Launch evening for the UK Import Market Intelligence Report: seven years of import data, read commercially. Drinks, data, and key findings!

Seven years of Britain's import data, one room in Stirling, and the first public outing of Volume I.

On Thursday 27 August, Forth Trading Intelligence launches the UK Import Market Intelligence Report, Volume I (2019–2025). Thirty-two analytical sections, thirty-nine figures, a hundred and forty-five pages — built from HMRC Overseas Trade Statistics, CEPII BACI and UN Comtrade, and written to read customs data commercially rather than descriptively.

Volume I exists to answer the questions an importer actually has:

Which parts of Britain's import trade are genuinely open to a new entrant, and which are held by two or three suppliers who won't be moved?

How much of what Britain buys "from" the Netherlands and Belgium was made somewhere else entirely — and what does that do to your costing?

Where is India actually landing after CETA, and how much of it reaches us through a third country rather than direct?

What does a £723bn headline conceal about the direction of underlying demand?

On the night we'll take the room through how the report was built, where the data fights back, and the findings that changed our own minds — then open the floor. Bring the awkward question. The evening is better for it.

Running order

6:00pm — Doors, drinks

6:30pm — Presentation Yelden Sarybay

6:50pm — Questions, and disagreement

7:10pm — Drinks and conversation

8:00pm — Close

Who this is for

Importers and buyers, freight and customs people, economic development and trade policy folk, journalists, and anyone in Stirling who likes an evening where the slides have numbers on them. No prior knowledge of trade statistics assumed — and no jargon that isn't explained.

Tickets are free but capacity is limited, so please register. Everyone who attends leaves with the executive summary in print, and can order Volume I at £200+VAT — the price moves to £350+VAT on 1 October.

About Forth Trading Intelligence

Forth Import Export Ltd is a Stirling-based trade intelligence firm. We build commercial analysis from customs and mirror-trade data — HMRC Overseas Trade Statistics, CEPII BACI, UN Comtrade — for firms deciding what to buy, from where, and through whom.

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