"Figure 2: UK trade balances, three-month-on-three-month, May 2016 to May 2018","" "","" "","" "Notes","1. The total trade balance is the sum of the goods and services trade balances." "Unit","£ billion, seasonally adjusted" "","" "","Goods balance","Services balance","Total trade balance","Total trade balance excluding erratics" "2016 May","-31.0","24.5","-6.5","-6.8" "2016 Aug","-35.8","24.2","-11.6","-8.9" "2016 Nov","-34.7","27.3","-7.4","-8.0" "2017 Feb","-33.9","28.3","-5.6","-6.5" "2017 May","-33.4","27.6","-5.9","-6.3" "2017 Aug","-36.6","26.8","-9.8","-8.8" "2017 Nov","-33.8","28.8","-5.0","-6.1" "2018 Feb","-31.3","28.0","-3.3","-5.9" "2018 May","-36.3","27.9","-8.3","-8.7"