"Figure 1: The total trade surplus, excluding precious metals, widened in the three months to July","" "UK trade balances, excluding non-monetary gold and other precious metals, three-months on three-months, July 2018 to July 2020","" "","" "Notes","" "Unit","£ billion, seasonally adjusted" "","" "","Services balance","Goods balance","Total trade balance","Total trade balance excluding precious metals" "2018 Jul","27.493","-32.889","-5.396","-5.783" "2018 Oct","27.998","-35.214","-7.216","-6.426" "2019 Jan","27.509","-42.678","-15.169","-12.017" "2019 Apr","27.209","-47.534","-20.325","-9.993" "2019 Jul","27.522","-28.919","-1.397","-3.686" "2019 Oct","25.552","-31.401","-5.849","-4.703" "2020 Jan","26.333","-12.157","14.176","1.432" "2020 Apr","27.174","-26.308","0.866","0.54" "2020 Jul","29.59","-17.577","12.013","6.39"