Economy Statistical Yearbook of Ireland 2015

Introduction - Trade

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This chapter contains information on Ireland’s Goods Exports and Imports statistics which provide data on the movement of goods between countries. The statistics are a combination of Customs-based non-EU trade statistics and data from the Intrastat survey of Irish traders involved in trade with other EU member states.

In May 2015, significant revisions were incorporated into International Trade in Goods statistics back to 2000. The most significant revision was due to recording trade in aircraft (commodity group SITC 79 - Other transport equipment, including aircraft) on a "transfer of economic ownership" basis. The technical note in the appendix gives more detail on the revised trade data.

Goods Exports and Imports summary analysis

15.1 Goods Exports and Imports summary analysis

Year	Value			Volume index
	Value			(base year 1990=100)
			Trade
	Exports	Imports	surplus	Exports	Imports
	€m	€m	€m

1974	1,440	2,065	-625	25.2	44.2
1975	1,838	2,164	-326	27.2	38.3
1976	2,361	2,969	-608	28.2	44.2
1977	3,197	3,925	-727	33.2	49.9
1978	3,762	4,715	-952	36.7	57.1
1979	4,416	6,130	-1,714	39.6	65.5
1980	5,184	6,883	-1,699	42.7	62.3
1981	6,066	8,353	-2,287	43.0	63.7
1982	7,227	8,655	-1,428	46.1	61.5
1983	8,817	9,354	-537	51.7	63.5
1984	11,297	11,316	-19	61.2	70.0
1985	12,371	11,971	400	65.2	72.3
1986	11,903	10,947	956	67.6	74.4
1987	13,616	11,625	1,991	77.4	79.1
1988	15,624	12,970	2,654	82.9	82.8
1989	18,534	15,598	2,937	92.2	93.6
1990	18,204	15,832	2,372	100.0	100.0
1991	19,070	16,317	2,753	105.6	100.8
1992	21,260	16,754	4,506	121.1	105.6
1993	25,179	18,900	6,279	133.4	113.0
1994	28,891	21,945	6,946	153.2	127.9
1995	35,330	26,181	9,149	184.0	146.3
1996	38,609	28,479	10,130	202.2	160.9
1997	44,868	32,863	12,004	232.4	184.8
1998	57,322	39,715	17,607	289.2	218.3
1999	66,956	44,327	22,629	336.5	236.5
2000	83,986	54,960	29,026	401.4	275.2
2001	92,730	56,455	36,275	422.0	274.2
2002	94,059	55,106	38,953	435.1	276.6
2003	82,585	48,515	34,070	418.4	259.7
2004	84,949	51,557	33,392	446.5	283.6
2005	87,173	58,463	28,710	456.7	316.3
2006	87,497	63,833	23,664	457.6	323.9
2007	90,580	65,939	24,640	481.8	340.9
2008	88,503	59,336	29,168	484.5	300.5
2009	87,586	48,203	39,382	468.4	249.2
2010	90,924	48,695	42,229	485.5	241.3
2011	93,191	53,035	40,155	507.9	240.8
2012	93,507	55,061	38,446	479.1	231.9
2013	89,182	54,772	34,409	460.6	238.8
2014	92,513	60,257	32,257	n/a	n/a
Source: CSO

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Between 1974 and 2014 the value of Goods Exports grew from €1,440 million to €92,513 million while Goods Imports increased from €2,065 million to €60,257 million. The highest level of exports was €94,059 million in 2002 and €65,939 million for imports in 2007.

The Trade in Goods balance (exports minus imports) changed from a deficit of €625 million in 1974 to a surplus of €32,257 million in 2014. The highest Trade surplus was recorded in 2010 at €42,229 million.

Comparing 2014 with 2013 the value of exports and imports increased by 4% and 10%, respectively.

Goods Exports and Imports classified by commodity

15.2 Goods Exports and Imports classified by commodity

€million
SITC (Rev 4)		Exports				Imports
		Exports				Imports
		2011	2012	2013	2014	2011	2012	2013	2014

0	Food and live animals	7,874	8,132	8,734	9,341	5,019	5,589	6,033	6,180
1	Beverages and tobacco	1,177	1,208	1,174	1,147	806	862	823	837
2	Crude materials, inedible, except fuels	1,764	1,733	1,732	1,796	725	694	672	728
3	Mineral fuels, lubricants and related materials	1,354	1,647	823	846	6,946	7,160	6,886	6,475
4	Animal and vegetable oils, fats and waxes	54	55	52	62	248	251	235	217
5	Chemicals and related products	56,031	55,045	50,394	51,573	10,415	10,265	10,873	11,428
6	Manufactured goods classified chiefly by material	1,658	1,690	1,711	1,868	3,712	3,713	3,876	4,219
7	Machinery and transport equipment	11,718	11,562	11,859	11,976	17,977	19,316	17,948	21,819
8	Miscellaneous manufactured articles	10,846	11,401	11,529	12,677	6,013	6,069	6,119	6,876
9	Commodities and transactions not classified elsewhere	179	483	543	611	266	187	210	242
Unclassified estimates¹		534	550	630	616	907	956	1,096	1,236
Total		93,191	93,507	89,181	92,513	53,035	55,061	54,772	60,256
¹Estimates for which a commodity classification is not available
Source: CSO

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Between 2011 and 2014 the value of Goods Exports decreased by 1%. Exports of Food and live animals showed a steady increase (+19%) from €7,874 million in 2011 to €9,341 million in 2014.

