Strategic Lens

Energy: United Arab Emirates and United Kingdom

First country

Second country

In 2025, United Arab Emirates sold USD 1.41 billion of mineral fuels and oils to United Kingdom and bought USD 18.7 million from it.

Constraints

  • BothFlows are one-sided: in 2025, United Arab Emirates sold USD 1.41 billion of mineral fuels and oils, against USD 18.7 million the other way.
  • BothTwo-way trade in mineral fuels and oils is 50 percent below its 2022 peak of USD 2.84 billion.

Sources: UN Comtrade (public preview API), annual goods trade, HS classification (retrieved 26 September 2026)

Last updated on 26 September 2026

The numbers

United Kingdom's imports from United Arab Emirates: mineral fuels and oils

USD billion · 2019 to 2025, calendar years, as reported by United Kingdom

2019: 0.97Low 0.41 / High 2.792025: 1.41

20190.97
20200.41
20210.98
20222.79
20231.92
20242.11
20251.41

Sources: UN Comtrade (public preview API), annual goods trade, HS classification (retrieved 26 September 2026)

Data retrieved 26 September 2026

United Kingdom's exports to United Arab Emirates: mineral fuels and oils

USD million · 2019 to 2025, calendar years, as reported by United Kingdom

2019: 45.4Low 8.1 / High 61.22025: 18.7

201945.4
202047.3
202161.2
202257.7
20238.1
202418.6
202518.7

Sources: UN Comtrade (public preview API), annual goods trade, HS classification (retrieved 26 September 2026)

Data retrieved 26 September 2026