"Figure 4: The total trade deficit narrowed in the three months to April 2021","" "UK trade balances, excluding precious metals, three-month on three-month, April 2019 to April 2021","" "","" "Notes","" "Unit","£ billion" "","" "","Trade in goods balance (excluding precious metals)","Total trade balance (excluding precious metals)","Total trade balance","Trade in services balance" "Apr-19","-37.3","-12.3","-22.6","25" "Jul-19","-32.7","-6.3","-4","26.4" "Oct-19","-30.5","-5.1","-6.3","25.4" "Jan-20","-25","2.6","15.1","27.6" "Apr-20","-27.2","-1.8","-0.1","25.4" "Jul-20","-25","1.4","6.9","26.4" "Oct-20","-32.4","-5.1","-6.6","27.3" "Jan-21","-36.5","-7.6","-9.6","28.9" "Apr-21","-32.6","-3.2","-3.8","29.4"