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An error has been found in the trade in goods excluding oil, trade in goods excluding erratics and trade in goods excluding oil and erratics chained volume measures (CVMs) for the period January 2017 to March 2018 and related implied deflators (IDEFs) for the period January 1998 to March 2018 published on 10 July 2018. This was due to a processing error and does not affect any other series or aggregates in the MRETS dataset or the UK trade statistical bulletin. The time series affected are: BOXT, BPIT, BQAN, ELBD, BOXV, PBIV, BOVT, BPGT, BOVU, BPGU, BOVV, BPGV. The series have now been corrected.

We apologise for any inconvenience caused.

A small error in the trade in goods excluding oil and erratics import price indices occurred in the UK Trade: March 2018 publication tables and related time series dataset due to a processing error. The error impacted the trade in goods excluding oil and erratics import price index (series ELBA) for the period January 2018 to March 2018 in Table 3, the trade in goods excluding oil and erratics import price index growth rate in Table 4 and the trade in goods excluding oil and erratics import price indices for EU and non-EU (series SHCM and SHEB) in Table 6.

This had no impact on any other series or commentary in the UK trade: March 2018 publication.

The price series have now been corrected and ONS apologises for any inconvenience this may have caused.

You can see all previous versions of this data on the previous versions page.

An error has been found in the August 2017 Trade in goods MRETS (all BOP EU 2013) timeseries dataset. This affects the series BQHS, BQHQ, CLAS and CLAK for all time periods. This does not affect any other series or aggregates in the MRETS dataset or the UK trade statistical bulletin. The series have now been corrected, we apologise for any inconvenience. Please contact trade@ons.gsi.gov.uk for more information.