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Goods Exports and Imports October 2022

The value of exports for the first 10 months of 2022 have already exceeded 2021

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CSO statistical publication, 15 December 2022, 11am

Key Findings

Unadjusted goods exports were €17.6 billion in October 2022, an increase of €2.6 billion compared with October last year.
Unadjusted goods imports were €12.6 billion, which was €3.6 billion higher than imports in October 2021.
Seasonally adjusted goods exports were €18.3 billion in October 2022, a decrease of €537 million compared with September 2022
Seasonally adjusted goods imports were €12.6 billion in October 2022.
Imports from Great Britain were €2.8 billion in October 2022, while exports to Great Britain were €1.6 billion.

Statistician's Comment

The Central Statistics Office (CSO) has today (15 December 2022) released Goods Exports and Imports October 2022.

Commenting on the release, Ciarán Counihan, Statistician in the International Trade in Goods Division said: “In October 2022, Ireland’s unadjusted exports of goods increased by €2.6 billion to €17.6 billion compared with October 2021. When seasonally adjusted, exports of goods fell by €537 million compared with September 2022.

The unadjusted imports for October 2022 were valued at €12.6 billion, an increase of nearly €3.6 billion on October 2021. Seasonally adjusted imports were €12.6 billion in October 2022.

Comparing the first 10 months of 2022 with the same period in 2021, exports of goods increased by 29%, and the value of imports increased by 42%. Exports for January to October 2022 were more than €176 billion. This value already exceeds the total exports for the year 2021 of €165 billion.

Imports from Great Britain grew by 88% to €2.8 billion in October 2022 compared with October 2021, where the largest increases were in the imports of Mineral Fuels and Chemicals and related products.

Exports to Great Britain increased by 52% to €1.6 billion in October 2022.”

Headline Table

Table A Goods Exports and Imports seasonally adjusted
€million
	Exports	Imports	Surplus
September 2022	18,844	13,300	5,545
October 2022	18,307	12,628	5,679
Value change	-537	-671	134
% change	-2.9	-5.0	2.4

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Seasonally adjusted goods trade exports decreased by €537 million in October 2022

Seasonally adjusted goods exports decreased by €537 million (-3%) to €18,307 million in October 2022 compared with September 2022, according to preliminary figures.

Seasonally adjusted goods imports decreased by €671 million (-5%) to €12,628 million leading to an increase of €134 million (+2%) in the seasonally adjusted trade surplus to €5,679 million in October 2022 compared with September 2022 (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
2016		119,292	74,296	44,996	125.6	158.2	102.7	93.3	110.2
2017		122,785	82,943	39,842	135.8	168.9	99.3	96.1	103.3
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

2020	January	14,989	7,108	7,882	207.1	185.4	95.5	94.5	101.1
	February	11,570	7,971	3,599	166.4	215.7	91.7	91.1	100.7
	March	17,664	6,667	10,997	236.9	175.7	98.4	93.5	105.2
	April	11,343	5,571	5,772	160.3	147.7	93.3	93.0	100.4
	May	12,875	6,153	6,722	180.3	163.8	94.2	92.6	101.7
	June	13,647	6,750	6,897	182.4	175.4	98.7	94.8	104.1
	July	13,617	8,378	5,239	191.8	221.6	93.7	93.1	100.5
	August	12,935	5,999	6,937	182.8	164.5	93.3	89.9	103.8
	September	13,991	6,464	7,527	196.7	166.0	94.0	94.1	99.9
	October	12,230	7,660	4,570	173.8	210.0	92.9	89.2	104.1
	November	14,918	9,343	5,576	211.3	261.4	92.8	87.7	105.8
	December	12,351	9,004	3,347	170.0	252.6	94.8	87.0	108.9

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	17,993	13,165	4,828	244.6	311.7	97.2	104.4	93.2
	June	17,591	12,849	4,742	244.0	306.8	95.1	103.2	92.2
	July	14,846	10,726	4,120	205.4	248.1	95.4	106.5	89.5
	August	19,455	12,549	6,906	278.7	289.8	92.1	106.7	86.3
	September	19,594	13,136	6,458	265.6	295.7	97.4	109.5	88.9
	October	17,577	12,570	5,006	..	..	..	..	..
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. October 2022 is based on current Intrastat response levels. See background notes.

