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Trade Balance 2021

Trade Balance 2021

Trade surplus of €34 billion with the USA in 2021

CSO statistical release, , 11am

Ireland’s largest trading surplus in 2021 was with the USA. The value of exports to the USA was €34 billion greater than the value of imports. There was a surplus of €11 billion with Belgium, and a surplus of over €10 billion with Germany.

The largest trade deficit in 2021 was with France, with €5.3 billion of exports and €10.3 billion of imports recorded, giving a trading deficit of almost €5 billion. A significant share of the imports from France are aircraft.

X-axis labelsurplusdeficit
United States34.44225817711320
Belgium11.30669625818770
Germany10.47673413769490
Netherlands4.887969924159510
China2.744938539234580
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UK0-1.32998564446069
Malaysia0-1.61184444735034
Israel0-1.61724027506935
Switzerland0-2.32727652244275
France0-4.96723291860317