Electric Scooters: China
The question
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many e-scooters have been imported from China in (a) 2022, (b) 2023, (c) 2024 and (d) 2025.
Answered by Dan Tomlinson
HM Revenue & Customs (HMRC) is responsible for the collection and publication of data on imports and exports of goods to and from the UK which includes data on imports of e-scooters. HMRC releases this information monthly, as an Accredited Official Statistic called the Overseas Trade in Goods Statistics (OTS), which is available via their dedicated website (www.uktradeinfo.com).
From this website, it is possible to build your own data tables based upon bespoke search criteria.
Classification codes (according to the Harmonised System) are available to assist you in accessing published trade statistics data in the UK Global Tariff. Goods moving to and from the UK are identified by commodity codes. These are publicly available from the UK Trade Tariff at https://www.gov.uk/trade-tariff. E-scooters are classified within commodity codes 87116010 and 87116090. However, these commodity codes will also include similar types of electric transportation such as e-bikes.
If you need help or support in constructing a table from the data on uktradeinfo, please contact uktradeinfo@hmrc.gov.uk
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