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Goods Exports and Imports February 2023

Exports in February 2023 were over €16 billion

Online ISSN: 2009-5155

CSO statistical publication, 18 April 2023, 11am

Key Findings

Unadjusted goods exports were €16.5 billion in February 2023, an increase of €660 million compared with February last year.
Unadjusted goods imports were €10 billion, which was more than €900 million higher than imports in February 2022.
Seasonally adjusted goods exports were €17.3 billion in February 2023, an increase of €1.6 billion compared with January 2023.
Seasonally adjusted goods imports were €11.9 billion in February 2023.
Imports from Great Britain were €1.9 billion in February 2023, while exports to Great Britain were €1.3 billion.

Statistician's Comment

The Central Statistics Office (CSO) has today (18 April 2023) released Goods Exports and Imports February 2023.

Commenting on the release, Orla McCarthy, Senior Statistician in the International Trade in Goods Division said: “In February 2023, Ireland’s unadjusted exports of goods increased by €660 million to €16.5 billion compared with February 2022. When seasonally adjusted, exports of goods rose by €1.6 billion compared with January 2023.

The unadjusted imports for February 2023 were valued at €10 billion, up €900 million on February 2022. Seasonally adjusted imports were €11.9 billion in February 2023.

Comparing the first two months of 2023 with the same period in 2022, exports of goods were virtually unchanged, and the value of imports increased by 14%. Exports for January and February 2023 were almost €32 billion.

Imports from Great Britain grew by 27% to €1.9 billion in February 2023 compared with February 2022, and the largest increases were in the imports of Chemicals & Related products and Mineral Fuels, Lubricants & Related Products.

Exports to Great Britain rose by 24% to more than €1.2 billion in February 2023 from February 2022.”

Headline Table

Table A Goods Exports and Imports seasonally adjusted			€million
	Exports	Imports	Surplus
January 2023	15,662	12,077	3,585
February 2023	17,257	11,915	5,342
Value change	1,595	-162	1,757
% change	10.2	-1.3	49.0

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Seasonally adjusted goods trade exports increased by €1.6 billion in February 2023

Seasonally adjusted goods exports rose by €1,595 million (+10%) to €17,257 million in February 2023 compared with January 2023, according to preliminary figures.

Seasonally adjusted goods imports decreased by €162 million (-1%) to €11,915 million leading to an increase of €1,757 million (+49%) in the seasonally adjusted trade surplus to €5,342 million in February 2023 compared with January 2023 (See Table 2). Seasonal adjustment compares month-to-month data by removing fluctuations that may occur due to seasonal patterns in trade.

Table 1 Goods Exports and Imports summary analysis

Table 1 Goods Exports and Imports summary analysis
Period		€million			Base year 2010=100
		Value¹			Volume index²		Unit value index²		Terms of trade³
		Exports	Imports	Trade surplus	Exports	Imports	Exports	Imports	Terms of trade³
2018		140,645	91,991	48,654	156.2	189.2	99.1	99.5	99.6
2019		152,534	91,019	61,515	168.5	192.7	99.5	96.6	103.0
2020		162,131	87,065	75,066	188.6	194.4	94.4	91.7	103.0
2021		165,715	103,801	61,914	191.3	214.5	95.0	98.6	96.4
2022		208,640	141,302	67,338	..	..	..	..	..

2021	January	13,329	6,441	6,888	198.6	171.2	88.6	92.7	95.5
	February	12,315	6,647	5,669	171.5	173.7	94.8	94.3	100.5
	March	14,708	9,219	5,489	216.1	226.8	89.8	100.2	89.6
	April	12,289	8,249	4,040	176.8	206.3	91.7	98.5	93.1
	May	13,548	8,759	4,789	193.2	229.2	92.5	94.2	98.3
	June	14,749	9,889	4,860	214.7	243.4	90.7	100.1	90.6
	July	13,203	7,796	5,406	178.3	197.1	97.7	97.5	100.3
	August	13,167	7,803	5,364	177.6	196.6	97.9	98.0	99.8
	September	14,772	8,466	6,306	198.2	204.0	98.4	102.3	96.2
	October	14,958	8,994	5,964	191.8	220.6	102.9	100.5	102.5
	November	15,624	10,410	5,214	208.2	241.5	98.0	102.7	95.4
	December	13,054	11,129	1,925	175.6	261.9	97.2	101.6	95.6