Exports of Chemicals and related products (€51,573 million) accounted for 56% of total exports in 2014.

Over the four year period 2011 to 2014 the value of Goods Imports increased by 14% to €60,256 million with imports of Food and live animals increasing by 23%.

Goods Exports classified by country

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15.3 Goods Exports classified by country

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On an overall basis the EU accounted for €50,889 million or 55% of total Goods Exports in 2014 with Great Britain and Belgium being the main EU export markets at 13% each.

Between 2011 and 2014, the value of exports increased by more than 25% to the following countries - Denmark, Luxembourg, Poland, Slovenia, India, Russia and Switzerland.

The USA was the main non-EU destination for goods accounting for 23% of total exports in 2014.

Goods Imports classified by country

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15.4 Goods Imports classified by country

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Between 2011 and 2014 the proportion of Goods Imports coming from the EU has remained relatively stable at around 60%. In 2014 the value of Goods Imports from the EU was 61% of which 44% came from Great Britain. The USA and China have been the main non-EU sources of imports.

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15.3 Goods Exports classified by country

€million
Country	Exports
	Exports
	2011	2012	2013	2014

Austria	291	380	447	360
Belgium	13,227	13,619	11,227	11,801
Bulgaria	59	66	70	69
Croatia¹	-	-	30	29
Cyprus	25	33	32	19
Czech Republic	450	333	461	466
Denmark	462	530	516	593
Estonia	21	22	22	18
Finland	297	357	348	317
France	5,123	4,394	4,193	4,981
Germany	6,610	7,495	6,837	6,051
Great Britain	12,973	13,731	12,794	12,107
Greece	310	254	273	274
Hungary	214	264	264	247
Italy	2,992	2,656	2,299	2,110
Latvia	60	73	47	55
Lithuania	32	55	33	37
Luxembourg	56	62	59	82
Malta	24	24	24	24
Netherlands	3,369	3,604	4,072	4,149
Northern Ireland	1,422	1,436	1,478	1,597
Poland	609	672	817	960
Portugal	453	384	325	354
Romania	337	351	375	360
Slovakia	60	61	61	58
Slovenia	24	31	35	37
Spain	3,260	3,112	2,948	2,792
Sweden	1,026	1,095	912	906
EU Country not specified²	14	21	25	37
Total EU	53,801	55,116	51,025	50,889
of which Euro-Zone	36,141	36,490	33,203	33,481

Australia	708	724	711	712
Brazil	284	256	262	256
Canada	627	781	772	722
China, Hong Kong and Macao	2,330	2,170	1,941	2,112
India	270	287	440	399
Japan	1,743	2,085	1,692	1,761
Malaysia	386	239	198	217
Russia	506	603	637	722
Switzerland	3,686	5,070	5,116	5,255
USA	22,204	18,762	18,959	20,839

Other countries	6,590	7,370	7,403	8,506
Country unknown³	56	45	27	123

Total	93,191	93,507	89,181	92,513
¹Croatia joined the EU on 1 July 2013
²Includes estimates for traders below the intrastat threshold and transactions where the EU country was not specified
³ Trade for which the country of origin or country of final destination is unknown
Source: CSO

15.4 Goods Imports classified by country

€million
Country	Imports
	Imports
	2011	2012	2013	2014

Austria	186	215	222	216
Belgium	1,166	956	999	1,131
Bulgaria	10	12	22	34
Croatia¹	-	-	2	5
Cyprus	3	4	3	2
Czech Republic	251	297	331	398
Denmark	605	456	685	417
Estonia	6	12	15	42
Finland	123	114	103	140
France	4,327	5,161	4,402	6,209
Germany	3,881	3,676	4,365	4,570
Great Britain	15,638	15,403	15,870	16,359
Greece	35	24	30	35
Hungary	111	131	105	124
Italy	775	782	875	943
Latvia	33	38	23	29
Lithuania	60	52	79	68
Luxembourg	67	47	51	38
Malta	10	9	11	8
Netherlands	2,434	2,318	2,691	2,650
Northern Ireland	1,047	1,026	1,016	1,096
Poland	287	370	387	438
Portugal	125	132	143	166
Romania	124	126	109	101
Slovakia	53	62	61	46
Slovenia	11	9	17	35
Spain	667	660	776	872
Sweden	480	367	375	508
EU Country not specified²	362	360	282	313
Total EU	32,879	32,817	34,049	36,992
of which Euro-Zone	13,869	14,179	14,762	17,133

Australia	107	105	91	80
Brazil	1,042	1,097	500	539
Canada	257	259	340	357
China, Hong Kong and Macao	2,714	2,878	3,091	3,496
India	372	365	387	443
Japan	796	733	1,043	1,762
Malaysia	230	216	208	230
Russia	122	102	148	226
Switzerland	762	957	838	1,253
USA	8,120	9,121	8,170	8,728

Other countries	4,645	5,789	5,519	5,685
Country unknown³	991	620	389	464

Total	53,035	55,061	54,772	60,256
¹Croatia joined the EU on 1 July 2013
²Includes estimates for traders below the intrastat threshold and transactions where the EU country was not specified
³ Trade for which the country of origin or country of final destination is unknown
Source: CSO

Statistical Yearbook of Ireland 2015

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Introduction - Trade

Goods Exports and Imports summary analysis

Goods Exports and Imports classified by commodity

Goods Exports classified by country

Goods Imports classified by country

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