EU trade flows · extra-EU
All trade flowsProcessed cheese
CN codes: 040630
Latest customs month
May 2026
Imports · last 12 months
9.4kt
+42.2% vs the year before
Imports · avg unit value
4,998€/t
Exports · last 12 months
132kt
+0.9% vs the year before
Exports · avg unit value
5,509€/t
What the EU imports
Monthly imports
- May 2026
- 12-month average0.78 kt
- Imports1.29 kt
Where it comes from · last 12 months
- 🇬🇧United Kingdom8.3 kt89%
- 🇨🇭Switzerland737 t8%
- 🇺🇦Ukraine226 t2%
- QWNot specified54 t1%
- 🇹🇷Türkiye24 t0%
- 🇷🇸Serbia10 t0%
- 🇧🇾Belarus2 t0%
- 🇦🇺Australia1 t0%
- 🇳🇴Norway1 t0%
- 🇺🇸United States0 t0%
- —All other countries0 t0%
Partner concentration (HHI): 7,939 · high
Countries outside a product's top twelve are counted under "all other countries" — the totals and shares stay honest, the list stays readable.
What the EU exports
Monthly exports
- May 2026
- 12-month average11 kt
- Exports9.86 kt
Where it goes · last 12 months
- 🇬🇧United Kingdom30 kt23%
- 🇸🇦Saudi Arabia12 kt9%
- 🇮🇶Iraq7.4 kt6%
- 🇱🇾Libya6.6 kt5%
- 🇯🇵Japan6.0 kt5%
- 🇨🇳China5.2 kt4%
- 🇨🇭Switzerland4.7 kt4%
- 🇺🇦Ukraine4.7 kt4%
- 🇪🇬Egypt3.4 kt3%
- 🇦🇪United Arab Emirates3.3 kt3%
- —All other countries42 kt32%
Partner concentration (HHI): 1,792 · moderate
Countries outside a product's top twelve are counted under "all other countries" — the totals and shares stay honest, the list stays readable.
Unit values
Declared value divided by declared weight, in euros per tonne — the closest thing a customs record has to a price. Import and export are not the same market: one is landed cost at the EU border, the other is border value on the way out.
- May 2026
- Import unit value€ 4,417
- Export unit value€ 5,362
The seasonal shape
The same twelve months laid over each other, per direction — this year drawn against the three before it, so a spring running ahead of last spring shows immediately.
Imports by month
- December
- 20230 kt
- 20241 kt
- 20251 kt
Exports by month
- December
- 202311 kt
- 202411 kt
- 202512 kt
Across the Atlantic: the US record
The same product through American customs — the Census Bureau files about a month faster than Comext, in dollars, under its own ten-digit lines. Volumes compare on the HS6 root both nomenclatures share; the codes beneath it do not.
Exports · last 12 months
29kt
+6.7% vs the year before
Imports · last 12 months
12kt
−8.6% vs the year before
United States
Jun 2026
Exports, 12-month average — EU vs US
- Jun 2026
- United States2.39 kt
Where it comes from
- France3.2 kt · 28%
- Morocco2.0 kt · 18%
- Netherlands1.4 kt · 12%
- Jamaica1.1 kt · 10%
- Germany0.7 kt · 6%
Where it goes
- Korea, South4.4 kt · 15%
- Saudi Arabia3.6 kt · 12%
- Australia2.6 kt · 9%
- Guatemala2.1 kt · 7%
- Colombia1.7 kt · 6%
The same shipment, two customs records
Two customs services, one trade, and rarely the same number. Small gaps are timing and freight. Large ones mean something structural: an export is filed the moment the cargo leaves, while an import is only filed once customs clears it. Where the gap is wide, our reading is that goods are waiting in port for clearance, which can take a long time — but that is an assumption, not something the customs record proves. Re-exports, transshipment and differing tariff-line coverage sit in between as well. Neither book is wrong; knowing which one a counterparty is quoting is the point.
Europe → United States · May 2026
- As the EU files it
- 2.9 kt
- As the US files it
- 6.0 kt
- Gap
- +3.1 kt +52%
United States → Europe · May 2026
- As the EU files it
- 0.0 kt
- As the US files it
- 0.0 kt
- Gap
- +0.0 kt +99%
US quantities are aggregated from ten-digit HTS/Schedule B lines that differ from the EU's CN lines beneath the shared six-digit root; values stay in dollars on purpose. Lines filed in litres are converted at 1.03 kg/l.
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, USA Trade Online — public domain, credited as a courtesy. Retrieved 14 Aug 2026.
Extra-EU trade of the EU-27 aggregate. Flows between member states are a separate record and are never mixed in.
Customs data is living data: recent months are provisional and can be revised for a year or more. Every revision the daily ingest sees is recorded, never silently overwritten.