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The Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) uses figures collected by HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC) to produce summary statistics on UK imports and exports of food, feed and drink. Detailed HMRC figures are available on their trade statistics website .

Defra analyses include:

• a long term series showing the annual value of UK imports, exports and balance of trade for total food, feed and drink from 1936
• detailed figures on the value and volume of UK imports and exports of food, feed and drink by indigeneity, degree of processing and commodity type, from 1988
• a series showing the UK鈥檚 annual food production to supply ratio (commonly referred to as the 鈥渟elf-sufficiency鈥� ratio) from 1956
• 鈥楥ountry Focus Papers鈥�, giving an overview for China, India, Brazil, South Africa and Russia of economic performance, the export position of the UK and other countries and discussion of obstacles to trade. These are available from the .

See also Defra鈥檚 publication 鈥楢griculture in the United Kingdom鈥� for a summary of annual overseas trade in food, feed and drink.