Export of goods from Finland and import to Finland	Trade Balance

Finland's foreign trade with United Kingdom, exports to United Kingdom and imports from United Kingdom in January 2024

The text of the following analysis is produced by a computer program.

In January United Kingdom was Finland's seventh largest foreign trade partner. Rise from the previous month 2 places. United Kingdom's share of Finland's foreign trade in goods in January 2024 represented a share of 3.4 per cent. Share of Finland's that month's exports was 4.4 % and 2.6 % of imports. Amounting trade to worth of €402 million was 21.5 per cent bigger than in January of the previous year. The trade balance with United Kingdom during the review month was very favorable for Finland. The surplus was €101 million.

The value of imports from United Kingdom decreased by 7.6 per cent compared to January of the previous year, thus amounting to €151 million in January 2024. Major product categories of imports from United Kingdom were Sitc 333 (petroleum oils and oils obtained from bituminous minerals, crude), representing 32.9 per cent of imports, Sitc 781 (motor cars and other motor vehicles principally designed for the transport of persons (other than motor vehicles for the transport of ten or more persons, including the driver), including station-wagons and racing cars) 6.1 % and Sitc 874 (measuring, checking, analysing and controlling instruments and apparatus, n.e.s.) 3.5 % of the imports.

The value of exports to United Kingdom were 49.7 percent higher than in January of the previous year, thus amounting to €252 million. The largest product groups of exports were: Sitc 334 (petroleum oils and oils obtained from bituminous minerals (other than crude); preparations, n.e.s., containing by weight 70% or more of petroleum oils or of oils obtained from bituminous minerals, these oils being the basic constituents of the prepar), which represented a share of 28.0 per cent of total exports, Sitc 641 (paper and paperboard) 15.0 % and Sitc 725 (paper mill and pulp mill machinery, paper-cutting machines and other machinery for the manufacture of paper articles; parts thereof) 9.3 % of the exports.

United Kingdom's import to Finland, export from Finland to United Kingdom, trade and trade balance monthly

Export

Import

Modes of Transport

Year	Month	Import 1,000 €	Export 1,000 €	Trade 1,000 €	Trade Balance 1,000 €
2021	1	76,500	176,913	253,412	100,413
2021	2	100,321	160,076	260,397	59,756
2021	3	126,103	195,434	321,536	69,331
2021	4	111,158	178,425	289,582	67,267
2021	5	112,811	194,639	307,449	81,828
2021	6	108,234	228,628	336,862	120,394
2021	7	119,556	201,076	320,632	81,520
2021	8	107,773	237,262	345,035	129,489
2021	9	110,981	282,842	393,823	171,862
2021	10	134,080	263,329	397,410	129,249
2021	11	135,350	243,759	379,109	108,409
2021	12	132,099	197,511	329,610	65,412
2022	1	126,406	195,696	322,102	69,290
2022	2	126,771	179,292	306,062	52,521
2022	3	162,872	230,418	393,290	67,546
2022	4	319,337	192,374	511,711	-126,963
2022	5	182,650	380,245	562,895	197,594
2022	6	301,896	264,402	566,298	-37,495
2022	7	193,253	273,798	467,051	80,546
2022	8	126,419	215,722	342,141	89,302
2022	9	115,594	292,900	408,493	177,306
2022	10	184,262	229,196	413,459	44,934
2022	11	195,065	309,276	504,342	114,211
2022	12	161,772	166,848	328,620	5,076
2023	1	163,029	168,196	331,224	5,167
2023	2	188,238	185,174	373,412	-3,064
2023	3	165,009	248,160	413,169	83,151
2023	4	176,700	176,447	353,147	-252
2023	5	199,947	230,097	430,044	30,150
2023	6	159,502	276,021	435,522	116,519
2023	7	153,326	165,191	318,517	11,865
2023	8	115,442	276,583	392,025	161,141
2023	9	164,465	182,952	347,417	18,487
2023	10	104,021	233,996	338,017	129,975
2023	11	114,048	207,023	321,071	92,975
2023	12	158,971	212,663	371,635	53,692
2024	1	150,658	251,769	402,426	101,111

