EU trade flows · extra-EU
All trade flowsGrated & powdered cheese
CN codes: 040620
Latest customs month
May 2026
Imports · last 12 months
7.0kt
+9.1% vs the year before
Imports · avg unit value
5,861€/t
Exports · last 12 months
60kt
+4.2% vs the year before
Exports · avg unit value
8,220€/t
What the EU imports
Monthly imports
- May 2026
- 12-month average0.59 kt
- Imports0.39 kt
Where it comes from · last 12 months
- 🇬🇧United Kingdom3.9 kt56%
- 🇨🇭Switzerland3.0 kt43%
- QWNot specified42 t1%
- 🇺🇸United States13 t0%
- 🇯🇵Japan11 t0%
- 🇨🇳China6 t0%
- 🇳🇴Norway1 t0%
- QVNot specified0 t0%
- 🇱🇮Liechtenstein0 t0%
- 🇧🇷Brazil0 t0%
- —All other countries0 t0%
Partner concentration (HHI): 4,980 · 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 average5.03 kt
- Exports4.68 kt
Where it goes · last 12 months
- 🇬🇧United Kingdom20 kt32%
- 🇨🇭Switzerland6.8 kt11%
- 🇨🇳China5.0 kt8%
- 🇯🇵Japan4.0 kt7%
- 🇱🇧Lebanon2.9 kt5%
- 🇿🇦South Africa2.1 kt3%
- 🇮🇶Iraq1.9 kt3%
- 🇳🇴Norway1.4 kt2%
- 🇰🇷South Korea1.1 kt2%
- 🇸🇦Saudi Arabia1.0 kt2%
- —All other countries14 kt23%
Partner concentration (HHI): 1,821 · 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€ 5,831
- Export unit value€ 8,111
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
- 20251 kt
Exports by month
- December
- 20234 kt
- 20244 kt
- 20255 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
180kt
+16.9% vs the year before
Imports · last 12 months
1.8kt
+29.0% vs the year before
United States
Jun 2026
Exports, 12-month average — EU vs US
- Jun 2026
- United States15 kt
Where it comes from
- Italy1.7 kt · 90%
- Canada0.1 kt · 6%
- Israel0.1 kt · 3%
- Albania0.0 kt · 0%
- Mexico0.0 kt · 0%
Where it goes
- Mexico98 kt · 55%
- Guatemala9.1 kt · 5%
- Japan8.8 kt · 5%
- Australia7.3 kt · 4%
- Saudi Arabia6.2 kt · 3%
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 · Apr 2026
- As the EU files it
- 0.0 kt
- As the US files it
- 0.1 kt
- Gap
- +0.1 kt +90%
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.