UK Furniture Imports by Country
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Source: HMRC UK Trade Info Overseas Trade Statistics API for HS 9401, 9402 and 9403.
Source description: UK furniture imports by partner country, based on country of dispatch and import value in British pounds over the latest 12-month period.
Table ID: industry/trade/uk_furniture_imports_ukti_hs4
Key findings:
- China's share is high versus peer EU import markets (EU, France, Germany), at about 37.2% of the latest 12-month import mix.
- The five largest supplier countries are China (37.2%), Italy (10.1%), Poland (8.7%), Germany (7.8%), France (3.8%), together accounting for about 67.7% of the latest 12-month import mix.
- The top-five supplier share is about 67.7%, making UK similarly concentrated relative to its EU import peers.
Latest data:
| value |
|---|
| 0.3724 |
| 0.1012 |
| 0.0874 |
| 0.0777 |
| 0.0384 |
| 0.0328 |
| 0.0317 |
| 0.0267 |
| 0.025 |
| 0.0174 |
| 0.1892 |
This page shows where the United Kingdom's imported furniture is dispatched from over the latest 12 months. It is useful for seeing which supplier countries matter most to UK retailers, wholesalers, ecommerce sellers and contract buyers, and whether sourcing is concentrated in a few large partners or spread across a broader base. For the UK, this matters because imported furniture plays a central role in store ranges, online assortments and price competition.
Market Context
A partner-country view turns the import total into a supply-chain map. It helps show the UK's reliance on nearby European dispatch routes, Asian manufacturing hubs and smaller specialist suppliers. That matters for lead times, currency exposure, freight costs, customs friction and the ability of buyers to switch sources when demand or logistics conditions change.
The ranking is based on import value, not the number of items shipped. A country can rank highly because it supplies higher-value furniture, because it acts as a dispatch hub, or because UK buyers source large volumes from that route. UK Trade Info reports imports by country of dispatch, so the partner is not always the same as the country where the furniture was originally manufactured.