Source: Finnish Customs

Table: Finland's export to United Kingdom (GB) in September 2023 - January 2024

	2023/9		2023/10		2023/11		2023/12		2024/1
	1000 €	%	1000 €	%	1000 €	%	1000 €	%	1000 €	%
0. Food and live animals	928	0.5	2,686	1.1	1,175	0.6	787	0.4	744	0.3
00. Live animals									1	0.0
01. Meat and meat preparations					5	0.0	1	0.0
02. Dairy products and birds' eggs	143	0.1	287	0.1	286	0.1	288	0.1	145	0.1
03. Fish and fish preparations
04. Cereals and cereal preparations	98	0.1	1,893	0.8	155	0.1	161	0.1	159	0.1
05. Vegetables and fruit	15	0.0	27	0.0	105	0.1	53	0.0	40	0.0
06. Sugars,sugar preparations and honey	311	0.2	296	0.1	257	0.1	191	0.1	184	0.1
07. Coffee,tea,cocoa,spices	32	0.0	50	0.0	62	0.0	52	0.0	32	0.0
08. Feeding stuff for animals					41	0.0			18	0.0
09. Miscellaneous edible products and preparations	330	0.2	134	0.1	264	0.1	41	0.0	163	0.1
1. Beverages and tobacco	509	0.3	167	0.1	188	0.1	17	0.0	225	0.1
11. Beverages	509	0.3	167	0.1	188	0.1	17	0.0	225	0.1
2. Crude materials,inedible,except fuels	26,759	14.6	16,743	7.2	15,011	7.3	18,983	8.9	17,318	6.9
23. Crude rubber (incl.synthetic)									1	0.0
24. Cork and wood	14,153	7.7	12,855	5.5	12,246	5.9	15,141	7.1	12,612	5.0
25. Pulp and waste paper	1,837	1.0	2,899	1.2	1,952	0.9	2,278	1.1	2,803	1.1
26. Textile fibres and their wastes	7	0.0	1	0.0	4	0.0	3	0.0	2	0.0
27. Crude fertilizers and crude minerals	32	0.0	38	0.0	62	0.0	18	0.0	122	0.0
28. Metalliferous ores and metal scrap	10,719	5.9	948	0.4	745	0.4	1,534	0.7	1,778	0.7
29. Crude animal,vegetable materials n.e.s.	11	0.0	1	0.0	2	0.0	9	0.0	1	0.0
3. Mineral fuels etc	6,975	3.8	50,769	21.7	22,783	11.0	67,730	31.8	70,428	28.0
33. Petroleum and products	6,975	3.8	50,769	21.7	22,783	11.0	67,730	31.8	70,428	28.0
4. Animal and vegetable oils and fats	5	0.0	17	0.0	3	0.0			3	0.0
42. Fixed vegetable fats and oils	4	0.0	17	0.0	2	0.0			3	0.0
43. Processed animal or vegetable oils,etc.
5. Chemicals and related products,n.e.s.	11,315	6.2	20,809	8.9	17,746	8.6	14,074	6.6	15,488	6.2
51. Organic chemicals	2,400	1.3	4,289	1.8	2,980	1.4	2,481	1.2	4,562	1.8
52. Inorganic chemicals	1,435	0.8	1,844	0.8	1,875	0.9	170	0.1	162	0.1
53. Dyeing,tanning and colouring material	338	0.2	288	0.1	367	0.2	239	0.1	302	0.1
54. Medicinal and pharmaceutical products	748	0.4	6,484	2.8	3,047	1.5	4,513	2.1	1,832	0.7
55. Perfume,cleaning etc.preparations	105	0.1	88	0.0	137	0.1	17	0.0	126	0.0
56. Fertilizers,manufactured	105	0.1	132	0.1	570	0.3	454	0.2
57. Plastics in primary forms	2,867	1.6	3,734	1.6	5,005	2.4	3,426	1.6	4,889	1.9
58. Plastics in non-primary forms	2,400	1.3	3,039	1.3	2,991	1.4	1,794	0.8	2,817	1.1