2022⁴	January	16,067	9,365	6,703	224.0	236.1	94.7	97.7	96.9
	February	15,869	9,098	6,771	218.8	237.6	95.7	94.4	101.4
	March	20,267	12,032	8,235	290.6	288.9	92.3	102.8	89.8
	April	17,208	11,308	5,901	239.7	269.6	94.7	103.4	91.7
	May	17,915	13,284	4,630	246.9	310.5	96.2	104.5	92.1
	June	17,745	12,832	4,912	246.3	306.6	95.1	103.2	92.2
	July	14,908	10,702	4,206	204.8	248.8	95.7	106.2	90.1
	August	19,387	12,474	6,913	260.7	285.2	98.2	107.8	91.1
	September	19,594	13,136	6,458	265.6	295.7	97.4	109.5	88.9
	October	17,570	12,476	5,094	232.2	296.6	99.9	103.7	96.3
	November	16,889	12,040	4,849	222.3	274.4	100.2	108.2	92.6
	December	15,221	12,555	2,666	193.6	260.2	100.8	107.5	93.7

2023⁴	January	15,356	11,070	4,286	..	..	..	..	..
	February	16,529	10,022	6,507	..	..	..	..	..
¹Tradestatistics revised since 2000, see background notes.
² Monthly data have been rescaled to make their average equal to the annual.
³ Export unit value index divided by import unit value index.
⁴ Revised. February 2023 is based on current Intrastat response levels. See background notes.
.. Indices not yet available.

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Table 2 Goods Exports and Imports seasonally adjusted series

Table B Share of Goods Exports and Imports by region									€million
Unadjusted		February 2022 - 2023				January - February 2022 - 2023
Unadjusted		2022	2023	Value change	% change	2022	2023	Value change	% change
Exports
	Total	15,869	16,529	660	4	31,936	31,885	-51	0
	Great Britain	1,024	1,267	243	24	2,430	2,603	173	7
	Northern Ireland	363	364	1	0	706	715	10	1
	EU27	6,308	7,352	1,045	17	12,585	14,301	1,716	14
	USA	4,825	4,054	-772	-16	10,070	7,873	-2,197	-22
	Rest of World	3,349	3,492	143	4	6,146	6,393	247	4

Imports
	Total	9,098	10,022	924	10	18,463	21,092	2,629	14
	Great Britain	1,499	1,899	400	27	3,308	4,222	913	28
	Northern Ireland	426	387	-38	-9	748	820	72	10
	EU27	2,833	3,790	957	34	5,489	6,754	1,266	23
	USA	1,434	1,342	-93	-6	2,751	2,971	221	8
	Rest of World	2,906	2,603	-302	-10	6,167	6,325	158	3

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Exports and imports by region

The (unadjusted) value of goods exports grew by €660 million (+4%) to €16,529 million in February 2023 compared with February 2022. The value of goods exports for the period January to February 2023 fell by €51 million (-0.2%) to €31,885 million, when compared with the same period of 2022.

The (unadjusted) value of goods imports rose by €924 million (+10%) to €10,022 million in February 2023 compared with February 2022. The value of goods imports for the first two months of 2023 increased by €2,629 million (+14%) to €21,092 million, when compared with the same period of 2022.

Exports to Great Britain were €1,267 million, which was 8% of total exports in February 2023. The products which accounted for the largest share of exports were Chemicals & Related Products at €460 million and Food & Live Animals with €295 million.

Imports from Great Britain in February 2023 were €1,899 million, which was 19% of the total value of imports. Imports of Chemicals & Related Products accounted for €611 million, and imports of Mineral Fuels Lubricants & Related Products were valued at €508 million (See Table 5).

The EU accounted for €7,352 million (44%) of total goods exports in February 2023, of which €2,149 million went to Germany, €1,598 million went to Belgium and €1,212 million went to the Netherlands.

