The top commodity exported by value was medicinal and pharmaceutical products, accounting for £8.8 billion of US exports, followed by cars (£6.4 billion), mechanical power generators for intermediate sale (£5.2 billion), organic chemicals (£2.8 billion) and scientific instruments for sale as capital goods (£2.8 billion).
Machinery and transport equipment also accounted for the largest share of goods imported to the UK from the US in 2023, at £19.9 billion, followed by fuel (£18.7 billion) and chemicals (£7.8 billion).
Of the £60.4 billion of goods exported to the US in 2023, machinery and transport equipment accounted for the largest share, at £27.2 billion, ahead of chemicals (£14.2 billion) and materials (£4.2 billion).
Some £60.4 billion of goods were exported from the UK to the US in 2023, while £57.9 billion of goods were imported.
Gas was in second place (£6.6 billion), followed by intermediate mechanical power generators (£5.5 billion), medicinal and pharmaceutical products (£3.8 billion) and refined oil (£3.4 billion).