59. Chemical materials and products,n.e.s.	916	0.5	912	0.4	773	0.4	978	0.5	799	0.3
6. Basic manufactures	64,955	35.5	67,697	28.9	70,392	34.0	55,857	26.3	59,864	23.8
61. Leather,dressed fur,etc.	104	0.1	39	0.0	115	0.1	118	0.1	83	0.0
62. Rubber manufactures,n.e.s.	305	0.2	472	0.2	366	0.2	272	0.1	375	0.1
63. Wood and cork manufactures	5,335	2.9	6,801	2.9	7,954	3.8	5,467	2.6	6,509	2.6
64. Paper,paperboard and articles thereof	43,630	23.8	41,602	17.8	44,740	21.6	32,406	15.2	39,044	15.5
65. Textile yarn,fabrics,made up articles,etc.	808	0.4	1,309	0.6	1,092	0.5	712	0.3	838	0.3
66. Non-metallic mineral manufactures,n.e.s.	1,135	0.6	928	0.4	1,228	0.6	1,153	0.5	966	0.4
67. Iron and steel	7,266	4.0	10,630	4.5	8,165	3.9	8,170	3.8	5,813	2.3
68. Non-ferrous metals	4,075	2.2	3,170	1.4	3,576	1.7	5,896	2.8	3,279	1.3
69. Manufactures of metals,n.e.s.	2,297	1.3	2,746	1.2	3,156	1.5	1,664	0.8	2,958	1.2
7. Machinery,transport equipment	59,054	32.3	61,177	26.1	65,473	31.6	43,952	20.7	74,092	29.4
71. Power generating machinery and equipment	14,026	7.7	7,603	3.2	9,584	4.6	3,215	1.5	11,755	4.7
72. Machinery for specialized industries	10,339	5.7	28,160	12.0	29,196	14.1	18,183	8.5	34,405	13.7
73. Metal working machinery	911	0.5	899	0.4	1,137	0.5	390	0.2	1,260	0.5
74. General industrial machinery n.e.s.	5,769	3.2	6,627	2.8	7,909	3.8	5,841	2.7	8,582	3.4
75. Office machines and adp machines	513	0.3	1,020	0.4	555	0.3	1,834	0.9	787	0.3
76. Telecommunications and sound recording equipment	1,945	1.1	1,949	0.8	2,063	1.0	1,633	0.8	1,279	0.5
77. Electric machinery,n.e.s.and parts	18,642	10.2	8,328	3.6	9,860	4.8	9,771	4.6	11,415	4.5
78. Road vehicles	3,275	1.8	4,713	2.0	4,640	2.2	2,114	1.0	3,870	1.5
79. Other transport equipment	3,634	2.0	1,879	0.8	529	0.3	971	0.5	738	0.3
8. Miscellaneous manufactured articles	12,452	6.8	13,931	6.0	14,253	6.9	11,262	5.3	13,607	5.4
81. Prefabr.buildings;sanitary,lighting etc.fixtrs	802	0.4	1,040	0.4	825	0.4	230	0.1	428	0.2
82. Furniture and parts thereof	1,287	0.7	952	0.4	1,847	0.9	499	0.2	1,045	0.4
83. Travel goods,handbags and sim.containers	52	0.0	42	0.0	70	0.0	41	0.0	71	0.0
84. Articles of apparel and clothing accessories	385	0.2	592	0.3	399	0.2	420	0.2	539	0.2
85. Footwear	199	0.1	244	0.1	236	0.1	208	0.1	304	0.1
87. Instruments and apparates n.e.s.	7,928	4.3	9,385	4.0	9,188	4.4	8,905	4.2	9,263	3.7
88. Photographic equipment,optical goods etc.	207	0.1	69	0.0	84	0.0	42	0.0	78	0.0
89. Miscellaneous manufactured articles,n.e.s.	1,591	0.9	1,607	0.7	1,604	0.8	917	0.4	1,879	0.7
All groups combined	182,952	100.0	233,996	100.0	207,023	100.0	212,663	100.0	251,769	100.0