The USA was the main non-EU destination accounting for €4,054 million (25%) of total exports in February 2023 (See Table 4).

X-axis label	EU 27	Rest of World	UK	US
Aug 2021	4.853	2.786	1.298	4.229
Sep 2021	5.856	2.794	1.737	4.384
Oct 2021	5.129	2.657	1.408	5.764
Nov 2021	5.787	2.764	2.067	5.006
Dec 2021	4.686	2.939	1.481	3.947
Jan 2022	6.277	2.797	1.748	5.245
Feb 2022	6.308	3.349	1.387	4.825
Mar 2022	7.033	4.002	1.831	7.401
Apr 2022	6.424	3.361	1.934	5.49
May 2022	6.301	4.395	1.828	5.39
Jun 2022	6.383	3.869	2.407	5.087
Jul 2022	6.257	3.338	1.567	3.746
Aug 2022	8.554	3.624	1.923	5.286
Sep 2022	7.767	4.085	1.837	5.904
Oct 2022	6.613	3.591	2.059	5.307
Nov 2022	6.655	3.188	2.014	5.033
Dec 2022	5.931	3.213	1.573	4.504
Jan2023	6.949	2.9	1.688	3.819
Feb 2023	7.352	3.492	1.631	4.054

X-axis label	EU 27	Rest of World	UK	US
Aug 2021	2.14427927020579	2.4721595401711	1.60572716821421	1.58098671866229
Sep 2021	2.54651358962204	2.54122225308268	1.73850218878597	1.63970936335317
Oct 2021	2.68628975764719	2.78322891440016	1.93410238521967	1.5903038632994
Nov 2021	3.50445688428574	3.33734020639254	1.97395856867565	1.59372048411895
Dec 2021	3.38359346140656	3.254661617833	2.18351002497407	2.30676084384214
Jan 2022	2.65591167660714	3.2611086241722	2.13094575006286	1.31652224622383
Feb 2022	2.83272443009999	2.90574911702911	1.92517164588207	1.43438147581768
Mar 2022	3.18108974164591	4.14074180141705	2.37901821288175	2.33093602471201
Apr 2022	3.54191102415513	3.47566700004536	2.41570873038642	1.87450129891659
May 2022	3.65727972300909	5.04974529734677	2.38957783844122	2.18781775376064
Jun 2022	3.71708248762264	4.64475699263231	2.59122572440475	1.87929043009657
Jul 2022	3.14218434843735	3.97767827704352	2.28031383130403	1.30211393590302
Aug 2022	3.23407630733302	4.42266596614623	2.70794026711361	2.10920545319726
Sep 2022	4.57378719329566	3.63823813210219	2.4923743805914	2.43188414696008
Oct 2022	4.08301124213787	3.43283333036278	3.16068356674586	1.79931983564256
Nov 2022	3.95768941800216	3.82477677873277	2.48327375726989	1.77451951799208
Dec 2022	4.45871550114048	3.90206660680212	2.34238094894418	1.85151532102646
Jan2023	2.96448285140116	3.72127398856188	2.75431154855362	1.6296088414914
Feb 2023	3.78977798967392	2.60344686916723	2.28696508984444	1.34179693532315

Exports by product

Exports of Medical & Pharmaceutical Products declined by €190 million (-3%) to €5,699 million in February 2023 compared with February 2022. This represented 34% of total exports.

Exports of Organic Chemicals grew by €192 million (+6%) to €3,545 million.

Exports of Electrical Machinery, Apparatus & Appliances fell by €387 million (-34%) to €758 million.

Exports of Food & Live Animals rose by €149 million (+16%) to €1,071 million in February 2023 compared with February 2022 (See Table 3).

Imports by product

Imports of Organic Chemicals were up by €409 million (+49%) to €1,238 million in February 2023 compared with February 2022.

Imports of Machinery Specialised for Particular Industries expanded by €128 million (+73%) to €304 million.

Imports of Mineral Fuels, Lubricants & Related Products increased by €76 million (+10%) to €815 million.

