UK trade in goods by business characteristics
UK trade in goods by business characteristics data shows details of international trade in goods by industry group, age group, business size, and business location.
HM Revenue & Customs (HMRC) has linked the UK overseas trade in goods statistics (OTS) with business statistics from the Office for National Statistics (ONS) Inter-Departmental Business Register (IDBR). This provides statistics on the attributes of UK businesses with overseas trade in goods. Attributes are by industry group, age group, and business size (number of employees). Within each of these categories, the focus is on trade value, business counts, and employee counts. These data form the ‘UK trade in goods by business characteristics’ series.
HM Revenue & Customs (HMRC) has also linked the OTS and IDBR data with the ONS National Statistics Postcode Lookup (NSPL) and International Territorial Level (ITL) lookup. This provides statistics on the specific locations of UK businesses with overseas trade in goods. Attributes are by ITL Level 3. The focus is on counts of physical premises at these locations and counts of employees that work in them. These data form the ‘Local sites and numbers of employees linked to businesses involved in international trade in goods, by subnational areas of the UK’ series.
This is a collection of all UK trade in goods statistics by business characteristics on GOV.UK. These are official statistics. Releases prior to the 2023 release were ‘official statistics in development’, previously called ‘experimental statistics’. Information on types of official statistics is available on the UK Statistics Authority website.