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 label | surplus | deficit |
|---|---|---|
| United States | 34.4422581771132 | 0 |
| Belgium | 11.3066962581877 | 0 |
| Germany | 10.4767341376949 | 0 |
| Netherlands | 4.88796992415951 | 0 |
| China | 2.74493853923458 | 0 |
| 0 | 0 | |
| UK | 0 | -1.32998564446069 |
| Malaysia | 0 | -1.61184444735034 |
| Israel | 0 | -1.61724027506935 |
| Switzerland | 0 | -2.32727652244275 |
| France | 0 | -4.96723291860317 |
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