EU trade flows · extra-EU
All trade flowsWhey & whey powder
CN codes: 040410
Latest customs month
May 2026
Imports · last 12 months
84kt
+15.4% vs the year before
Imports · avg unit value
913€/t
Exports · last 12 months
744kt
−1.1% vs the year before
Exports · avg unit value
1,639€/t
What the EU imports
Monthly imports
- May 2026
- 12-month average7.03 kt
- Imports7.57 kt
Where it comes from · last 12 months
- 🇬🇧United Kingdom39 kt46%
- 🇨🇭Switzerland30 kt35%
- 🇺🇦Ukraine6.4 kt8%
- 🇳🇴Norway5.6 kt7%
- 🇺🇸United States3.1 kt4%
- 🇮🇱Israel215 t0%
- 🇹🇷Türkiye160 t0%
- 🇳🇿New Zealand79 t0%
- 🇨🇳China50 t0%
- QVNot specified32 t0%
- —All other countries135 t0%
Partner concentration (HHI): 3,484 · 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
- May 2026
- 12-month average62 kt
- Exports58 kt
Where it goes · last 12 months
- 🇨🇳China206 kt27%
- 🇲🇾Malaysia79 kt10%
- 🇮🇩Indonesia77 kt10%
- 🇬🇧United Kingdom46 kt6%
- 🇹🇭Thailand42 kt6%
- 🇻🇳Vietnam33 kt4%
- 🇵🇭Philippines30 kt4%
- 🇯🇵Japan27 kt4%
- 🇮🇳India17 kt2%
- QYShip & aircraft stores14 kt2%
- —All other countries163 kt22%
Partner concentration (HHI): 1,544 · 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.
- May 2026
- Import unit value€ 1,031
- Export unit value€ 1,915
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
- 20237 kt
- 20246 kt
- 20257 kt
Exports by month
- December
- 202355 kt
- 202459 kt
- 202566 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
562kt
+11.1% vs the year before
Imports · last 12 months
49kt
+3.6% vs the year before
United States
Jun 2026
Exports, 12-month average — EU vs US
- Jun 2026
- United States47 kt
Where it comes from
- Canada42 kt · 86%
- Netherlands2.5 kt · 5%
- Denmark1.9 kt · 4%
- France0.7 kt · 1%
- Argentina0.6 kt · 1%
Where it goes
- China242 kt · 43%
- Canada54 kt · 10%
- Mexico54 kt · 10%
- Vietnam35 kt · 6%
- Indonesia34 kt · 6%
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 · May 2026
- As the EU files it
- 3.1 kt
- As the US files it
- 3.3 kt
- Gap
- +0.1 kt +3%
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.