The USA was Ireland’s largest export market in 2017, with over €33 billion in exports. The second biggest export partner was the UK, with €16.4 billion of exports.
Medical and pharmaceutical products and Organic chemicals comprised €20.5 billion, or 62% of the total exports to the USA in 2017.
Belgium, Germany and Switzerland complete the remaining top 5 export markets.
| X-axis label | value of exports |
|---|---|
| USA | 33.219217362502 |
| UK | 16.418 |
| Belgium | 13.333098955349 |
| Germany | 10.0903783638187 |
| Switzerland | 6.211951784 |
| Netherlands | 5.9201751883089 |
| France | 5.3371914739217 |
| China | 4.37833602999999 |
| Italy | 2.60904911398777 |
| Japan | 2.59299849605093 |
| Table 2.1 Top ten exporting partners 2017 | |||
| Rank | Country | €million | % of total exports |
| 1 | USA | 33,284 | 27 |
| 2 | UK | 16,455 | 12 |
| 3 | Belgium | 13,333 | 11 |
| 4 | Germany | 10,099 | 8 |
| 5 | Switzerland | 6,212 | 5 |
| 6 | Netherlands | 5,929 | 5 |
| 7 | France | 5,348 | 4 |
| 8 | China | 4,378 | 4 |
| 9 | Italy | 2,620 | 2 |
| 10 | Japan | 2,617 | 2 |
The UK was the biggest import market in 2017, with imports of over €18.8 billion.
Imports of petroleum products were €2.7 billion while imports of medical and pharmaceutical products were €3.1 billion. Imports of food and beverages were almost €4 billion in value, and imports of machinery and transport equipment were €3.2 billion.
There were €16.2 billion of imports from the USA in 2017, including imports of chemicals and related goods of €5.9 billion, and imports of machinery and transport equipment to the value of €8.1 billion was imported from the USA in 2017.
France, Germany and China made up the remaining top 5 import partners.
| X-axis label | value of imports |
|---|---|
| UK | 18.868413484423 |
| USA | 16.3681740985165 |
| France | 10.5001580896269 |
| Germany | 6.89023239743682 |
| China | 4.42441505599304 |
| Netherlands | 2.43379791078782 |
| Italy | 1.56399846943415 |
| Belgium | 1.39380112417498 |
| Spain | 1.31717898666799 |
| Japan | 1.20920409134084 |
| Table 2.2 Top ten importing partners 2017 | |||
| Rank | Country | €million | % of total imports |
| 1 | UK | 18,868 | 24 |
| 2 | USA | 16,368 | 21 |
| 3 | France | 10,500 | 13 |
| 4 | Germany | 6,890 | 9 |
| 5 | China | 4,424 | 6 |
| 6 | Netherlands | 2,434 | 3 |
| 7 | Italy | 1,564 | 2 |
| 8 | Belgium | 1,394 | 2 |
| 9 | Spain | 1,317 | 2 |
| 10 | Japan | 1,209 | 2 |
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