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UK Dairy Trade Balance

Published 9 April 10

UK Dairy Trade Balance

• Exports for all dairy products rose between 2008 and 2009, with the exception of raw milk and milk powders.   
• The imports in the raw milk market rose by 34 million litres between 2008 and 2009. While butter imports rose by 9,000 tonnes and cheese imports rose 6,000 tonnes.
• Comparing 2009 to 1999 shows that imports of raw milk and butter have fallen 25.2% and 20.4% respectively.

* Provisional

(a) Raw milk data is aggregated  from surveys run by Defra, RERAD and DARDNI, on the utilisation of milk by dairies.

(b) Includes butterfat and oil, dehydrated butter and ghee

(c) Includes stock changes

(d) Fresh, frozen and sterilised

(e) Includes condensed milk used in the production of chocolate crumb and in the production of sweetened and unsweetened machine skimmed milk.

(f) Include full cream powder, whole milk powder, partially skimmed milk powder and skimmed milk powder

Note: Butter and cream includes production from the residual fat of low fat milk products

Butter, cream and cheese production includes farmhouse manufacture

Source: Defra, DairyCo

UK Trade Balance in spend terms

The deficit in the UK trade balance in dairy products rose in 2009 by £68m to reach the record level of £1.27bn. The value of imported dairy products fell by £2m but the value of dairy exports fell by more: £70m.

Source: Customs & Excise

*Figures include estimates