Imports · last 12 months
42kt
+102.5% vs the year before
Imports · avg unit value
5,252€/t
Exports · last 12 months
279kt
+17.9% vs the year before
Exports · avg unit value
7,558€/t
What the EU imports
Monthly imports
- May 2026
- 12-month average3.49 kt
- Imports2.47 kt
Where it comes from · last 12 months
- 🇬🇧United Kingdom24 kt57%
- 🇺🇸United States6.9 kt16%
- 🇳🇿New Zealand6.4 kt15%
- 🇺🇦Ukraine2.6 kt6%
- 🇳🇴Norway1.6 kt4%
- 🇨🇭Switzerland303 t1%
- 🇹🇷Türkiye71 t0%
- 🇮🇸Iceland50 t0%
- QVNot specified4 t0%
- 🇦🇺Australia2 t0%
- —All other countries138 t0%
Partner concentration (HHI): 3,815 · 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 average23 kt
- Exports31 kt
Where it goes · last 12 months
- 🇺🇸United States78 kt28%
- 🇬🇧United Kingdom49 kt18%
- 🇨🇳China17 kt6%
- 🇰🇷South Korea12 kt4%
- 🇸🇦Saudi Arabia12 kt4%
- 🇲🇦Morocco8.2 kt3%
- 🇦🇪United Arab Emirates6.9 kt2%
- 🇮🇱Israel5.0 kt2%
- 🇹🇼Taiwan4.9 kt2%
- 🇯🇵Japan4.1 kt1%
- —All other countries75 kt27%
Partner concentration (HHI): 1,904 · moderate
Countries outside a product's top twelve are counted under "all other countries" — the totals and shares stay honest, the list stays readable.
From — to, one corridor at a time
Pick a sender and a receiver and read that corridor: the tankers from one member state to another, month by month. Both customs perspectives are drawn — the sender's export record and the receiver's import record rarely agree to the tonne, and the gap itself is information. The border corridors are here too: choose the European Union as sender for the exports to third countries, or a third country as sender for what comes in.
Reported by the sender (export) · last 12 months
81 kt
Reported by the receiver (import) · last 12 months
103 kt
- May 2026
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€ 5,656
- Export unit value€ 6,472
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
- 20231 kt
- 20241 kt
- 20253 kt
Exports by month
- December
- 202317 kt
- 202417 kt
- 202521 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
112kt
+132.5% vs the year before
Imports · last 12 months
65kt
−18.3% vs the year before
United States
Jun 2026
Exports, 12-month average — EU vs US
- Jun 2026
- United States9.35 kt
Where it comes from
- Ireland34 kt · 53%
- New Zealand21 kt · 33%
- France4.1 kt · 6%
- Argentina1.4 kt · 2%
- Canada1.1 kt · 2%
Where it goes
- Canada32 kt · 29%
- Saudi Arabia12 kt · 11%
- Korea, South10 kt · 9%
- Australia9.2 kt · 8%
- Netherlands6.5 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.
Europe → United States · May 2026
- As the EU files it
- 78 kt
- As the US files it
- 34 kt
- Gap
- −43 kt −56%
United States → Europe · May 2026
- As the EU files it
- 6.9 kt
- As the US files it
- 10 kt
- Gap
- +3.5 kt +34%
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.