Imports of Electrical Machinery, Apparatus & Appliances were down by €93 million (-14%) to €592 million.

The value of goods imports for February 2023 excluding SITC 79 (Other Transport Equipment, Including Aircraft) grew by €919 million (+12%) to €8,876 million, compared with the corresponding February 2022 figure of €7,956 million (See Table 3).

Table 3 Goods Exports and Imports classified by commodity

Table 3 Goods Exports and Imports classified by commodity¹										€million
SITC (Rev 4)			Exports				Imports
			Exports				Imports
			Feb	Feb	Jan-Feb	Jan-Feb	Feb	Feb	Jan-Feb	Jan-Feb
			2022	2023	2022	2023	2022	2023	2022	2023
0	Food and live animals		922	1,071	1,780	2,077	612	699	1,351	1,483
	00	Live animals other than animals of Division 03	43	39	64	70	9	21	21	31
	01	Meat and meat preparations	345	358	672	706	76	79	153	160
	02	Dairy products and birds' eggs	176	276	345	506	76	97	171	188
	03	Fish, crustaceans, molluscs and preparations thereof	48	43	82	74	20	21	43	43
	04	Cereals and cereal preparations	51	64	100	128	93	100	227	233
	05	Vegetables and fruit	25	26	53	54	102	110	210	226
	06	Sugars, sugar preparations and honey	10	11	18	23	33	34	65	86
	07	Coffee, tea, cocoa, spices and manufactures thereof	37	47	65	94	56	59	108	118
	08	Feeding stuff for animals (excluding unmilled cereals)	38	44	78	95	93	103	239	247
	09	Miscellaneous edible products and preparations	149	163	301	327	56	76	112	151
1	Beverages and tobacco		152	135	316	279	72	79	137	152
	11	Beverages	152	135	316	279	68	75	129	147
	12	Tobacco and tobacco manufactures	0	0	0	0	4	4	8	6
2	Crude materials, inedible, except fuels		141	146	322	293	94	92	183	178
	21	Hides, skins and furskins, raw	7	5	14	12	0	0	0	0
	22	Oil seeds and oleaginous fruits	0	0	3	0	2	2	4	7
	23	Crude rubber (including synthetic and reclaimed)	5	4	9	7	1	2	2	4
	24	Cork and wood	25	19	47	39	22	23	42	44
	25	Pulp and waste paper	7	5	15	11	2	5	6	11
	26	Textile fibres and their wastes	12	11	22	21	1	1	2	2
	27	Crude fertilisers and minerals (excluding coal, petroleum and precious stones)	11	8	21	17	17	19	35	34
	28	Metalliferous ores and metal scrap	61	83	168	161	20	12	39	24
	29	Crude animal and vegetable materials nes	13	12	24	27	29	29	52	52
3	Mineral fuels, lubricants and related materials		94	96	247	166	739	815	1,637	2,385
	32	Coal, coke and briquettes	8	10	16	20	5	52	58	107
	33	Petroleum, petroleum products and related materials	62	75	178	126	409	266	784	776
	34	Gas, natural and manufactured	1	0	1	0	307	466	757	1,433
	35	Electric current	24	11	52	19	19	32	38	70
4	Animal and vegetable oils, fats and waxes		12	14	22	27	38	38	73	80
	41	Animal oils and fats	9	11	17	20	3	3	7	6
	42	Fixed vegetable fats and oils	2	2	3	5	31	33	59	68
	43	Animal or vegetable fats and oils, processed; waxes	1	1	1	1	4	2	8	6
5	Chemicals and related products		10,242	11,252	20,859	21,446	2,220	2,935	4,519	6,132
	51	Organic chemicals	3,354	3,545	5,991	6,167	829	1,238	1,823	2,723