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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		October 2021 - 2022				January - October 2021 - 2022
Unadjusted		2021	2022	Value change	% change	2021	2022	Value change	% change
Exports
	Total	14,958	17,577	2,618	18	137,038	176,466	39,429	29
	Great Britain	1,073	1,635	562	52	11,587	14,592	3,005	26
	Northern Ireland	335	434	99	29	3,048	4,078	1,030	34
	EU27	5,129	6,591	1,462	29	51,189	67,845	16,656	33
	USA	5,764	5,312	-452	-8	43,614	53,641	10,027	23
	Rest of World	2,657	3,605	948	36	27,601	36,311	8,710	32

Imports
	Total	8,994	12,570	3,576	40	82,263	116,797	34,534	42
	Great Britain	1,487	2,802	1,315	88	11,982	20,303	8,321	69
	Northern Ireland	447	388	-60	-13	3,373	4,266	893	26
	EU27	2,686	4,028	1,341	50	27,759	34,620	6,862	25
	USA	1,590	1,923	333	21	14,224	18,686	4,462	31
	Rest of World	2,783	3,430	647	23	24,925	38,921	13,996	56

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Exports and imports by region

The (unadjusted) value of goods exports increased by €2,618 million (+18%) to €17,577 million in October 2022 compared with October 2021. The value of goods exports for the period January to October 2022 increased by €39,429 million (+29%) to €176,466 million, when compared with the same period of 2021.

The (unadjusted) value of goods imports increased by €3,576 million (+40%) to €12,570 million in October 2022 compared with October 2021. The value of goods imports for the first 10 months of 2022 increased by €34,534 million (+42%) to €116,797 million, when compared with the same period of 2021.

Exports to Great Britain accounted for 9% of total exports in October 2022. The products accounting for the largest share of exports were Chemicals & Related Products, with €767 million and Food & Live Animals with €343 million.

Imports from Great Britain in October 2022 were €2,802 million, which was 22% of the total value of imports. Imports of Mineral Fuels accounted for €965 million, and imports of Chemicals & Related Products were valued at €794 million (see Table 5).

The EU accounted for €6,591 million (37%) of total goods exports in October 2022, of which €1,716 million went to Belgium, €1,625 million went to Germany, and €1,113 million went to the Netherlands.

The USA was the main non-EU destination accounting for €5,312 million (30%) of total exports in October 2022 (see Table 4).

X-axis label	EU 27	Rest of World	UK	US
Apr 2021	4.90713263466844	2.45698396000001	1.34918852232651	3.57577931
May 2021	5.45478810269973	2.689996428	1.50140088056247	3.90149927
Jun 2021	5.60214324394904	3.112772704	1.75320993601654	4.281263191
Jul 2021	4.52685118279434	3.134559757	1.79083712755728	3.750234214
Aug 2021	4.85342560065652	2.785794549	1.29805871461404	4.229442456
Sep 2021	5.85619210292483	2.793674125	1.73716423676024	4.384452418
Oct 2021	5.12918788059397	2.656838563	1.40791061856762	5.764283375
Nov 2021	5.7871243995022	2.763566978	2.06671239289944	5.006429187
Dec 2021	4.68630704488206	2.939133036	1.48132491297317	3.94675177
Jan 2022	6.27725462384199	2.796754711	1.74828446929616	5.244730516
Feb 2022	6.30750048782998	3.34921348	1.38697653465659	4.825347098
Mar 2022	7.03328837324932	4.00169138399999	1.83135468789207	7.400502251
Apr 2022	6.42369394328578	3.360673459	1.93379661446037	5.490089082
May 2022	6.28278937059589	4.34727528399999	1.94683732540357	5.416220648
Jun 2022	6.27580567239441	3.834350227	2.39427130896359	5.086608588
Jul 2022	6.28955280023639	3.30623685399999	1.57499790581805	3.674679746
Aug 2022	8.59684914653353	3.623791805	1.9480955192008	5.286338789
Sep 2022	7.76705654941603	4.085414753	1.83733109031194	5.904288261
Oct 2022	6.5910459319763	3.605243218	2.06825711355598	5.312004723

