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The Wholesale/Retail sector was the biggest importer of goods from the UK, importing €12.8 billion of goods from the UK in 2017, or 57% of Ireland’s total UK imports.

The Wholesale/Retail sector also has the highest number of enterprises importing from the UK with 12,761 or 47% of all enterprises importing from the UK. Other Manufacturing and Construction and Services/Other each have approximately 6,300 enterprises importing from the UK.

Sector% Share of value of imports
Agri/food8.00267335350068
Pharma-
ceuticals
4.97313551105478
Other
manu-
facturing
and
cons-
truction
14.1136578185043
Wholesale/retail57.0523008626799
Services/other13.2213090279432
Unknown2.63692342631709
Sector% Share of enterprises
Agri/food5.66440777843253
Pharma-
ceuticals
0.703447259870359
Other
manu-
facturing
and
cons-
truction
23.202710665881
Wholesale/
retail
46.9983794932233
Services/
other
23.2579552150854
Unknown0.173099587507366
Table 3.1 Imports from the UK by sector 2017
SectorImports
€million% of totalNumber of enterprises% of total
Agri/food1,79781,5386
Pharmaceuticals1,11751911
Other manufacturing and construction3,170146,30023
Wholesale/retail12,8135712,76147
Services/other2,969136,31523
Unknown5923470
Total22,45910027,152100

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