Total Trade less erratics (TTlessE): WW: Exports: BOP: CP: SA

We have identified an error in MRET: UK trade time series where data published for January, February and March 2023 were incorrect. This error occurred because of human error and has now been corrected.

This error only affects MRET: UK trade time series.

There has been a minor error identified with the rounding process for a number of monthly total trade series in 2020. This has resulted in rounding discrepancies of about £1m when the annual figure are compared with the 12 month aggregate, and similarly when the quarterly figure are compared with the 3 month aggregate. The series affected are:

IKBH, IKBI, IKBK, IKBL, IKBM, CPLX, CPLY, CTVP, CTVQ, FSA2, FSA3, FSIJ, FSIG.

This does not impact any of the key points and messages in this release or any other data series.

This has now been corrected.

We apologise for any inconvenience this may have caused.

An error has been identified in the “Total trade excluding erratics” series CPLX, CPLY and CPLZ. These series are included in table 1CONT. of the excel and PDF versions of the publication tables for the UK Trade: December 2016 release and associated time-series dataset. These components have now been corrected.

We apologise for any inconvenience.