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Irish Traders and the UK 2016

Trading Intensity with the UK

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Trading intensity with the UK describes the proportion of trading enterprises’ total exports/imports with the UK.

8,626 enterprises exported goods from Ireland in 2016. About 40% of these enterprises traded exclusively with the UK, exporting €2.3 billion of goods, or 16% of total exports to the UK. Just over 20% of exporting enterprises did not export any goods to the UK.

In 2016, 30,807 enterprises imported goods into Ireland. Around 10,500 of these imported goods only from the UK, recording imports of €3.9 billion. Around 4,500 importers had no trade with the UK.

UK Trade as % of total trade	1-24%	25-49%	50-74%	75-79%	>99%
Exports	4031.99108471202	2191.90967306422	2152.87516800829	4156.95579424577	2317.04163251862
Imports	2295.84966132827	2113.38729640517	3133.25879066289	9092.77021323561	3880.12228075169

Table 7.1 Trading intensity with the UK
UK trade as % of total	Exports			Imports
	Number of enterprises	€million		Number of enterprises	€million
	Number of enterprises	Total UK trade	Total trade	Number of enterprises	Total UK trade	Total trade
UK trade 0%	1,846		14,794	4,490		14,382
UK trade 1-24%	993	4,032	86,599	4,901	2,296	33,911
UK trade 25-49%	506	2,192	6,492	2,548	2,113	6,051
UK trade 50-74%	534	2,153	3,429	2,563	3,133	4,907
UK trade 75-99%	1,366	4,157	4,600	5,747	9,093	10,073
UK trade >99%	3,381	2,317	2,317	10,558	3,880	3,880
Total	8,626	14,851	118,230	30,807	20,515	73,204

Open in Excel: Irelands Trade with the UK 2016 TBL7.1 (XLS 12KB)

Looking at the type of enterprises who had the UK as their only export market, the largest sector was Wholesale/Retail at 44% of enterprises, followed by Other Manufacturing and Construction sector which made up 23% of enterprises.

Analysed by company size, two thirds of companies who had the UK as their only export market had fewer than 10 employees. SMEs in total accounted for 94% of UK only exporting firms.