Asked by: Philip Hollobone (Conservative - Kettering)
Question to the Department for International Trade:
To ask the Secretary of State for International Trade, what proportion of the value of the UK's international trade in (a) goods and (b) services is conducted under free trade agreements.
Answered by Graham Stuart
In 2017, UK goods trade with non-EU countries, with which the UK has a preferential trading relationship due to its membership of the EU, accounted for 12.4% (equivalent to £102bn) of total UK goods trade with the world.
In 2016, UK services trade with non-EU countries, with which the UK has a preferential trading relationship due to its membership of the EU, accounted for 11.2% (equivalent to £45bn) of total UK services trade with the world.
Sources
Trade in goods: ONS Trade in goods MRETS (April 2018);
Trade in services: ONS Pink Book (October 2017). The next release is scheduled for 31st July 2018.
The figures referring to non-EU countries with which the UK has a preferential trading relationship exclude those countries with EU trade agreements that have not been provisionally applied yet, according to the European Commission website: http://ec.europa.eu/trade/policy/countries-and-regions/negotiations-and-agreements/#_in-place
Asked by: Philip Hollobone (Conservative - Kettering)
Question to the Department for International Trade:
To ask the Secretary of State for International Trade, what the value has been of trade between the UK and the Republic of Ireland (a) in total, (b) across the border between Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland border and (c) between Great Britain and the Republic of Ireland in each of the last three years.
Answered by Graham Stuart
Estimates of the value of UK trade in goods and services with Ireland (up to 2016) are available from the ONS Pink Book 2017:
Goods and services, £bn | 2014 | 2015 | 2016 |
UK exports of goods and services to Ireland | 27.9 | 27.0 | 26.7 |
UK imports of goods and services from Ireland | 17.8 | 18.5 | 20.8 |
UK trade in goods and services with Ireland | 45.7 | 45.5 | 47.4 |
Source: ONS Pink Book 2017. Data on a Balance of Payments basis. Trade figures may not sum up due to rounding differences.
More timely estimates, for trade in goods only, going up to April 2018 are available from the ONS (user requested data):
Goods only, £bn | 2015 | 2016 | 2017 |
UK exports of goods to Rep. Ireland | 17.4 | 17.2 | 19.7 |
UK imports of goods from Rep. Ireland | 12.7 | 13.6 | 14.9 |
UK trade in goods with Rep. Ireland | 30.2 | 30.8 | 34.6 |
Source: ONS user-requested data (published 18th June 2018). Data on a Balance of Payments basis. Trade figures may not sum up due to rounding differences.
Estimates of the value of trade in goods between Northern Ireland (NI) and the Republic of Ireland are available from HMRC’s interactive trade database (‘Build Your Own Data Tables’). Similar estimates for trade in services are not available.
https://www.uktradeinfo.com/Statistics/BuildYourOwnTables/Pages/Home.aspx
Goods only, £bn | 2015 | 2016 | 2017 |
NI exports of goods to Rep. Ireland | 2.2 | 2.4 | 2.7 |
NI imports of goods from Rep. Ireland | 2.0 | 1.9 | 2.1 |
NI trade in goods with Rep. Ireland | 4.2 | 4.3 | 4.8 |
(RTS Data)
Source: HMRC Regional Trade Statistics 2018Q1. Data on a ‘physical movement’ basis. Trade figures may not sum up due to rounding differences.
Estimates of the value of trade in goods between Great Britain and the Republic of Ireland are available from HMRC’s interactive trade database (‘Build Your Own Data Tables’). Similar estimates for trade in services are not available.
https://www.uktradeinfo.com/Statistics/BuildYourOwnTables/Pages/Home.aspx
(RTS Data)
Goods only, £bn | 2015 | 2016 | 2017 |
GB exports of goods to Ireland | 13.5 | 13.6 | 15.1 |
GB imports of goods from Ireland | 9.2 | 9.8 | 9.9 |
GB trade in goods with Ireland | 22.8 | 23.5 | 25.0 |
Source: HMRC Regional Trade Statistics 2018Q1. Data on a ‘physical movement’ basis. Trade figures may not sum up due to rounding differences.
Note: The ONS estimates in (a) above are on a Balance of Payments (‘change of ownership’) basis while the HMRC estimates in (b) and (c) are on a ‘physical movement’ basis, hence the two datasets are not comparable.