Report
Exports Snapshot: Full Year 2019
Published: 15 July 2020
Updated: 15 July 2020
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We publish regular reports outlining the latest UK food and drink export statistics, which can help your company to prioritise markets for exporting. Our reports include: data on the UK's top food and drink exports, key export markets, areas for growth, and updates on FDF's trade-related policy work.
- In 2019, exports rose by 4.3% on the previous year, reaching a total of £23.6bn. The UK is now exporting 8.7% more (in value terms) to non-EU countries, lifting the share of total food and drink exports going to nonEU countries by 1.6pp.
- Q4 exports increased by 8.3% (y-o-y) to £6.1bn, driven by a rise in exports to non-EU markets.
- All of the UK’s top 10 products have seen an increase in value over the year, with pork and salmon seeing particularly high growth (exceeding 25%). In volume terms, wine is the only product to decline in 2019, while salmon and beef were significant sources of growth.
- The UK’s food and drink trade deficit continued to shrink last year, and is now 3.0% smaller than it was in 2019, signalling a relative decline in dependence on imports.
- Key impactors on UK food and drink exports analysed within this report include retaliatory tariffs imposed by the US in 2019, and the growing importance of Saudi Arabia as a market for branded good exports.
- Scotland remains the largest exporter of food and drink among the UK’s regions and nations.