Official statistics announcement

UK Trade: May 2021 time series

Total value of UK exports and imports of goods and services by current price, chained volume measures and implied deflators.

• From: Office for National Statistics
• Published: 22 April 2021
• Last updated: 8 July 2021 — See all updates

• Proposed release: 9 July 2021 7:00am
• Cancellation date: 8 July 2021 6:29pm

Statistics release cancelled

We have uncovered an error in the UK trade data prior to the planned release on 9 July 2021. The error has occurred as we opened up the 2020 year to take on board corrections to HMRC data for non-EU trade which has caused a processing issue for the EU data. We are not able to correct the data in time without a risk of further errors and as such we will not be publishing the UK trade timeseries on 9 July 2021 at 7am as planned. We will publish the corrected data as soon as possible. We will also be reviewing why the processing error occurred so that we can take action to minimise the risk of a similar issue in the future.