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British retail gross sales unexpectedly rose 0.4% in March
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British retail gross sales unexpectedly rose 0.4% in March

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By Tycoon Herald 4 Min Read Published April 25, 2025
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British retail gross sales unexpectedly rose 0.4 per cent in March, earlier than Donald Trump introduced sweeping tariffs on US buying and selling companions, with sunny climate serving to gross sales in clothes and outside outlets.

Friday’s month-to-month knowledge from the Workplace for Nationwide Statistics confirmed that the amount of products purchased exceeded expectations of economists polled by Reuters, who had predicted a 0.4 per cent contraction.

Clothes and outside retailers reported that good climate boosted gross sales, although the will increase have been partially offset by falls in grocery store gross sales.

The determine adopted a 0.7 per cent enhance in February and a 1.4 per cent rise in January.

Nonetheless, the newest retail gross sales knowledge doesn’t take within the influence from Trump’s tariff shock in April and the rise in enterprise and family prices taking impact this month.

Separate figures printed on Friday by analysis firm GfK confirmed that shopper confidence fell 4 factors to minus 23 this month, the bottom stage for nicely over a 12 months.

Earlier within the week, the S&P International PMI indices confirmed that US tariffs and rising prices had additionally hit enterprise morale.

“Retail sales were ticking along just fine before President Trump’s tariffs hit consumers’ confidence,” mentioned Rob Wooden, economist on the consultancy Pantheon Macroeconomics.

British retail gross sales unexpectedly rose 0.4% in March

Alex Kerr, economist on the consultancy Capital Economics, mentioned the retail gross sales determine would add 0.1 per cent factors to GDP within the first three months of the 12 months.

“But while today’s retail sales data confirmed that households spent a bit more freely than expected in Q1, that may not last,” he added. “The drop in consumer confidence in April after the US tariff chaos suggests that households may start to spend more cautiously in the coming months.”

The UK financial system carried out higher than anticipated initially of the 12 months, with a 0.5 per cent rise in GDP in February pointing to sooner progress throughout the primary quarter than the 0.25 per cent forecast by the Financial institution of England.

The Met Workplace reported that the UK had its third-sunniest March on file, serving to gross sales.

Gross sales in non-food shops, together with shops, clothes and family shops, rose by 1.7 per cent over the month, pushing them to the best stage since March 2022.

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Ann Kiernan illustration of a rollercoaster graph, with a mini cooper car filled with British produce

Within the three months to March, a much less risky measure of spending, gross sales have been up 1.6 per cent in contrast with the earlier three months, the quickest tempo since mid-2021.

Nonetheless the info pertains to the interval earlier than the US president introduced steep “reciprocal” tariffs on dozens of America’s buying and selling companions in early April, and a ten per cent responsibility on the UK, in a transfer that convulsed world markets.

The prices of many utilities for UK shoppers additionally rose in April, with highway and stamp responsibility taxes additionally rising.

“We had been upbeat about UK consumer prospects before the US lurch to tariffs,” mentioned Wooden. “Now the question is how much rising uncertainty will hit consumers.”

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