X-axis label	EU 27	Rest of World	UK	US
Apr 2021	2.81846802469977	2.70676447761457	1.48920057588016	1.23441473238069
May 2021	3.4181288019952	2.34016251437405	1.55399712735357	1.44673599207556
Jun 2021	3.68653775830562	3.1218809127626	1.77837455295666	1.30265117268739
Jul 2021	2.79174376634401	2.20922841169683	1.45866757908514	1.336498983027
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	3.58414247234422	5.0557663084526	2.37734273536575	2.14742717254763
Jun 2022	3.73769269742171	4.63194833418044	2.58182054710168	1.89742742630129
Jul 2022	3.16971134004096	4.00079266673578	2.28251337639092	1.27258290677021
Aug 2022	3.31572077153164	4.38113306942322	2.79448750759633	2.05752350369794
Sep 2022	4.57377358729566	3.63823814010219	2.4923743805914	2.43188414696008
Oct 2022	4.02771952547094	3.4300198622485	3.18950429261043	1.9229057733846

Exports by product

Exports of Medical & Pharmaceutical Products increased by €184 million (+3%) to €6,550 million in October 2022 compared with October 2021. This represented 37% of total exports.

Exports of Organic Chemicals increased by €1,116 million (+52%) to €3,270 million.

Exports of Electrical Machinery, Apparatus, Appliances & Parts increased by €243 million (+23%) to €1,298 million

Exports of Food & Live Animals increased by €173 million (+16%) to €1,266 million in October 2022 compared with October 2021 (see Table 3).

Imports by product

Imports of Organic Chemicals increased by €453 million (+47%) to €1,428 million, representing 11% of total imports in October 2022.

Imports of Mineral Fuels, Lubricants & Related Products increased by €686 million (+98%) to €1,385 million in October 2022 compared with October 2021.

Imports of Other Transport Equipment (including aircraft) increased by €478 million (+49%) to €1,448 million.

Imports of Office Machines & Automatic Data Processing Machines increased by €203 million (+52%) to €597 million.

