- +2.4 kt +2%
United States → Europe · Jul 2026
- As the EU files it
- 2.3 kt
- As the US files it
- 2.3 kt
- Gap
- +0.0 kt +1%
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.