	52	Inorganic chemicals	106	576	131	669	33	327	62	529
	53	Dyeing, tanning and colouring materials	10	14	19	27	26	25	50	49
	54	Medical and pharmaceutical products	5,889	5,699	12,997	11,731	864	896	1,589	1,867
	55	Essential oils; perfume materials; toilet and cleansing preparations	608	854	1,189	1,693	111	124	219	259
	56	Fertilisers (other than those of Division 27)	2	1	3	2	91	47	197	114
	57	Plastics in primary forms	32	28	62	61	105	91	211	191
	58	Plastics in non-primary forms	72	82	134	185	79	82	165	166
	59	Chemical materials and products nes	170	451	333	912	82	104	203	234
6	Manufactured goods classified chiefly by material		253	254	509	502	702	652	1,443	1,337
	61	Leather; leather manufactures nes; dressed furskins	1	1	3	2	2	2	5	3
	62	Rubber manufactures nes	27	17	59	37	41	43	85	84
	63	Cork and wood manufactures (excluding furniture)	38	38	76	77	34	36	73	69
	64	Paper, paperboard and articles thereof	19	18	37	36	94	95	194	203
	65	Textile yarn, fabrics, made-up articles and related products	13	14	24	28	62	44	122	92
	66	Non-metallic mineral manufactures nes	47	53	99	103	79	73	162	144
	67	Iron and steel	19	17	36	33	104	100	227	195
	68	Non-ferrous metals	16	12	30	24	123	112	259	253
	69	Manufactures of metals nes	73	85	145	163	162	146	317	295
7	Machinery and transport equipment		2,288	1,720	4,389	3,414	3,405	3,493	6,633	6,855
	71	Power generating machinery and equipment	192	166	275	280	220	177	390	385
	72	Machinery specialised for particular industries	53	94	110	161	176	304	352	704
	73	Metalworking machinery	2	3	5	6	11	15	24	32
	74	General industrial machinery and equipment nes and parts nes	144	186	280	356	217	227	438	469
	75	Office machines and automatic data processing machines (including computers)	379	346	810	782	361	317	780	694
	76	Telecommunications and sound equipment	98	78	176	158	193	182	424	447
	77	Electrical machinery, apparatus and appliances nes and parts	1,145	758	2,253	1,429	685	592	1,396	1,315
	78	Road vehicles (including air-cushion vehicles)	41	39	79	84	401	534	875	1,090
	79	Other transport equipment (including aircraft)	234	49	403	159	1,142	1,146	1,954	1,719
8	Miscellaneous manufactured articles		1,615	1,726	3,225	3,418	964	1,024	2,000	2,111
	81	Prefab buildings; plumbing and electrical fixtures and fittings	11	11	21	24	37	33	80	70
	82	Furniture and parts thereof; bedding, cushions etc	16	17	34	33	73	60	154	115
	83	Travel goods, handbags and similar containers	3	2	5	5	15	17	30	35
	84	Articles of apparel; clothing accessories	29	25	61	48	197	189	409	393
	85	Footwear	3	3	6	6	43	48	81	99
	87	Professional, scientific and controlling apparatus nes	675	770	1,363	1,506	179	220	361	499
	88	Photographic apparatus; optical goods; watches and clocks	131	137	265	276	46	49	95	98
	89	Miscellaneous manufactured articles nes	747	760	1,471	1,520	374	406	790	802
9	Commodities and transactions not classified elsewhere		18	35	38	98	7	5	17	11
Unclassified estimates²			132	81	228	164	245	190	469	367

