"Figure 2: The UK’s total trade deficit narrowed to £0.4 billion in Quarter 3 2019, the narrowest deficit since Quarter 1 1998","" "UK trade in goods and services balances, Quarter 4 (Oct to Dec) 2016 to Quarter 3 (July to Sept) 2019","" "","" "Notes","1. Q1 refers to Quarter 1 (Jan to Mar), Q2 refers to Quarter 2 (Apr to June), Q3 refers to Quarter 3 (July to Sept) and Q4 refers to Quarter 4 (Oct to Dec)." "Unit","£ billion" "","" "","Trade in goods","Trade in services","Total trade in goods and services " "2016 Q4","-33.0","27.3","-5.7" "2017 Q1","-34.0","26.6","-7.4" "2017 Q2","-33.3","27.5","-5.8" "2017 Q3","-34.7","28.8","-5.9" "2017 Q4","-33.8","27.9","-5.9" "2018 Q1","-32.8","26.9","-5.9" "2018 Q2","-33.9","27.0","-6.9" "2018 Q3","-34.5","28.2","-6.3" "2018 Q4","-38.2","27.5","-10.8" "2019 Q1","-50.1","27.2","-22.9" "2019 Q2","-34.7","23.8","-10.9" "2019 Q3","-29.2","28.8","-0.4"