Source: Finnish Customs

Table: Finland's import from United Kingdom (GB) in September 2023 - January 2024

	2023/9		2023/10		2023/11		2023/12		2024/1
	1000 €	%	1000 €	%	1000 €	%	1000 €	%	1000 €	%
0. Food and live animals	5,283	3.2	7,525	7.2	7,700	6.8	5,961	3.7	4,187	2.8
00. Live animals	1	0.0	4	0.0					1	0.0
01. Meat and meat preparations	48	0.0	25	0.0	37	0.0	25	0.0	34	0.0
02. Dairy products and birds' eggs	141	0.1	233	0.2	196	0.2	187	0.1	139	0.1
03. Fish and fish preparations	21	0.0	12	0.0	23	0.0	21	0.0	17	0.0
04. Cereals and cereal preparations	1,218	0.7	2,178	2.1	1,473	1.3	1,005	0.6	1,084	0.7
05. Vegetables and fruit	223	0.1	328	0.3	358	0.3	159	0.1	182	0.1
06. Sugars,sugar preparations and honey	80	0.0	121	0.1	187	0.2	126	0.1	61	0.0
07. Coffee,tea,cocoa,spices	400	0.2	372	0.4	390	0.3	430	0.3	473	0.3
08. Feeding stuff for animals	1,104	0.7	964	0.9	1,198	1.1	985	0.6	1,073	0.7
09. Miscellaneous edible products and preparations	2,049	1.2	3,288	3.2	3,839	3.4	3,024	1.9	1,122	0.7
1. Beverages and tobacco	2,240	1.4	2,594	2.5	2,921	2.6	2,585	1.6	1,805	1.2
11. Beverages	2,240	1.4	2,561	2.5	2,920	2.6	2,585	1.6	1,805	1.2
12. Tobacco and tobacco manufactures			34	0.0
2. Crude materials,inedible,except fuels	2,245	1.4	2,157	2.1	2,355	2.1	1,059	0.7	1,171	0.8
22. Oil seeds,oleaginous fruits							6	0.0
23. Crude rubber (incl.synthetic)	3	0.0	44	0.0	10	0.0	1	0.0	3	0.0
24. Cork and wood	281	0.2	273	0.3	496	0.4			2	0.0
25. Pulp and waste paper	150	0.1	119	0.1	137	0.1	90	0.1	9	0.0
26. Textile fibres and their wastes	5	0.0	9	0.0	7	0.0	153	0.1	7	0.0
27. Crude fertilizers and crude minerals	1,783	1.1	1,679	1.6	1,681	1.5	800	0.5	1,077	0.7
28. Metalliferous ores and metal scrap			12	0.0	1	0.0	1	0.0
29. Crude animal,vegetable materials n.e.s.	24	0.0	20	0.0	24	0.0	7	0.0	74	0.0
3. Mineral fuels etc	65,946	40.1	89	0.1	256	0.2	64,767	40.7	50,844	33.7
33. Petroleum and products	65,945	40.1	89	0.1	255	0.2	58,477	36.8	50,844	33.7
34. Gas,natural and manufactured							6,290	4.0
4. Animal and vegetable oils and fats	80	0.0	2,030	2.0	85	0.1	50	0.0	163	0.1
42. Fixed vegetable fats and oils	80	0.0	30	0.0	84	0.1	50	0.0	162	0.1
43. Processed animal or vegetable oils,etc.			2,000	1.9	2	0.0	1	0.0	1	0.0
5. Chemicals and related products,n.e.s.	22,605	13.7	19,292	18.5	23,343	20.5	18,672	11.7	27,352	18.2
51. Organic chemicals	2,979	1.8	2,500	2.4	2,156	1.9	2,199	1.4	5,055	3.4
52. Inorganic chemicals	1,589	1.0	180	0.2	190	0.2	1,419	0.9	3,689	2.4
53. Dyeing,tanning and colouring material	1,209	0.7	1,437	1.4	1,577	1.4	1,087	0.7	1,598	1.1
54. Medicinal and pharmaceutical products	7,433	4.5	5,838	5.6	8,715	7.6	5,752	3.6	6,265	4.2
55. Perfume,cleaning etc.preparations	3,101	1.9	3,127	3.0	3,572	3.1	2,528	1.6	3,094	2.1
56. Fertilizers,manufactured	3	0.0	4	0.0	378	0.3	141	0.1	311	0.2
57. Plastics in primary forms	2,023	1.2	2,744	2.6	2,085	1.8	1,607	1.0	2,632	1.7
