Economy Statistical Yearbook of Ireland 2014

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.

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	83,889	55,909	27,980	401.4	275.2
2001	92,690	57,384	35,306	422.0	274.2
2002	93,675	55,628	38,047	435.1	276.6
2003	82,076	47,865	34,212	418.4	259.7
2004	84,410	51,105	33,304	446.5	283.6
2005	86,732	57,465	29,267	456.7	316.3
2006	86,772	60,857	25,915	458.0	325.2
2007	89,226	63,486	25,741	481.8	340.9
2008	86,394	57,585	28,810	484.5	300.5
2009	84,239	45,061	39,178	468.4	249.2
2010	89,703	45,763	43,429	485.5	241.3
2011	91,228	48,315	42,913	507.9	240.8
2012	91,688	49,151	42,538	479.1	231.9
2013	86,890	49,635	37,255	460.6	238.8
Source: CSO

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Between 1974 and 2013 the value of Goods Exports grew from €1,440 million to €86,890 million while Goods Imports increased from €2,065 million to €49,635 million. The highest level of exports was €93,675 million in 2002 and €63,486 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 €37,255 million in 2013. The highest Trade surplus was recorded in 2010 at €43,429 million.

Comparing 2013 with 2012 the value of exports decreased by 5% while the value of imports increased by 1%.

Goods Exports and Imports classified by commodity

15.2 Goods Exports and Imports classified by commodity
									€million
SITC (Rev 4)		Exports				Imports
		Exports				Imports
		2010	2011	2012	2013	2010	2011	2012	2013
0	Food and live animals	7,003	7,874	8,132	8,748	4,579	5,018	5,589	6,050
1	Beverages and tobacco	1,204	1,177	1,208	1,178	822	806	862	815
2	Crude materials, inedible, except fuels	1,444	1,764	1,733	1,714	678	725	694	673
3	Mineral fuels, lubricants and related materials	1,028	1,354	1,647	823	5,602	6,946	7,160	6,885
4	Animal and vegetable oils, fats and waxes	27	54	55	51	181	248	251	236
5	Chemicals and related products	53,237	56,031	55,045	50,418	8,758	10,415	10,265	10,875
6	Manufactured goods classified chiefly by material	1,449	1,658	1,690	1,706	3,499	3,712	3,713	3,848
7	Machinery and transport equipment	10,587	10,370	10,314	10,430	12,324	12,426	12,560	12,063
8	Miscellaneous manufactured articles	10,371	10,231	10,831	10,693	6,153	6,013	6,069	6,027
9	Commodities and transactions not classified elsewhere	2,711	179	483	544	2,171	1,097	1,033	1,066
Unclassified estimates¹		643	535	550	583	998	908	956	1,096
Total		89,703	91,228	91,688	86,890	45,763	48,315	49,151	49,635
¹Estimates for which a commodity classification is not available.
Source: CSO

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Between 2010 and 2013 the value of Goods Exports decreased by 3%. Exports of Food and live animals showed a steady increase (+25%) from €7,003 million in 2010 to €8,748 million in 2013.

Exports of Chemicals and related products (€50,418 million) accounted for 58% of total exports in 2013.

Over the four year period 2010 to 2013 the value of Goods Imports increased by 8% to €49,635 million with imports of Food and live animals increasing by 32%.

Goods Exports classified by country

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15.3 Goods Exports classified by country 2010 - 2013

15.3 Goods Exports classified by country⁴
				€ million
Country	Exports
	Exports
	2010	2011	2012	2013
Austria	310	291	380	479
Belgium	13,553	13,227	13,619	11,221
Bulgaria	49	59	66	70
Croatia¹	-	-	-	13
Cyprus	32	25	33	33
Czech Republic	451	450	333	458
Denmark	405	462	530	542
Estonia	22	21	22	22
Finland	295	297	357	344
France	4,559	4,951	4,348	4,016
Germany	6,401	6,285	7,461	6,572
Great Britain	12,617	12,845	13,682	12,505
Greece	316	310	254	270
Hungary	162	214	264	261
Italy	2,749	2,992	2,656	2,291
Latvia	42	60	73	47
Lithuania	33	32	55	33
Luxembourg	76	56	62	57
Malta	31	24	24	24
Netherlands	3,092	3,123	3,292	3,671
Northern Ireland	1,326	1,422	1,436	1,470
Poland	602	609	672	811
Portugal	418	453	384	323
Romania	258	337	351	374
Slovakia	62	60	61	61
Slovenia	41	24	31	35
Spain	3,469	3,049	2,766	2,693
Sweden	683	874	804	822
EU Country not specified²	61	10	21	44
Total EU	52,115	52,563	54,037	49,562
of which Euro-Zone	35,411	35,192	35,751	32,112

Australia	781	708	724	713
Brazil	243	284	256	262
Canada	559	627	781	772
China, Hong Kong and Macao	2,407	2,330	2,168	1,941
India	161	204	235	281
Japan	1,749	1,743	2,085	1,692
Malaysia	590	385	239	198
Russia	377	506	603	637
Switzerland	3,562	3,686	5,070	5,116
USA	21,111	21,601	18,157	18,389

Other countries	5,926	6,534	7,290	7,300
Country unknown³	123	56	45	28

Total	89,703	91,228	91,688	86,890

¹Croatia joined the EU on 1 July 2013.
²Includes estimates for traders below the intrastat threshold and transactions where the EU coutry was not specified.
³ Trade for which the country of orgin or country of final destination is unknown.
⁴ Exports are recorded at the time the goods cross the territorial boundaries of a country. This differs from the Balance of Payments definition of merchandise trade which records exports and imports only when a transfer of ownership occurs, ie when payment is received.
Source: CSO

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On an overall basis the EU accounted for €49,562 million or 57% of total Goods Exports in 2013. Great Britain and Belgium were the main EU export markets, representing 14% and 13% respectively in 2013.

Between 2010 and 2013, the value of exports increased by more than 30% to the following ten countries- Austria, Bulgaria, Denmark, Hungary, Poland, Romania, Canada, India, Russia and Switzerland.

The USA was the main non-EU destination for goods accounting for 21% of total exports in 2013.

Goods Imports classified by country

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15.4 Goods Imports classified by country 2010 - 2013

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Historically, the proportion of Goods Imports coming from the EU has remained stable at over 60%. Around two thirds of the value of imports in 2013 came from the EU with 32% coming from the UK.

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Statistical Yearbook of Ireland 2014

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