Transparency data

Export Wins globally: April to June 2026

Published 27 August 2026

1. Global Export Wins confirmed in April to June 2026

An ‘Export Win’ is an agreed trade opportunity, such as a deal, contract, sale, or other specific type of agreement that has resulted from support provided by the former Department for Business and Trade (DBT), now the Department for Business, Innovation, Science and Trade (BIST). Most commonly, this involves UK businesses exporting goods and services, although it can also include overseas businesses importing from the UK. The value of an Export Win is a forecast value over the subsequent 5-year period. Export Wins are just one of the metrics through which BIST’s objective to promote and provide support to UK exporters is monitored. 

243 Export Wins with a combined forecast value of £2.6 billion were confirmed by UK businesses in April to June 2026 as having been won during the previous 12 months as a result of support by DBT.

April to June 2026
Volume	Value
243	£2.6 billion

2. Export Wins methodology and production   

An Export Win record is created using a digital framework that registers information entered by a lead officer from former DBT, now BIST. Lead officers are responsible for the quality and accuracy of the data they enter. Once the Win has been entered, the UK business who received support in exporting is required to confirm the Win through a separate online form. This report includes Wins where support has been provided to an overseas business to help import from the UK, in addition to those Wins achieved by UK businesses. In these cases, the overseas customer is required to confirm the Win.

A record is defined as a Win once it has been confirmed and this must be done within 12 months of the business winning the deal. This report presents global Export Wins that were confirmed in April to June 2026, although the deals themselves may have been won up to 12 months earlier.

The metric only captures businesses that DBT assisted who have realised a deal, not those DBT worked with but have not reached a deal. 

The metric is a departmental performance measure and does not capture exporting activity on the same basis as measured in official trade statistics. The Office for National Statistics (ONS) and His Majesty’s Revenue and Customs (HMRC) both publish exporting data at the UK level. For more information, visit ONS and UK Trade Info.

Export Wins totals on a financial year basis have been published in DBT’s Annual Report and Accounts (ARA) since 2016. Methodology for this publication is consistent with the methodology used for the ARA.

3. Export Wins accuracy and definitions 

The Export Win metric contains some inherent characteristics that can present challenges in assuring value and data accuracy. The metric is informed by evidence provided by businesses to establish and validate Win values. While guidance is provided to support a consistent approach to valuation, forecast values covering a period of up to 5 years are based on business expectations and projections and are therefore subject to a degree of uncertainty.

Some deals are very complex, involving global supply chains and in-market requirements for local supply or presence and the ask of businesses to separate export value from others is a distinction that is artificial for them. The information captured, represents a snapshot at a certain point in time based upon what the business is willing, or able, to provide.

4. Disclosure

Export Win data are commercially sensitive. Businesses provide this information to the department on the understanding that business and deal level data remain confidential and are used for internal purposes only. Only aggregated, non-disclosive statistics are published in the public domain. To avoid disclosing commercially sensitive information relating to individual businesses or deals, this publication conforms to the following disclosure rules.

4.1 Disclosure rules 

Excluding individual case studies: 

• test 1: the sum of all but the largest two units must exceed at least 12.5% of the value of the largest unit

• test 2: the largest unit must have less than 43.75% of the total

• test 3: the number of businesses must meet a threshold of 10

Where figures do not meet these disclosure rules, data may be suppressed to protect confidentiality. Secondary suppression may also be applied to prevent suppressed values from being derived through simple calculations using other published figures.

Application of these disclosure rules means that information may need to be redacted or the entire publication withheld on occasion.