AYBARION TRADEImport market · HS 2616 · GB
United Kingdom imports of Precious metal ores and concentrates (HS 2616)
Where United Kingdom buys precious metal ores and concentrates: value, growth, unit value and the top suppliers, from official CEPII BACI statistics. World market for HS 2616 · United Kingdom trade profile
Top suppliers
| # | Supplier | Value 2024 | Share | Growth | Record |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | South Africa | USD 368.9 million | 64.8% | −8.8% | BACI:GB:ZA:2616:1:2024 |
| 2 | Germany | USD 108.1 million | 19.0% | −59.0% | BACI:GB:DE:2616:1:2024 |
| 3 | Poland | USD 31.4 million | 5.5% | not available | BACI:GB:PL:2616:1:2024 |
| 4 | Sweden | USD 26.3 million | 4.6% | −0.8% | BACI:GB:SE:2616:1:2024 |
| 5 | United States | USD 19.9 million | 3.5% | +7,328.1% | BACI:GB:US:2616:1:2024 |
| 6 | Finland | USD 11.5 million | 2.0% | −42.5% | BACI:GB:FI:2616:1:2024 |
| 7 | France | USD 1.8 million | 0.3% | +32,558.5% | BACI:GB:FR:2616:1:2024 |
| 8 | Ireland | USD 1.2 million | 0.2% | +2,213,546.3% | BACI:GB:IE:2616:1:2024 |
| 9 | Türkiye | USD 48,858 | 0.0% | −63.1% | BACI:GB:TR:2616:1:2024 |
| 10 | Kazakhstan | USD 14,580 | 0.0% | +1,062.7% | BACI:GB:KZ:2616:1:2024 |
Source: CEPII BACI HS22 V202601, year 2024 (growth against 2023), USD. Shares of the United Kingdom total over the partners BACI lists. Record IDs per row.
Trade companies: active companies registered in wholesale and retail trade (NACE section G) in United Kingdom, counted in the AYBARION company directory. The matching wholesale activity for this product is Wholesale of metals and metal ores (NACE 4672). Counts only.
Import requirements in United Kingdom
- United Kingdom: 14 import measures recorded for HS 2616 (controls, licences, certificates, quotas and duties at commodity code level). Source: UK Integrated Online Tariff: measures on declarable commodities.
- United Kingdom: third country (MFN) duty 0.0% ad valorem across 6 tariff lines. Preferential rates under trade agreements can be lower. Source: UK Integrated Online Tariff: duty measures on declarable commodities.
Counts of official tariff measures, not advice. Members see every measure, document code and duty for their own origin and destination.
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Data Passport
- CEPII BACI HS22 V202601: trade values by exporter, importer and product, years 2024 and 2023, USD at FOB prices, quantities in metric tons. Publisher: CEPII. Licence: Etalab Open Licence 2.0 (Licence Ouverte), attribution "CEPII BACI". Record IDs: BACI:reporter:product:flow:year. Source
- UK Integrated Online Tariff: measures on declarable commodities (GB measures): Department for Business and Trade / HMRC. Licence: Open Government Licence v3.0. Snapshot 2026-10-22. Source
- UK Integrated Online Tariff: duty measures on declarable commodities (GB measures): Department for Business and Trade / HMRC. Licence: Open Government Licence v3.0. Snapshot 2026-10-22. Source
- AYBARION company directory: counts of active companies registered in wholesale and retail trade (NACE Rev.2 section G), from official registers and open datasets, built 2026-10-22. Counts only: no names, addresses or contacts are shown here. Sources under share-alike licences (CC BY-SA) or with an unverified licence are not counted, and no company data is offered for countries under comprehensive sanctions.
- Method: Values are CEPII BACI reconciled flows of United Kingdom with each partner, aggregated from HS6 to HS4; the total is the sum over partners; shares divide each partner by that total; growth compares 2024 with 2023; unit value is value divided by quantity over flows that report a quantity. Peru and the Philippines are left out of lists and totals by policy.
Trade database built 2026-10-24. Values are official statistics as published; nothing on this page is estimated or invented. More in our methodology.
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