EU trade flows · extra-EU

All trade flows

Whole milk powder

CN codes: 040221 · 040229

Latest customs month

May 2026

  • Imports · last 12 months

    13kt

    −20.9% vs the year before

  • Imports · avg unit value

    3,865€/t

  • Exports · last 12 months

    179kt

    −5.4% vs the year before

  • Exports · avg unit value

    4,539€/t

What the EU imports

Monthly imports

0.53 kt2.55 kt4.57 ktJan 2015Jan 2017Jan 2019Jan 2021Jan 2023Jan 2025
May 2026
12-month average1.12 kt
Imports1.63 kt
Imports12-month average

Where it comes from · last 12 months

  1. 🇬🇧United Kingdom7.9 kt59%
  2. 🇳🇿New Zealand4.4 kt33%
  3. 🇺🇦Ukraine786 t6%
  4. 🇺🇸United States128 t1%
  5. 🇳🇴Norway46 t0%
  6. 🇦🇪United Arab Emirates25 t0%
  7. 🇹🇭Thailand24 t0%
  8. QWNot specified20 t0%
  9. 🇷🇸Serbia18 t0%
  10. 🇦🇺Australia0 t0%
  11. All other countries9 t0%

Partner concentration (HHI): 4,624 · 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

14 kt26 kt38 ktJan 2015Jan 2017Jan 2019Jan 2021Jan 2023Jan 2025
May 2026
12-month average15 kt
Exports18 kt
Exports12-month average

Where it goes · last 12 months

  1. 🇴🇲Oman45 kt25%
  2. 🇬🇧United Kingdom17 kt10%
  3. 🇰🇼Kuwait12 kt7%
  4. 🇨🇳China9.4 kt5%
  5. 🇩🇴Dominican Republic6.7 kt4%
  6. 🇸🇳Senegal6.3 kt4%
  7. 🇱🇧Lebanon6.3 kt4%
  8. 🇸🇦Saudi Arabia6.1 kt3%
  9. 🇸🇬Singapore5.0 kt3%
  10. 🇮🇱Israel3.3 kt2%
  11. All other countries55 kt31%

Partner concentration (HHI): 1,824 · 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.

€ 1,698€ 3,363€ 5,028Jan 2015Jan 2017Jan 2019Jan 2021Jan 2023Jan 2025
May 2026
Import unit value€ 3,196
Export unit value€ 4,527
Import unit valueExport unit value

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

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December
20231 kt
20240 kt
20250 kt
2023202420252026kt

Exports by month

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December
202320 kt
202415 kt
202520 kt
2023202420252026kt

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

    43kt

    +38.8% vs the year before

  • Imports · last 12 months

    18kt

    −26.0% vs the year before

  • United States

    Jun 2026

Exports, 12-month average — EU vs US

4.55 kt18 kt31 ktJan 2015Jan 2017Jan 2019Jan 2021Jan 2023Jan 2025
Jun 2026
United States3.56 kt
EU-27United States

Where it comes from

  1. Mexico11 kt · 63%
  2. Netherlands3.4 kt · 19%
  3. New Zealand0.5 kt · 3%
  4. Venezuela0.5 kt · 3%
  5. Chile0.4 kt · 2%

Where it goes

  1. Peru11 kt · 25%
  2. Mexico7.9 kt · 19%
  3. Colombia5.7 kt · 13%
  4. Algeria3.8 kt · 9%
  5. Canada3.2 kt · 8%

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
0.1 kt
As the US files it
0.2 kt
Gap
+0.0 kt +26%

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.

Source: Eurostat (Comext, DS-045409), processing Get Fair Dairy — data vintage Jul 2026, last ingested 14 Aug 2026. · Sources & licences