The value of goods imports for October 2022 excluding SITC 79 (Other Transport Equipment, Including Aircraft) increased by €3,098 million (+39%) to €11,122 million, compared with the corresponding October 2021 figure of €8,024 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
			Oct	Oct	Jan-Oct	Jan-Oct	Oct	Oct	Jan-Oct	Jan-Oct
			2021	2022	2021	2022	2021	2022	2021	2022
0	Food and live animals		1,093	1,266	9,892	12,103	657	913	5,898	7,632
	00	Live animals other than animals of Division 03	71	50	429	470	63	76	175	218
	01	Meat and meat preparations	355	395	3,258	3,884	75	96	710	910
	02	Dairy products and birds' eggs	291	410	2,644	3,641	73	100	648	900
	03	Fish, crustaceans, molluscs and preparations thereof	48	42	497	531	19	26	216	242
	04	Cereals and cereal preparations	49	62	472	567	113	162	971	1,377
	05	Vegetables and fruit	33	29	335	320	96	119	1,010	1,170
	06	Sugars, sugar preparations and honey	10	11	103	104	33	39	290	363
	07	Coffee, tea, cocoa, spices and manufactures thereof	42	44	365	391	62	70	482	567
	08	Feeding stuff for animals (excluding unmilled cereals)	39	47	369	452	71	155	876	1,244
	09	Miscellaneous edible products and preparations	154	176	1,419	1,741	52	70	519	641
1	Beverages and tobacco		162	184	1,417	1,712	90	101	826	952
	11	Beverages	162	184	1,416	1,711	88	99	761	881
	12	Tobacco and tobacco manufactures	0	0	1	1	2	2	65	71
2	Crude materials, inedible, except fuels		198	167	1,666	1,881	95	93	868	958
	21	Hides, skins and furskins, raw	6	7	58	69	0	0	0	0
	22	Oil seeds and oleaginous fruits	0	8	8	17	2	2	20	23
	23	Crude rubber (including synthetic and reclaimed)	10	5	70	89	1	2	10	12
	24	Cork and wood	24	20	235	260	28	19	227	218
	25	Pulp and waste paper	8	6	73	70	3	6	29	42
	26	Textile fibres and their wastes	13	10	117	108	1	2	11	20
	27	Crude fertilisers and minerals (excluding coal, petroleum and precious stones)	7	11	102	127	20	16	155	184
	28	Metalliferous ores and metal scrap	118	89	895	1,017	22	21	182	201
	29	Crude animal and vegetable materials nes	11	11	109	124	18	25	232	257
3	Mineral fuels, lubricants and related materials		84	119	796	1,377	698	1,385	4,630	11,005
	32	Coal, coke and briquettes	7	8	81	79	36	8	162	300
	33	Petroleum, petroleum products and related materials	59	94	643	1,064	375	728	3,085	6,268
	34	Gas, natural and manufactured	1	0	18	12	249	622	1,098	4,124
	35	Electric current	17	17	54	221	37	26	285	314
4	Animal and vegetable oils, fats and waxes		9	14	92	126	34	52	295	481
	41	Animal oils and fats	8	10	78	94	3	3	18	39
	42	Fixed vegetable fats and oils	2	3	13	25	27	41	249	396
	43	Animal or vegetable fats and oils, processed; waxes	0	2	1	7	4	8	27	46
5	Chemicals and related products		9,593	11,216	85,373	114,477	2,406	3,350	20,973	32,850
	51	Organic chemicals	2,154	3,270	21,878	32,408	974	1,428	8,346	15,918
	52	Inorganic chemicals	34	107	268	1,195	42	79	299	813
	53	Dyeing, tanning and colouring materials	13	13	115	130	25	27	240	272
	54	Medical and pharmaceutical products	6,366	6,550	51,863	68,001	905	1,205	7,802	9,520
	55	Essential oils; perfume materials; toilet and cleansing preparations	603	831	6,915	8,324	155	181	1,173	1,449
	56	Fertilisers (other than those of Division 27)	0	1	8	17	28	79	387	907
	57	Plastics in primary forms	25	30	279	352	97	117	933	1,252
	58	Plastics in non-primary forms	67	95	741	874	75	99	756	980
	59	Chemical materials and products nes	332	320	3,308	3,176	106	136	1,038	1,740
6	Manufactured goods classified chiefly by material		261	338	2,336	2,758	645	782	5,648	7,536
	61	Leather; leather manufactures nes; dressed furskins	5	1	34	12	3	3	23	23
	62	Rubber manufactures nes	26	50	195	294	44	46	383	450
	63	Cork and wood manufactures (excluding furniture)	45	39	346	391	39	38	325	384
	64	Paper, paperboard and articles thereof	19	21	165	205	94	123	782	1,097
	65	Textile yarn, fabrics, made-up articles and related products	14	15	144	135	60	66	528	622
	66	Non-metallic mineral manufactures nes	51	53	488	527	81	89	666	902
	67	Iron and steel	20	24	172	213	130	135	907	1,185
	68	Non-ferrous metals	12	19	110	162	48	101	608	1,092
	69	Manufactures of metals nes	70	116	682	819	147	181	1,426	1,782
7	Machinery and transport equipment		1,952	2,406	20,533	23,307	3,111	4,334	31,895	41,010
	71	Power generating machinery and equipment	94	93	1,495	1,139	218	181	1,814	1,781
	72	Machinery specialised for particular industries	54	64	622	662	153	346	1,468	4,322
	73	Metalworking machinery	2	2	37	23	11	11	119	127
	74	General industrial machinery and equipment nes and parts nes	143	223	1,478	1,890	217	254	2,020	2,557
	75	Office machines and automatic data processing machines (including computers)	294	408	3,239	3,926	394	597	3,998	4,842
	76	Telecommunications and sound equipment	80	60	842	919	236	302	1,925	2,373
	77	Electrical machinery, apparatus and appliances nes and parts	1,055	1,298	9,677	12,359	647	877	6,607	8,562
	78	Road vehicles (including air-cushion vehicles)	35	45	339	428	264	319	3,118	3,815
	79	Other transport equipment (including aircraft)	194	213	2,805	1,961	970	1,448	10,826	12,631
8	Miscellaneous manufactured articles		1,507	1,740	14,246	17,373	1,114	1,358	9,691	12,130
	81	Prefab buildings; plumbing and electrical fixtures and fittings	13	15	116	120	45	48	331	404
	82	Furniture and parts thereof; bedding, cushions etc	13	17	130	177	73	70	613	781
	83	Travel goods, handbags and similar containers	3	3	27	28	17	22	126	183
	84	Articles of apparel; clothing accessories	23	38	213	377	236	338	2,065	2,427
	85	Footwear	3	4	26	37	45	61	413	524
	87	Professional, scientific and controlling apparatus nes	634	735	5,870	7,526	193	252	1,850	2,485
	88	Photographic apparatus; optical goods; watches and clocks	131	125	1,328	1,395	50	64	452	699
	89	Miscellaneous manufactured articles nes	687	803	6,536	7,714	454	504	3,841	4,627
9	Commodities and transactions not classified elsewhere		41	12	155	354	10	7	113	75
Unclassified estimates²			58	114	531	999	135	196	1425	2167

