Customs Importer and Exporter Population 2025
Summary
HMRC published official statistics on the UK customs importer and exporter population for 2025, covering 2021-2025 data. The publication reports on traders moving goods across EU and non-EU countries based on positive declarations of trade in goods. This statistical release succeeds the previous UK Importer and Exporter Population publication and includes methodology notes and data tables on trade partner regions, direction of movement, and annual business churn.
What changed
HMRC published the Customs Importer and Exporter Population 2025 official statistics, covering UK businesses engaged in EU and non-EU trade from 2021 to 2025. The release includes methodology notes and multiple data tables covering trade by partner region, direction of movement, and annual business churn. This publication succeeds the prior UK Importer and Exporter Population release.
Affected parties including importers, exporters, trade analysts, and government bodies should monitor for related statistical releases. The data may inform trade compliance planning and policy analysis but does not impose any new regulatory obligations on businesses.
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Official Statistics
Customs Importer and Exporter Population 2025
This publication provides the number of UK importing and exporting businesses with EU and non-EU countries, based upon a positive declaration of trade in goods.
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Details
Users should be aware that the 2021 to 2025 Customs Importer and Exporter Population publications succeed UK Importer and Exporter Population.
Customs Importer and Exporter Population reports only on traders moving goods in 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024 and 2025 and draws no comparison to data on previous years.
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Published 16 April 2026
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