EU trade flows · extra-EU
All trade flowsFresh cheese & curd
CN codes: 040610
Latest customs month
May 2026
Imports · last 12 months
52kt
+6.1% vs the year before
Imports · avg unit value
4,016€/t
Exports · last 12 months
488kt
+4.5% vs the year before
Exports · avg unit value
4,370€/t
What the EU imports
Monthly imports
- May 2026
- 12-month average4.32 kt
- Imports3.95 kt
Where it comes from · last 12 months
- 🇬🇧United Kingdom31 kt59%
- 🇨🇭Switzerland13 kt26%
- 🇮🇸Iceland2.8 kt5%
- 🇺🇦Ukraine2.2 kt4%
- 🇳🇴Norway1.2 kt2%
- 🇷🇸Serbia810 t2%
- 🇧🇦Bosnia & Herzegovina411 t1%
- 🇹🇷Türkiye233 t0%
- 🇺🇸United States78 t0%
- 🇨🇦Canada77 t0%
- —All other countries89 t0%
Partner concentration (HHI): 4,204 · 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 average41 kt
- Exports42 kt
Where it goes · last 12 months
- 🇬🇧United Kingdom222 kt46%
- 🇰🇷South Korea36 kt7%
- 🇨🇭Switzerland31 kt6%
- 🇯🇵Japan23 kt5%
- 🇺🇦Ukraine17 kt3%
- 🇸🇦Saudi Arabia16 kt3%
- 🇨🇳China13 kt3%
- 🇩🇴Dominican Republic12 kt2%
- 🇺🇸United States10 kt2%
- 🇳🇴Norway7.5 kt2%
- —All other countries87 kt18%
Partner concentration (HHI): 2,552 · high
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€ 3,947
- Export unit value€ 4,110
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
- 20233 kt
- 20243 kt
- 20255 kt
Exports by month
- December
- 202333 kt
- 202436 kt
- 202541 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
189kt
+40.3% vs the year before
Imports · last 12 months
16kt
−18.5% vs the year before
United States
Jun 2026
Exports, 12-month average — EU vs US
- Jun 2026
- United States16 kt
Where it comes from
- Mexico4.3 kt · 26%
- Italy3.9 kt · 23%
- Netherlands0.9 kt · 5%
- Canada0.7 kt · 4%
- Belgium0.6 kt · 4%
Where it goes
- Korea, South69 kt · 37%
- Mexico23 kt · 12%
- Chile14 kt · 7%
- Australia9.1 kt · 5%
- Guatemala8.3 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
- 10 kt
- As the US files it
- 7.8 kt
- Gap
- −2.3 kt −23%
United States → Europe · May 2026
- As the EU files it
- 0.1 kt
- As the US files it
- 0.3 kt
- Gap
- +0.3 kt +77%
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.