Total			15,869	16,529	31,936	31,885	9,098	10,022	18,463	21,092
¹ Trade statistics revised since 2000. February 2023 is based on current Intrastat response levels. See background notes.
² Estimates for which a commodity classification is not available.

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Table 4 Goods Exports and Imports classified by country

Table 4 Goods Exports and Imports classified by country¹								€million
Country	Exports				Imports
	Aug	Aug	Jan-Aug	Jan-Aug	Aug	Aug	Jan-Aug	Jan-Aug
	2023	2024	2023	2024	2023	2024	2023	2024
Austria	41	31	380	342	37	24	887	394
Belgium	1,867	1,466	12,981	10,582	218	169	1,677	1,831
Bulgaria	14	14	107	105	5	10	51	55
Croatia	7	21	59	106	1	2	21	20
Cyprus	6	7	52	64	1	0	6	6
Czech Republic	75	34	772	369	66	131	613	707
Denmark	54	48	433	385	52	44	491	555
Estonia	2	2	24	19	1	1	10	11
Finland	23	14	202	132	16	14	143	139
France	585	510	4,804	3,940	1,030	837	11,255	9,888
Germany	1,226	1,522	13,399	14,104	627	1,481	6,020	6,782
Greece	29	34	402	349	6	23	99	126
Hungary	32	47	391	432	48	54	531	607
Italy	332	349	4,300	4,738	170	197	1,739	1,922
Latvia	6	8	57	43	6	5	51	45
Lithuania	7	8	71	60	10	10	187	106
Luxembourg	8	8	66	64	6	5	40	40
Malta	4	4	37	48	1	2	9	8
Netherlands	1,320	1,378	10,386	13,607	494	480	3,361	4,804
Poland	145	102	1,134	1,107	103	125	793	898
Portugal	47	32	1,026	1,045	33	46	323	280
Romania	29	31	345	270	10	10	94	124
Slovakia	11	12	100	132	17	14	158	170
Slovenia	5	7	77	100	4	4	41	34
Spain	179	287	1,968	2,441	152	175	2,223	1,648
Sweden	77	84	675	788	41	50	501	527
EU Country not specified²	44	49	285	339	27	44	232	274
Total EU27³	6,177	6,110	54,534	55,712	3,185	3,957	31,556	32,000
Euro-Zone⁴	5,704	5,701	50,392	51,916	2,832	3,489	28,248	28,252

Great Britain	1,283	1,209	12,575	10,772	1,833	1,493	14,978	11,386
Northern Ireland	412	406	3,212	3,353	455	442	3,432	3,496
Total UK	1,694	1,615	15,788	14,126	2,289	1,935	18,410	14,882

Australia	72	77	585	712	7	6	60	56
Brazil	54	23	269	552	37	25	217	213
Canada	267	74	2,973	2,599	64	59	540	640
China⁵	779	786	6,267	6,843	896	908	6,006	7,033
India	39	32	347	317	105	72	633	635
Japan	384	204	2,543	2,326	178	208	1,951	1,564
Malaysia	102	183	893	1,689	53	51	432	367
Mexico	262	266	1,764	2,355	88	146	1,479	891
Norway	27	20	217	193	47	35	467	350
Russia	27	56	315	457	25	1	57	30
Saudi Arabia	60	51	605	618	1	20	64	34
Singapore	56	54	503	578	50	132	694	545
South Africa	21	53	261	224	33	16	231	144
South Korea	51	55	551	506	127	133	937	1,125
Switzerland	243	350	2,590	2,573	468	129	5,639	1,949
Taiwan	50	37	318	266	92	287	729	1,440
Thailand	20	39	198	184	82	89	575	626
Turkey	102	55	571	422	85	105	761	834
USA	5,119	6,660	36,725	45,570	1,631	1,961	13,723	15,138
Other countries	492	486	3,928	4,168	714	770	5,831	6,278
Country unknown⁶	8	28	83	155	49	116	345	646
Total Non-EU (excl UK)	8,235	9,590	62,507	73,307	4,833	5,271	41,373	40,538

Total	16,106	17,315	132,828	143,145	10,307	11,163	91,339	87,420
¹ Trade statistics revised since 2000. August 2024 is based on current Intrastat response levels. See background notes.
² Includes estimates for traders below the Intrastat threshold and transactions where the EU country was not specified.
³ From February 2020 the United Kingdom exited the EU, therefore the EU total is made up of the 27 remaining member states. For data comparability over time the EU are shown separately for both the current and prior periods.
⁴ Euro-zone members from January 2015: Austria, Belgium, Germany, Spain, Finland, France, Luxembourg, Greece, Ireland, Italy, the Netherlands, Portugal, Slovenia, Malta, Cyprus, Slovakia, Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania. On January 1st 2023, Croatia joined the Eurozone. The 2022 data for the Eurozone is made up of 19 Eurozone members, and for 2023 is made up of the 20 Eurozone members.
⁵ China includes Hong Kong and Macao.
⁶ Trade for which the country of origin or country of final destination is unknown.

