EU trade flows · extra-EU

All trade flows

Dairy spreads

CN codes: 040520

Latest customs month

May 2026

  • Imports · last 12 months

    0.4kt

    −42.5% vs the year before

  • Imports · avg unit value

    6,490€/t

  • Exports · last 12 months

    6.4kt

    +2.8% vs the year before

  • Exports · avg unit value

    7,831€/t

What the EU imports

Monthly imports

0.05 kt0.29 kt0.54 ktJan 2015Jan 2017Jan 2019Jan 2021Jan 2023Jan 2025
May 2026
12-month average0.03 kt
Imports0.04 kt
Imports12-month average

Where it comes from · last 12 months

  1. 🇬🇧United Kingdom248 t71%
  2. 🇧🇦Bosnia & Herzegovina43 t12%
  3. 🇷🇸Serbia32 t9%
  4. 🇺🇦Ukraine26 t7%
  5. QWNot specified2 t1%
  6. 🇹🇷Türkiye1 t0%
  7. 🇦🇪United Arab Emirates0 t0%
  8. 🇳🇴Norway0 t0%
  9. 🇺🇸United States0 t0%
  10. 🇨🇭Switzerland0 t0%
  11. All other countries0 t0%

Partner concentration (HHI): 5,259 · 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

0.26 kt0.54 kt0.81 ktJan 2015Jan 2017Jan 2019Jan 2021Jan 2023Jan 2025
May 2026
12-month average0.53 kt
Exports0.53 kt
Exports12-month average

Where it goes · last 12 months

  1. 🇺🇸United States2.2 kt35%
  2. 🇬🇧United Kingdom1.2 kt18%
  3. 🇯🇵Japan635 t10%
  4. 🇰🇷South Korea355 t6%
  5. 🇷🇸Serbia218 t3%
  6. 🇽🇰Kosovo179 t3%
  7. 🇧🇦Bosnia & Herzegovina113 t2%
  8. 🇲🇬Madagascar99 t2%
  9. 🇧🇸Bahamas91 t1%
  10. 🇭🇰Hong Kong SAR China87 t1%
  11. All other countries1.1 kt17%

Partner concentration (HHI): 1,977 · 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.

€ 2,130€ 5,161€ 8,192Jan 2015Jan 2017Jan 2019Jan 2021Jan 2023Jan 2025
May 2026
Export unit value€ 7,506
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
20230 kt
20240 kt
20250 kt
2023202420252026kt

Exports by month

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December
20230 kt
20240 kt
20251 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

    0.5kt

    −10.6% vs the year before

  • Imports · last 12 months

    2.7kt

    −4.5% vs the year before

  • United States

    Jun 2026

Exports, 12-month average — EU vs US

0.06 kt0.32 kt0.57 ktJan 2015Jan 2017Jan 2019Jan 2021Jan 2023Jan 2025
Jun 2026
United States0.05 kt
EU-27United States

Where it comes from

  1. Ireland2.3 kt · 86%
  2. Brazil0.1 kt · 5%
  3. Argentina0.1 kt · 5%
  4. Netherlands0.1 kt · 3%
  5. India0.0 kt · 1%

Where it goes

  1. Peru0.2 kt · 30%
  2. Honduras0.1 kt · 23%
  3. Korea, South0.1 kt · 12%
  4. Guatemala0.0 kt · 4%
  5. Bermuda0.0 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.

Europe → United States · May 2026

As the EU files it
2.2 kt
As the US files it
2.2 kt
Gap
0.0 kt 0%

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 14 Aug 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 Jul 2026, last ingested 14 Aug 2026. · Sources & licences