Total			14,958	17,577	137,038	176,466	8,994	12,570	82,263	116,797
¹ Trade statistics revised since 2000. October 2022 is based on current Intrastat response levels. See background notes.

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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
	Oct	Oct	Jan-Oct	Jan-Oct	Oct	Oct	Jan-Oct	Jan-Oct
	2021	2022	2021	2022	2021	2022	2021	2022
Austria	28	42	294	354	19	38	261	327
Belgium	1,551	1,716	11,081	15,354	156	168	1,710	2,048
Bulgaria	10	10	106	153	7	5	34	38
Croatia	8	6	62	66	3	2	17	32
Cyprus	8	5	33	58	0	1	6	7
Czech Republic	31	165	510	1,135	69	82	833	915
Denmark	43	48	461	459	59	52	523	575
Estonia	2	4	62	28	2	1	17	10
Finland	22	26	263	258	12	19	409	188
France	454	506	4,410	5,906	850	1,358	8,085	9,902
Germany	1,275	1,625	14,934	21,717	548	839	5,734	8,330
Greece	18	34	1,025	315	10	12	88	88
Hungary	22	33	268	381	15	76	227	477
Italy	303	441	3,825	3,805	172	194	1,744	1,879
Latvia	9	11	75	59	6	7	55	54
Lithuania	5	6	87	65	7	13	100	185
Luxembourg	7	9	68	76	4	6	44	52
Malta	4	4	671	61	1	1	10	16
Netherlands	804	1,113	7,785	11,350	336	456	3,770	3,844
Poland	90	131	1,115	1,191	80	102	720	1,025
Portugal	31	176	306	535	22	55	254	715
Romania	69	40	449	398	7	14	91	106
Slovakia	12	10	111	93	8	8	83	79
Slovenia	14	11	147	181	4	4	41	39
Spain	198	240	1,896	2,252	178	385	1,442	2,074
Sweden	59	105	712	828	53	42	645	610
EU Country not specified²	49	76	431	768	59	88	816	1,005
Total EU27³	5,129	6,591	51,189	67,845	2,686	4,028	27,759	34,620
Euro-Zone⁴	4,748	5,976	47,075	62,466	2,334	3,564	23,853	29,837

Great Britain	1,073	1,635	11,587	14,592	1,487	2,802	11,982	20,303
Northern Ireland	335	434	3,048	4,078	447	388	3,373	4,266
Total UK	1,408	2,068	14,634	18,670	1,934	3,190	15,355	24,569

Australia	47	81	697	1,403	11	9	86	81
Brazil	20	28	263	304	24	74	277	363
Canada	133	366	1,052	3,128	22	43	524	477
China⁵	986	1,115	9,789	12,000	810	986	6,558	12,562
India	46	69	440	445	79	90	684	866
Japan	221	284	2,310	3,486	130	154	1,110	2,827
Malaysia	19	153	193	479	60	60	1,736	553
Mexico	143	234	1,734	1,778	40	52	359	432
Norway	34	24	732	344	73	48	718	557
Russia	75	57	471	477	77	15	416	347
Saudi Arabia	51	74	562	701	28	3	54	36
Singapore	53	66	394	591	22	70	443	614
South Africa	29	34	324	356	11	17	136	267
South Korea	72	68	550	764	117	85	1,106	1,297
Switzerland	225	343	2,513	2,752	467	196	4,146	5,125
Taiwan	25	40	286	423	79	124	671	1,055
Thailand	13	18	164	197	42	88	444	647
Turkey	64	30	593	678	80	114	838	1,175
USA	5,764	5,312	43,614	53,641	1,590	1,923	14,224	18,686
Other countries	390	512	4,396	5,889	549	1,051	4,367	8,959
Country unknown⁶	10	11	138	117	61	149	251	682
Total Non-EU (excl UK)	8,421	8,917	71,215	89,951	4,374	5,353	39,149	57,607

