Official Statistics

UK trade in goods by business characteristics 2021

UK overseas trade in goods statistics (OTS) data has been linked with the Office for National Statistics (ONS) business statistics.

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HM Revenue & Customs (HMRC) has linked the Overseas Trade in Goods Statistics (OTS) with business statistics from the Office for National Statistics (ONS) Inter-Departmental Business Register (IDBR) to produce statistics on the attributes of UK businesses.

This release contains experimental statistics detailing the attributes of businesses (enterprises) that trade in goods (Exports and / or Non-EU Imports), broken down by industry group, size of business (number of employees) and age of business, with focus on changes in trade value, business counts, and employee counts between 2020 and 2021.

Updates to this page

Published 6 December 2022
Last updated 18 April 2023 + show all updates
  1. Industry groups 1-10 in the business characteristics guidance notes have been updated.

  2. First published.

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