Minerals: Imports
The question
To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, what estimate he has made of the value of critical mineral imports into the United Kingdom in each of the last five years.
Answered by Chris McDonald
As set out in the Technical Annex, “critical minerals” are imported into the UK in various forms:
- raw critical minerals, such as ores and concentrates
- chemicals, such as oxides, hydroxides and dioxides
- intermediate products, such as bars, rods, profiles and alloys
- waste and scrap, from which secondary supply can be salvaged and reintroduced to the production process via the circular economy
Under this definition, and according to HMRC’s Import data by preference, the UK imported the following values of critical minerals:
2022: £13.0 billion
2023: £11.3 billion
2024: £10.4 billion
2025: £11.3 billion
Due to changes in post-EU Exit customs, comparable trade data is only available from 1st January 2022.
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