Introduction
The key source of information about regional trade in goods is a quarterly statistical release from HMRC. It provides detailed information about the value of exports and imports of goods from and to the 12 ITL1 areas within the UK. The North East ITL1 area includes the North East and Tees Valley Mayoral Combined Authority areas.
The release includes information about the values of exports and imports by commodity and about the markets and sources of the goods across the world. Some of the quarterly trends are complicated by one-off, high value trading, so HMRC presents a lot of the information as four quarter totals in the release.
Even four quarter totals for individual markets and commodities show volatility over time, so the charts on this page include some aggregations of both. For further analysis, the HMRC site includes a tool that allows users to produce a customised regional trade data table.
The latest release included trade up to and including the third quarter of 2024 and was released in December 2024. The next release will cover the 2024 calendar year and is due to released on 20th March 2025.