Total	14,958	17,577	137,038	176,466	8,994	12,570	82,263	116,797
¹ Trade statistics revised since 2000. October 2022 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.
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		Oct	Oct	Jan-Oct	Jan-Oct	Oct	Oct	Jan-Oct	Jan-Oct
		2021	2022	2021	2022	2021	2022	2021	2022
Great Britain		1,073	1,635	11,587	14,592	1,487	2,802	11,982	20,303
0	Food and live animals	327	343	2,798	3,202	220	248	1,540	1,823
1	Beverages and tobacco	27	21	187	200	20	21	172	203
2	Crude materials, inedible, except fuels	38	41	376	435	11	10	100	101
3	Mineral fuels, lubricants and related materials	64	55	243	684	292	965	1,998	6,515
4	Animal and vegetable oils, fats and waxes	0	2	7	13	4	8	29	66
5	Chemicals and related products	219	767	3,993	5,693	214	794	1,926	4,795
6	Manufactured goods classified chiefly by material	90	100	815	928	182	206	1,552	1,932
7	Machinery and transport equipment	188	168	2,048	2,185	344	344	2,858	3,012
8	Miscellaneous manufactured articles	117	133	1,101	1,240	199	204	1,791	1,835
9	Commodities and transactions not classified elsewhere	1	4	20	12	2	2	16	20
Northern Ireland		335	434	3,048	4,078	447	388	3,373	4,266
0	Food and live animals	121	142	1,113	1,337	95	119	860	1,098
1	Beverages and tobacco	10	13	82	101	20	25	183	230
2	Crude materials, inedible, except fuels	12	13	124	144	17	13	112	118
3	Mineral fuels, lubricants and related materials	16	19	71	235	39	37	280	456
4	Animal and vegetable oils, fats and waxes	2	2	15	23	5	8	29	65
5	Chemicals and related products	57	99	573	793	157	51	727	1,008
6	Manufactured goods classified chiefly by material	50	50	441	506	42	52	439	501
7	Machinery and transport equipment	28	38	299	371	26	28	250	248
8	Miscellaneous manufactured articles	32	46	266	466	21	24	195	213
9	Commodities and transactions not classified elsewhere	6	11	63	102	25	31	299	330
EU 27²		5,129	6,591	51,189	67,845	2,686	4,028	27,759	34,620
0	Food and live animals	355	468	3,189	4,351	220	296	2,248	2,780
1	Beverages and tobacco	49	52	357	391	36	34	331	348
2	Crude materials, inedible, except fuels	88	61	756	774	27	33	315	333
3	Mineral fuels, lubricants and related materials	2	18	148	159	85	83	607	886
4	Animal and vegetable oils, fats and waxes	6	9	54	76	19	25	165	244
5	Chemicals and related products	3,532	4,717	35,514	49,777	846	1,323	7,714	10,806
6	Manufactured goods classified chiefly by material	72	114	685	775	183	247	1,687	2,212
7	Machinery and transport equipment	445	475	5,299	5,335	928	1,572	11,425	12,833
8	Miscellaneous manufactured articles	526	568	4,688	5,258	235	249	2,125	2,319
9	Commodities and transactions not classified elsewhere	55	109	500	949	108	166	1,143	1,860
USA		5,764	5,312	43,614	53,641	1,590	1,923	14,224	18,686
0	Food and live animals	44	67	406	594	34	53	240	379
1	Beverages and tobacco	49	68	540	712	2	4	21	26
2	Crude materials, inedible, except fuels	2	2	21	25	6	6	51	68
3	Mineral fuels, lubricants and related materials	0	27	19	105	98	78	636	1,412
4	Animal and vegetable oils, fats and waxes	0	-	0	0	0	0	1	1
5	Chemicals and related products	4,726	4,119	33,915	41,870	490	610	4,275	4,628
6	Manufactured goods classified chiefly by material	20	28	184	279	34	53	421	545
7	Machinery and transport equipment	419	350	3,574	3,383	788	928	7,200	9,712
8	Miscellaneous manufactured articles	501	652	4,935	6,665	133	188	1,332	1,904
9	Commodities and transactions not classified elsewhere	2	1	19	9	5	2	48	13
China³		986	1,115	9,789	12,000	810	987	6,558	12,562
0	Food and live animals	49	49	590	506	5	10	57	91
1	Beverages and tobacco	1	1	9	12	0	0	1	1
2	Crude materials, inedible, except fuels	4	5	42	58	4	5	34	49
3	Mineral fuels, lubricants and related materials	-	-	0	0	0	0	0	1
4	Animal and vegetable oils, fats and waxes	0	-	5	0	0	0	0	0
5	Chemicals and related products	171	165	1,648	2,036	102	158	708	5,006
6	Manufactured goods classified chiefly by material	3	4	26	42	89	89	716	918
7	Machinery and transport equipment	667	794	6,358	8,194	339	464	3,183	4,075
8	Miscellaneous manufactured articles	90	97	1,110	1,152	270	261	1,855	2,418
9	Commodities and transactions not classified elsewhere	0	-	0	0	1	0	3	2
Rest of World		1,671	2,490	17,812	24,310	1,973	2,444	18,367	26,359
0	Food and live animals	197	197	1,796	2,113	82	187	953	1,462
1	Beverages and tobacco	26	29	242	297	13	17	120	145
2	Crude materials, inedible, except fuels	54	44	348	445	30	27	256	289
3	Mineral fuels, lubricants and related materials	1	1	315	195	184	221	1,109	1,735
4	Animal and vegetable oils, fats and waxes	1	1	11	13	7	11	71	105
5	Chemicals and related products	888	1,349	9,730	14,308	598	415	5,624	6,606
6	Manufactured goods classified chiefly by material	26	42	185	228	114	136	832	1,428
7	Machinery and transport equipment	204	581	2,957	3,839	686	997	6,979	11,130
8	Miscellaneous manufactured articles	241	244	2,146	2,592	255	433	2,394	3,441
9	Commodities and transactions not classified elsewhere	34	2	83	280	5	1	29	18