58. Plastics in non-primary forms	1,699	1.0	1,321	1.3	1,362	1.2	1,088	0.7	1,310	0.9
59. Chemical materials and products,n.e.s.	2,570	1.6	2,140	2.1	3,308	2.9	2,851	1.8	3,399	2.3
6. Basic manufactures	14,364	8.7	12,879	12.4	18,877	16.6	11,453	7.2	12,681	8.4
61. Leather,dressed fur,etc.	34	0.0	36	0.0	39	0.0	38	0.0	59	0.0
62. Rubber manufactures,n.e.s.	1,021	0.6	653	0.6	691	0.6	557	0.4	563	0.4
63. Wood and cork manufactures	41	0.0	19	0.0	34	0.0	31	0.0	34	0.0
64. Paper,paperboard and articles thereof	2,561	1.6	2,200	2.1	3,055	2.7	2,058	1.3	3,196	2.1
65. Textile yarn,fabrics,made up articles,etc.	1,496	0.9	1,438	1.4	3,035	2.7	1,972	1.2	1,645	1.1
66. Non-metallic mineral manufactures,n.e.s.	1,209	0.7	1,142	1.1	1,703	1.5	768	0.5	922	0.6
67. Iron and steel	2,982	1.8	2,918	2.8	4,415	3.9	1,383	0.9	1,387	0.9
68. Non-ferrous metals	2,570	1.6	2,677	2.6	3,931	3.4	2,533	1.6	3,436	2.3
69. Manufactures of metals,n.e.s.	2,452	1.5	1,796	1.7	1,975	1.7	2,112	1.3	1,441	1.0
7. Machinery,transport equipment	39,517	24.0	45,429	43.7	46,294	40.6	40,272	25.3	39,127	26.0
71. Power generating machinery and equipment	2,308	1.4	2,916	2.8	3,074	2.7	2,209	1.4	3,464	2.3
72. Machinery for specialized industries	4,464	2.7	6,896	6.6	9,647	8.5	5,379	3.4	5,086	3.4
73. Metal working machinery	1,099	0.7	311	0.3	486	0.4	587	0.4	460	0.3
74. General industrial machinery n.e.s.	7,003	4.3	7,425	7.1	7,847	6.9	8,354	5.3	7,994	5.3
75. Office machines and adp machines	1,123	0.7	1,270	1.2	1,461	1.3	1,652	1.0	771	0.5
76. Telecommunications and sound recording equipment	872	0.5	920	0.9	769	0.7	1,937	1.2	732	0.5
77. Electric machinery,n.e.s.and parts	4,896	3.0	4,857	4.7	5,439	4.8	4,734	3.0	5,304	3.5
78. Road vehicles	17,044	10.4	20,040	19.3	17,187	15.1	14,771	9.3	14,591	9.7
79. Other transport equipment	707	0.4	794	0.8	385	0.3	648	0.4	724	0.5
8. Miscellaneous manufactured articles	11,055	6.7	10,911	10.5	10,769	9.4	12,614	7.9	11,992	8.0
81. Prefabr.buildings;sanitary,lighting etc.fixtrs	138	0.1	217	0.2	114	0.1	130	0.1	193	0.1
82. Furniture and parts thereof	383	0.2	576	0.6	585	0.5	338	0.2	441	0.3
83. Travel goods,handbags and sim.containers	47	0.0	43	0.0	46	0.0	56	0.0	37	0.0
84. Articles of apparel and clothing accessories	630	0.4	500	0.5	477	0.4	400	0.3	398	0.3
85. Footwear	99	0.1	107	0.1	95	0.1	67	0.0	94	0.1
87. Instruments and apparates n.e.s.	5,749	3.5	4,193	4.0	4,519	4.0	8,041	5.1	6,623	4.4
88. Photographic equipment,optical goods etc.	357	0.2	342	0.3	329	0.3	291	0.2	308	0.2
89. Miscellaneous manufactured articles,n.e.s.	3,651	2.2	4,932	4.7	4,603	4.0	3,291	2.1	3,898	2.6
9. Goods not classified elsewhere	1,129	0.7	1,115	1.1	1,449	1.3	1,538	1.0	1,335	0.9
93. Special transactions and commodities not classified	1,128	0.7	1,111	1.1	1,445	1.3	1,538	1.0	1,332	0.9
96. Coin (not gold coin or legal)
97. Gold,non-monetary	1	0.0	4	0.0	4	0.0			3	0.0
All groups combined	164,465	100.0	104,021	100.0	114,048	100.0	158,971	100.0	150,658	100.0