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Table 5 Goods Exports and Imports classified by commodity and principal countries

Table 5 Goods Exports and Imports classified by commodity and principal countries¹									€million
		Exports				Imports
Country by Section level of SITC		Feb	Feb	Jan-Feb	Jan-Feb	Feb	Feb	Jan-Feb	Jan-Feb
		2022	2023	2022	2023	2022	2023	2022	2023
Great Britain		1,024	1,267	2,430	2,603	1,499	1,899	3,308	4,222
0	Food and live animals	285	295	541	598	153	157	310	300
1	Beverages and tobacco	16	20	29	39	16	15	30	27
2	Crude materials, inedible, except fuels	39	30	78	70	10	9	19	17
3	Mineral fuels, lubricants and related materials	51	48	149	67	419	508	1,021	1,674
4	Animal and vegetable oils, fats and waxes	1	2	3	3	5	5	9	10
5	Chemicals and related products	240	460	824	973	222	611	643	987
6	Manufactured goods classified chiefly by material	83	91	165	178	180	187	350	381
7	Machinery and transport equipment	202	188	413	417	321	266	599	538
8	Miscellaneous manufactured articles	105	132	225	255	171	141	324	286
9	Commodities and transactions not classified elsewhere	1	1	2	3	2	1	4	2
Northern Ireland		363	364	706	715	426	387	748	820
0	Food and live animals	105	127	208	245	95	110	206	221
1	Beverages and tobacco	6	9	14	21	18	21	33	43
2	Crude materials, inedible, except fuels	14	10	26	22	12	13	23	25
3	Mineral fuels, lubricants and related materials	20	17	46	31	31	41	61	78
4	Animal and vegetable oils, fats and waxes	1	2	3	4	5	5	11	11
5	Chemicals and related products	79	74	143	155	144	62	175	172
6	Manufactured goods classified chiefly by material	49	43	94	84	45	55	91	101
7	Machinery and transport equipment	39	35	73	63	24	26	45	59
8	Miscellaneous manufactured articles	39	30	79	60	19	18	37	37
9	Commodities and transactions not classified elsewhere	10	16	20	32	34	37	67	73
EU 27²		6,308	7,352	12,585	14,301	2,833	3,790	5,489	6,754
0	Food and live animals	276	361	530	680	237	301	491	620
1	Beverages and tobacco	37	45	73	82	26	28	50	53
2	Crude materials, inedible, except fuels	53	62	134	107	37	39	68	67
3	Mineral fuels, lubricants and related materials	22	30	24	51	40	51	99	119
4	Animal and vegetable oils, fats and waxes	8	9	14	18	20	20	38	45
5	Chemicals and related products	4,610	5,665	9,345	10,927	599	1,173	1,278	2,090
6	Manufactured goods classified chiefly by material	80	78	155	161	224	208	413	424
7	Machinery and transport equipment	552	498	1,080	1,032	1,196	1,575	2,190	2,573
8	Miscellaneous manufactured articles	544	534	1,015	1,101	241	240	454	465
9	Commodities and transactions not classified elsewhere	126	70	214	142	214	155	409	299
USA		4,825	4,054	10,070	7,873	1,434	1,342	2,751	2,971
0	Food and live animals	37	68	68	132	32	18	69	57
1	Beverages and tobacco	65	38	145	90	2	2	4	4
2	Crude materials, inedible, except fuels	3	2	5	5	5	11	12	17
3	Mineral fuels, lubricants and related materials	0	0	0	0	161	69	210	180
4	Animal and vegetable oils, fats and waxes	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
5	Chemicals and related products	3,761	3,046	7,910	5,961	404	440	771	870
6	Manufactured goods classified chiefly by material	22	19	53	35	35	44	74	88
7	Machinery and transport equipment	377	227	755	400	687	592	1,316	1,427
8	Miscellaneous manufactured articles	559	653	1,132	1,249	107	164	293	325
9	Commodities and transactions not classified elsewhere	0	1	2	2	1	1	2	2
China³		1,156	786	2,123	1,425	708	604	1,659	1,377
0	Food and live animals	42	41	85	81	8	7	19	16
1	Beverages and tobacco	1	1	2	1	0	0	0	0
2	Crude materials, inedible, except fuels	5	5	11	11	4	3	11	7
3	Mineral fuels, lubricants and related materials	-	-	-	-	0	34	0	45
4	Animal and vegetable oils, fats and waxes	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
5	Chemicals and related products	192	155	295	257	103	83	254	204
6	Manufactured goods classified chiefly by material	3	4	5	8	87	62	190	128
7	Machinery and transport equipment	779	450	1,478	827	316	256	764	649
8	Miscellaneous manufactured articles	133	132	245	240	189	159	420	328
9	Commodities and transactions not classified elsewhere	-	-	0	0	0	0	0	0
Rest of World		2,194	2,706	4,023	4,968	2,198	1,999	4,508	4,948
0	Food and live animals	178	179	348	341	87	105	256	269
1	Beverages and tobacco	26	21	53	46	9	12	20	25
2	Crude materials, inedible, except fuels	26	36	67	80	25	18	51	46
3	Mineral fuels, lubricants and related materials	1	1	28	18	88	112	246	290
4	Animal and vegetable oils, fats and waxes	1	1	2	1	8	7	15	13
5	Chemicals and related products	1,359	1,853	2,342	3,174	748	567	1,398	1,808
6	Manufactured goods classified chiefly by material	16	20	37	37	131	98	326	216
7	Machinery and transport equipment	339	323	590	675	862	779	1,719	1,609
8	Miscellaneous manufactured articles	235	245	529	513	237	301	472	671
9	Commodities and transactions not classified elsewhere	13	27	27	83	2	0	5	1