Total		14,958	17,577	137,038	176,466	8,994	12,570	82,263	116,797
¹ Trade statistics revised since 2000. October 2022 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 2 Goods Exports and Imports seasonally adjusted1 series
Period		€million			Base year 2010=100
		Value			Volume index
		Exports	Imports	Trade surplus	Exports	Imports
2020	January	13,672	7,621	6,051	191.0	186.4
	February	12,130	8,206	3,924	174.5	211.0
	March	16,784	6,346	10,438	212.6	155.5
	April	11,364	5,963	5,401	157.2	153.2
	May	12,901	6,449	6,451	181.5	169.2
	June	12,980	6,365	6,615	171.1	168.9
	July	13,166	8,125	5,041	186.0	225.2
	August	14,113	7,122	6,992	198.3	197.0
	September	13,601	6,496	7,105	193.6	159.5
	October	12,387	7,256	5,130	171.7	200.8
	November	14,522	8,755	5,767	200.7	258.7
	December	12,972	7,645	5,328	185.2	213.4

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	16,866	10,534	6,332	221.4	248.9
	February	16,594	10,577	6,017	231.1	249.5
	March	18,245	10,818	7,427	246.7	267.2
	April	17,503	11,840	5,664	254.9	273.5
	May	17,858	12,454	5,404	239.5	292.1
	June	16,576	11,812	4,765	239.0	287.6
	July	15,696	12,079	3,617	222.8	272.5
	August	19,718	13,238	6,480	281.2	301.6
	September	18,844	13,300	5,545	255.9	309.0
	October	18,307	12,628	5,679	..	..
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.

Goods Exports and Imports October 2022