Source: Finnish Customs

Table: Modes of Transport

Vienti	2023/9		2023/10		2023/11		2023/12		2024/1
Vienti	1000 €	%	1000 €	%	1000 €	%	1000 €	%	1000 €	%
1 Sea transport (including car ferry and train ferry transport	161,882	87.2	224,361	93.1	191,568	91.3	198,831	92.9	237,645	93.6
2 Rail transport	3,272	1.8	4,116	1.7	3,032	1.4	2,605	1.2	3,545	1.4
3 Road transport (only possible at the border)	2,005	1.1	0		3,260	1.6	1,708	0.8	1,584	0.6
4 Air transport	18,370	9.9	12,473	5.2	11,884	5.7	10,894	5.1	11,145	4.4
5 Postal consignments	26	0.0	45	0.0	76	0.0	12	0.0	30	0.0
7 Stationary modes of transport (pipe, cable, electric cable)	0		0		0		0		0
8 Inland water transport (the Saimaa canal)	0		0		0		0		0
9 Own propulsion (watercraft and aircraft)	0		0		0		0		0
0 Unknowen mode of transport	0		0		0		0		0
*0-9 All modes of transport together	185,554	100.0	240,995	100.0	209,821	100.0	214,051	100.0	253,949	100.0

Tuonti	2023/9		2023/10		2023/11		2023/12		2024/1
Tuonti	1000 €	%	1000 €	%	1000 €	%	1000 €	%	1000 €	%
1 Sea transport (including car ferry and train ferry transport	150,527	90.5	95,903	86.1	101,928	87.2	163,660	91.7	137,466	90.4
2 Rail transport	1,713	1.0	1,192	1.1	1,160	1.0	916	0.5	2,179	1.4
3 Road transport (only possible at the border)	1,914	1.2	1,278	1.1	1,155	1.0	847	0.5	829	0.5
4 Air transport	10,555	6.3	11,345	10.2	10,705	9.2	10,928	6.1	9,694	6.4
5 Postal consignments	1,653	1.0	1,628	1.5	1,966	1.7	2,119	1.2	1,821	1.2
7 Stationary modes of transport (pipe, cable, electric cable)	0		0		0		0		0
8 Inland water transport (the Saimaa canal)	0		0		0		0		0
9 Own propulsion (watercraft and aircraft)	0		0		0		0		0
0 Unknowen mode of transport	0		0		0		0		0
*0-9 All modes of transport together	166,362	100.0	111,346	100.0	116,913	100.0	178,470	100.0	151,989	100.0

Source: Finnish Customs

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