Objective To establish a method for the determination of four benzotriazole UV absorbers(BZTs)in aqueous environment through high performance liquid chromatographic(HPLC).Methods Totally 35 ml of water sample was collected and adjusted the pH value to 6.The targets were enriched for 5 minutes by a sorbent column loaded 40 mg of Ce/MOF-801 and eluted by 1 ml acetonitrile further.An C18(4.6 mm×250 mm,5 μm)column was used for HPLC separation.The mobile phase consisted of acetonitrile-water(52∶48,V/V),the temperature of the column was held constant at 25 ℃,and the four benzotriazole UV absorbers were determined by UV detector with wavelength of 200 nm.External standard method was used to quantify.Results The linearity of the four benzotriazoles UV absorbers was good in the range of 0.02-1.00 μg/mL withr 0.999 2.The limits of detection were 0.057-0.117 μg/L and the lower limits of quantification were 0.171-0.351 μg/L.The average recoveries were 79.3%-107.2%and the precision was 0.51%-4.47%.The adsorbent could be reused at least 8 times and the enrichment factor could reach 56.6-73.9.Conclusion The method is sensitive,simple and rapid,and is applicable to the determination of trace amounts of the four UV absorbers in the aqueous environment.