Where does the trade data come from? Use data on overseas income, or data on the goods traded, to better understand companies' connections to global markets.
There are two ways that we can understand companies' international trade. This is based on two data sources that we have for company exports.
- Companies House. Companies can choose to declare their overseas income - this can be either through exports, or through foreign operations. This details the value of overseas income, but not which goods or services have been exported.
- HMRC. Companies that import and export have to declare the goods traded and when they were traded. This includes information on imports. However, detail on the value of goods traded is not provided. Does not provide information on services that may have been traded.
Companies House
You can filter companies by the amount of overseas income.
HMRC data
We extract data from UK Trade Info and you can interact with this data in two main ways:
Trade data on company pages
Trade data filters
