Written answers
Wednesday, 26 January 2005
Department of An Taoiseach
International Trade
9:00 pm
Bernard Durkan (Kildare North, Fine Gael)
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Question 142: To ask the Taoiseach the trading partners with whom Ireland has achieved the best record in terms of exports in the past 12 months; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [33993/04]
Bernard Durkan (Kildare North, Fine Gael)
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Question 143: To ask the Taoiseach the countries from which Ireland has imported most in the past 12 months and the countries which have shown the growth in this area in the past 12 months; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [33994/04]
Bertie Ahern (Dublin Central, Fianna Fail)
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I propose to take Questions Nos. 142 and 143 together.
Tables 1, exports, and 3, imports, respectively, compare Ireland's main trading partners for the nine month period January to September 2004 with the corresponding period for 2003 — September 2004 is the latest month for which data are available.
Tables 2, exports, and 4, imports, similarly compare the full year 2003 to 2002. In all tables the top 30 trading partners have been identified together with the respective period percentage changes.
| Export trading partners — Table 1. | |||
| Country of destination | Jan-Sep 2003 | Jan-Sep 2004 | Period % change |
| â'¬(000) | â'¬(000) | ||
| United States | 12,744,065 | 12,560,750 | -1.4 |
| Great Britain | 9,920,176 | 9,889,607 | -0.3 |
| Belgium | 7,674,530 | 9,529,492 | 24.2 |
| Germany | 5,006,335 | 4,688,359 | -6.4 |
| France | 3,669,316 | 3,667,884 | -0.0 |
| Italy | 2,547,035 | 2,807,165 | 10.2 |
| Netherlands | 2,986,770 | 2,733,806 | -8.5 |
| Switzerland | 1,893,528 | 2,144,837 | 13.3 |
| Spain | 1,745,406 | 1,752,342 | 0.4 |
| Japan | 1,528,104 | 1,734,704 | 13.5 |
| Northern Ireland | 1,066,228 | 1,088,778 | 2.1 |
| Sweden | 740,691 | 697,598 | -5.8 |
| Hong Kong | 504,825 | 656,483 | 30.0 |
| Singapore | 541,276 | 635,301 | 17.4 |
| Australia | 480,964 | 538,573 | 12.0 |
| China | 410,226 | 455,896 | 11.1 |
| South Korea | 389,801 | 442,136 | 13.4 |
| Norway | 410,558 | 356,985 | -13.0 |
| Denmark | 358,122 | 351,773 | -1.8 |
| Malaysia | 424,522 | 328,523 | -22.6 |
| Mexico | 441,018 | 313,634 | -28.9 |
| Portugal | 218,282 | 249,538 | 14.3 |
| Austria | 236,123 | 248,059 | 5.1 |
| Canada | 306,714 | 247,343 | -19.4 |
| Taiwan | 220,060 | 245,528 | 11.6 |
| Greece | 235,796 | 243,563 | 3.3 |
| Turkey | 245,541 | 223,173 | -9.1 |
| Finland | 206,423 | 217,496 | 5.4 |
| Saudi Arabia | 220,122 | 197,263 | -10.4 |
| Export trading partners — Table 2. | |||
| Country of destination | Year 2002 | Year 2003 | Year on year % Change |
| â'¬(000) | â'¬(000) | ||
| United States | 16,509,438 | 16,939,245 | 2.6 |
| Great Britain | 20,853,065 | 13,427,189 | -35.6 |
| Belgium | 13,547,073 | 10,334,321 | -23.7 |
| Germany | 6,729,140 | 6,803,989 | 1.1 |
| France | 4,685,440 | 5,013,505 | 7.0 |
| Netherlands | 3,493,468 | 4,181,352 | 19.7 |
| Italy | 3,597,067 | 3,749,807 | 4.2 |
| Switzerland | 3,103,770 | 2,603,265 | -16.1 |
| Spain | 2,239,681 | 2,353,668 | 5.1 |
| Japan | 2,630,798 | 2,109,434 | -19.8 |
| Northern Ireland | 1,610,716 | 1,409,013 | -12.5 |
| Sweden | 1,202,085 | 1,159,286 | -3.6 |
| Singapore | 739,310 | 734,246 | -0.7 |
| Hong Kong | 534,074 | 688,304 | 28.9 |
