EU trade flows · extra-EU
All trade flowsOther cheese (incl. hard)
CN codes: 040690
Latest customs month
May 2026
Imports · last 12 months
136kt
+6.8% vs the year before
Imports · avg unit value
6,764€/t
Exports · last 12 months
743kt
+3.0% vs the year before
Exports · avg unit value
7,189€/t
What the EU imports
Monthly imports
- May 2026
- 12-month average11 kt
- Imports12 kt
Where it comes from · last 12 months
- 🇬🇧United Kingdom72 kt53%
- 🇨🇭Switzerland48 kt35%
- 🇳🇿New Zealand5.5 kt4%
- 🇳🇴Norway4.2 kt3%
- 🇺🇸United States2.4 kt2%
- 🇷🇸Serbia1.5 kt1%
- 🇹🇷Türkiye1.1 kt1%
- 🇧🇦Bosnia & Herzegovina628 t0%
- 🇺🇦Ukraine433 t0%
- 🇲🇰North Macedonia338 t0%
- —All other countries400 t0%
Partner concentration (HHI): 4,049 · 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
- Exports61 kt
Where it goes · last 12 months
- 🇬🇧United Kingdom191 kt25%
- 🇺🇸United States122 kt16%
- 🇯🇵Japan52 kt7%
- 🇨🇭Switzerland31 kt4%
- 🇨🇦Canada23 kt3%
- 🇲🇦Morocco22 kt3%
- 🇩🇿Algeria21 kt3%
- 🇦🇺Australia21 kt3%
- 🇺🇦Ukraine20 kt3%
- 🇸🇦Saudi Arabia17 kt2%
- —All other countries210 kt28%
Partner concentration (HHI): 1,787 · 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€ 5,893
- Export unit value€ 6,973
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
- 202312 kt
- 202411 kt
- 202512 kt
Exports by month
- December
- 202361 kt
- 202461 kt
- 202574 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
289kt
+26.5% vs the year before
Imports · last 12 months
160kt
−9.4% vs the year before
United States
Jun 2026
Exports, 12-month average — EU vs US
- Jun 2026
- United States24 kt
Where it comes from
- Italy34 kt · 21%
- France24 kt · 15%
- Spain13 kt · 8%
- Netherlands13 kt · 8%
- Ireland12 kt · 8%
Where it goes
- Mexico110 kt · 38%
- Japan42 kt · 15%
- Australia29 kt · 10%
- Korea, South16 kt · 5%
- Canada15 kt · 5%
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
- 122 kt
- As the US files it
- 120 kt
- Gap
- −1.9 kt −2%
United States → Europe · May 2026
- As the EU files it
- 2.4 kt
- As the US files it
- 3.1 kt
- Gap
- +0.7 kt +23%
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.