Question to the Cabinet Office:

To ask His Majesty's Government what is the value of goods imported from China to the UK each year for the past 10 years.

The information requested falls under the remit of the UK Statistics Authority.

Please see the letter attached from the National Statistician and Chief Executive of the UK Statistics Authority.

The Lord Elliott of Ballinamallard

House of Lords

London

SW1A 0PW

27 October 2025

Dear Lord Elliott,

As Acting National Statistician, I am responding to your Parliamentary Question asking for the value of goods imported from China to the UK each year for the past 10 years (HL11221).

The Office for National Statistics (ONS) publishes UK trade in goods data at country level in our trade in goods: country by commodity imports dataset as part of our monthly UK trade release[1]. This data is available up to August 2025.

Data on UK imports of goods from China can be found in Table 1. Please note that all data are in current prices and, as such, include the effect of inflation.

Table 1: UK imports of goods from China, 2015 – 2024

£ billion, current prices, including precious metals

Source: Office for National Statistics

Yours sincerely,

Emma Rourke

[1]https://www.ons.gov.uk/economy/nationalaccounts/balanceofpayments/datasets/uktradecountrybycommodityimports