Total		15,869	16,529	31,936	31,885	9,098	10,022	18,463	21,092
¹ Trade statistics revised since 2000. February 2023 is based on current Intrastat response levels. See background notes.
² Includes estimates for traders below the Intrastat threshold and transactions where the EU country was not specified.
³ China includes Hong Kong and Macao.

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Table 6 Goods Exports by industrial origin and area of destination

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Table 2 Goods Exports and Imports seasonally adjusted¹series
Period		€million			Base year 2010=100
		Value			Volume index
		Exports	Imports	Trade surplus	Exports	Imports
2021	January	14,001	7,183	6,818	188.6	181.3
	February	12,898	7,712	5,186	176.1	185.7
	March	13,240	8,372	4,868	184.9	205.1
	April	12,074	8,330	3,744	179.4	212.6
	May	13,862	8,883	4,979	194.7	236.6
	June	13,815	9,042	4,773	207.1	230.9
	July	13,490	8,217	5,273	185.4	201.6
	August	13,857	8,710	5,147	189.3	220.0
	September	14,273	8,660	5,613	196.0	216.2
	October	15,629	8,774	6,855	199.8	218.1
	November	14,489	9,460	5,030	206.4	237.2
	December	13,815	9,713	4,101	192.0	243.1

2022	January	16,656	10,792	5,864	222.3	254.2
	February	16,598	10,633	5,965	231.9	257.8
	March	18,179	10,865	7,314	246.3	267.0
	April	17,594	11,871	5,723	254.8	272.8
	May	17,738	12,514	5,225	240.2	289.5
	June	16,686	11,718	4,968	237.4	285.7
	July	15,743	11,935	3,808	219.5	272.2
	August	19,622	13,040	6,583	265.2	297.6
	September	18,815	13,089	5,726	258.7	307.7
	October	18,140	12,311	5,829	240.3	297.2
	November	15,811	11,147	4,664	208.6	263.6
	December	16,724	11,609	5,115	221.6	253.0

2023	January	15,662	12,077	3,585	..	..
	February	17,257	11,915	5,342	..	..
¹ Seasonally adjusted data has been revised from January 2010 onwards using X-13-ARIMA methodology, implemented in JDEMETRA+. Previously X-11 methodology was used.
.. Indices not yet available.

Goods Exports and Imports February 2023