"Figure 4: The widening of the trade deficit in real terms was due mainly to a widening of the trade in goods deficit","" "Total trade balances, chained volume measures, three-month on three-month, May 2017 to May 2019","" "","" "Notes","" "Unit","£ billion, chained volume measures, seasonally adjusted " "","" "","Goods balance ","Services balance ","Total trade balance" "2017 May","-32.834","27.021","-5.813" "2017 Aug","-34.196","26.991","-7.205" "2017 Nov","-32.133","29.48","-2.653" "2018 Feb","-30.613","27.909","-2.704" "2018 May","-34.35","26.436","-7.914" "2018 Aug","-31.273","25.424","-5.849" "2018 Nov","-32.313","26.702","-5.611" "2019 Feb","-43.524","26.633","-16.891" "2019 May","-40.341","26.324","-14.017"