| Australia | 636,070 | 647,646 | 1.8 |
| China | 538,662 | 584,978 | 8.6 |
| Malaysia | 765,941 | 578,068 | -24.5 |
| Norway | 517,204 | 530,137 | 2.5 |
| Mexico | 456,560 | 518,544 | 13.6 |
| South Korea | 640,367 | 509,585 | -20.4 |
| Denmark | 545,302 | 501,851 | -8.0 |
| Canada | 510,896 | 469,287 | -8.1 |
| Austria | 334,916 | 329,057 | -1.7 |
| Greece | 329,898 | 312,165 | -5.4 |
| Portugal | 362,144 | 309,744 | -14.5 |
| Turkey | 327,777 | 303,848 | -7.3 |
| Finland | 302,982 | 292,846 | -3.3 |
| Taiwan | 345,974 | 285,561 | -17.5 |
| Saudi Arabia | 365,110 | 273,558 | -25.1 |
| Philippines | 342,688 | 208,010 | -39.3 |
| Import trading partners — Table 3. | |||
| Country of origin | Jan-Sep 2003 | Jan-Sep 2004 | Period % change |
| â'¬(000) | â'¬(000) | ||
| Great Britain | 9,908,961 | 10,259,825 | 3.5 |
| United States | 5,339,722 | 5,178,843 | -3.0 |
| Germany | 2,555,892 | 2,765,848 | 8.2 |
| China | 1,534,019 | 2,037,768 | 32.8 |
| France | 1,368,854 | 1,650,515 | 20.6 |
| Japan | 1,732,338 | 1,575,995 | -9.0 |
| Netherlands | 1,257,554 | 1,376,856 | 9.5 |
| Northern Ireland | 766,312 | 816,107 | 6.5 |
| Italy | 809,144 | 798,315 | -1.3 |
| South Korea | 541,090 | 694,387 | 28.3 |
| Taiwan | 567,269 | 684,466 | 20.7 |
| Singapore | 745,194 | 676,596 | -9.2 |
| Belgium | 574,873 | 668,763 | 16.3 |
| Norway | 561,870 | 666,505 | 18.6 |
| Denmark | 598,629 | 524,928 | -12.3 |
| Spain | 437,368 | 469,154 | 7.3 |
| Switzerland | 373,176 | 422,066 | 13.1 |
| Sweden | 323,313 | 393,422 | 21.7 |
| Hong Kong | 280,799 | 318,670 | 13.5 |
| Malaysia | 347,370 | 313,678 | -9.7 |
| Thailand | 232,702 | 265,544 | 14.1 |
| Turkey | 214,175 | 233,033 | 8.8 |
| Canada | 335,748 | 204,897 | -39.0 |
| Brazil | 167,870 | 186,133 | 10.9 |
| Finland | 201,022 | 174,124 | -13.4 |
| Hungary | 79,497 | 159,991 | 101.3 |
| Portugal | 128,565 | 140,840 | 9.5 |
| South Africa | 116,287 | 124,676 | 7.2 |
| Mexico | 173,564 | 114,474 | -34.0 |
| India | 104,040 | 109,007 | 4.8 |
| Import trading partners — Table 4 | |||
| Country of origin | Year 2002 | Year 2003 | Year on year % Change |
| â'¬(000) | â'¬(000) | ||
| Great Britain | 19,083,893 | 13,659,298 | -28.4 |
| United States | 8,517,747 | 7,416,172 | -12.9 |
| Germany | 3,564,277 | 3,493,771 | -2.0 |
| Japan | 1,840,254 | 2,296,562 | 24.8 |
| China | 1,495,131 | 2,215,503 | 48.2 |
| France | 2,265,235 | 1,912,216 | -15.6 |
| Netherlands | 1,858,790 | 1,678,649 | -9.7 |
| Italy | 1,098,554 | 1,070,404 | -2.6 |
| Northern Ireland | 1,036,313 | 1,042,511 | 0.6 |
| Singapore | 1,005,572 | 1,039,057 | 3.3 |
| Denmark | 694,096 | 816,038 | 17.6 |
| Taiwan | 999,128 | 787,897 | -21.1 |
| Belgium | 788,365 | 750,522 | -4.8 |
| Norway | 721,803 | 749,116 | 3.8 |
| South Korea | 889,531 | 733,411 | -17.6 |
| Spain | 676,895 | 665,260 | -1.7 |
| Switzerland | 616,648 | 487,462 | -20.9 |
| Malaysia | 675,442 | 468,801 | -30.6 |
| Canada | 423,825 | 452,442 | 6.8 |
| Sweden | 421,363 | 447,657 | 6.2 |
| Hong Kong | 498,309 | 382,250 | -23.3 |
| Thailand | 283,091 | 334,944 | 18.3 |
| Finland | 728,582 | 263,710 | -63.8 |
| Turkey | 226,532 | 262,225 | 15.8 |
| Brazil | 159,348 | 221,474 | 39.0 |
| Mexico | 249,637 | 209,284 | -16.2 |
| Philippines | 353,279 | 181,851 | -48.5 |
| Portugal | 170,286 | 179,304 | 5.3 |
| Hungary | 182,279 | 163,456 | -10.3 |
| Austria | 206,445 | 163,058 | -21.0 |
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