Written answers
Tuesday, 11 May 2010
Department of An Taoiseach
Trade Statistics
8:00 am
James Reilly (Dublin North, Fine Gael)
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Question 87: To ask the Taoiseach the value of imports and exports in euro and as a percentage of GNP with the United Kingdom, the United States of America, the eurozone and the rest of the world each year from 1995 to 2009; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18899/10]
John Curran (Dublin Mid West, Fianna Fail)
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The information requested by Deputy O'Reilly is presented in the tables below which show the Republic of Ireland's external trade for the years 1995-2009.
Tables 1 & 2 show the value of the Republic of Ireland's trade in millions of euro with the Eurozone area; Great Britain and Northern Ireland; the US and the rest of the world. The export values are listed in Table 1, whilst the import values are listed in Table 2.
Tables 3 & 4 show the trade data from Tables 1 & 2 as a percentage of GNP for the respective years.
Table 1
| € million | Exports | Exports Total | |||
| Year | Eurozone | UK | US | Rest of World | |
| 1995 | 15,321.9 | 9,014.3 | 2,881.8 | 8,112.1 | 35,330.1 |
| 1996 | 15,514.0 | 9,493.7 | 3,573.4 | 10,031.7 | 38,612.8 |
| 1997 | 17,925.1 | 11,054.9 | 5,050.2 | 10,837.8 | 44,868.0 |
| 1998 | 24,234.3 | 12,920.6 | 7,742.6 | 12,424.3 | 57,321.8 |
| 1999 | 26,821.7 | 14,690.2 | 10,336.8 | 15,107.5 | 66,956.2 |
| 2000 | 31,163.2 | 18,869.8 | 14,227.8 | 19,628.1 | 83,888.9 |
| 2001 | 32,994.9 | 22,629.8 | 15,694.4 | 21,370.8 | 92,689.9 |
| 2002 | 35,698.3 | 22,463.8 | 16,509.4 | 19,003.7 | 93,675.2 |
| 2003 | 33,836.5 | 14,843.1 | 16,939.2 | 16,457.3 | 82,076.1 |
| 2004 | 35,496.9 | 15,198.7 | 16,555.6 | 17,158.3 | 84,409.5 |
| 2005 | 37,839.6 | 15,351.8 | 15,474.8 | 18,066.0 | 86,732.2 |
| 2006 | 36,388.2 | 15,565.8 | 16,182.0 | 18,636.0 | 86,772.0 |
| 2007 | 36,661.3 | 16,742.8 | 15,825.0 | 19,997.0 | 89,226.1 |
| 2008 | 34,725.6 | 15,864.3 | 16,674.3 | 19,130.2 | 86,394.4 |
| 2009 | 34,876.5 | 13,510.9 | 17,584.6 | 17,550.4 | 83,522.5 |
Table 2
| € million | Imports | Imports Total | |||
| Year | Eurozone | UK | US | Rest of World | |
| 1995 | 5,020.5 | 9,264.6 | 4,607.5 | 7,288.2 | 26,180.8 |
| 1996 | 5,566.0 | 9,901.4 | 4,395.5 | 8,616.6 | 28,479.5 |
| 1997 | 6,474.8 | 11,358.3 | 4,922.6 | 10,107.9 | 32,863.5 |
| 1998 | 7,427.0 | 13,466.5 | 6,362.5 | 12,458.9 | 39,715.0 |
| 1999 | 8,486.0 | 14,626.5 | 7,383.7 | 13,830.7 | 44,327.0 |
| 2000 | 11,224.6 | 17,613.2 | 9,148.5 | 17,922.4 | 55,908.6 |
| 2001 | 11,645.5 | 20,481.1 | 8,699.5 | 16,558.0 | 57,384.1 |
| 2002 | 11,420.6 | 20,120.2 | 8,517.7 | 15,569.4 | 55,627.9 |
| 2003 | 10,257.1 | 14,704.5 | 7,416.4 | 15,486.6 | 47,864.5 |
| 2004 | 11,551.1 | 16,034.7 | 6,984.4 | 16,534.9 | 51,105.2 |
| 2005 | 12,721.4 | 18,270.9 | 7,999.9 | 18,472.5 | 57,464.7 |
| 2006 | 14,276.2 | 19,424.6 | 6,808.1 | 20,348.2 | 60,857.2 |
| 2007 | 15,445.9 | 20,869.2 | 7,050.6 | 20,119.7 | 63,485.5 |
| 2008 | 14,308.0 | 19,202.7 | 6,762.8 | 17,311.1 | 57,584.6 |
| 2009 | 10,460.3 | 13,617.9 | 7,839.4 | 12,918.4 | 44,836.1 |
Table 3
| % GNP | Exports | Exports Total | |||
| Year | Eurozone | UK | US | Rest of World | |
| 1995 | 32.6 | 19.2 | 6.1 | 17.3 | 75.2 |
| 1996 | 29.9 | 18.3 | 6.9 | 19.3 | 74.5 |
| 1997 | 30.2 | 18.6 | 8.5 | 18.2 | 75.5 |
| 1998 | 35.3 | 18.8 | 11.3 | 18.1 | 83.6 |
| 1999 | 34.9 | 19.1 | 13.5 | 19.7 | 87.2 |
| 2000 | 34.9 | 21.1 | 15.9 | 22.0 | 93.9 |
| 2001 | 33.7 | 23.1 | 16.0 | 21.8 | 94.6 |
| 2002 | 33.5 | 21.1 | 15.5 | 17.8 | 87.9 |
| 2003 | 28.7 | 12.6 | 14.4 | 13.9 | 69.5 |
| 2004 | 28.1 | 12.0 | 13.1 | 13.6 | 66.9 |
| 2005 | 27.6 | 11.2 | 11.3 | 13.2 | 63.2 |
| 2006 | 23.9 | 10.2 | 10.6 | 12.2 | 56.9 |
| 2007 | 22.7 | 10.4 | 9.8 | 12.4 | 55.3 |
| 2008 | 22.5 | 10.3 | 10.8 | 12.4 | 55.9 |
| 2009 | 26.5 | 10.3 | 13.4 | 13.4 | 63.5 |
Table 4
| % GNP | Imports | Imports Total | |||
| Year | Eurozone | UK | US | Rest of World | |
| 1995 | 10.7 | 19.7 | 9.8 | 15.5 | 55.8 |
| 1996 | 10.7 | 19.1 | 8.5 | 16.6 | 54.9 |
| 1997 | 10.9 | 19.1 | 8.3 | 17.0 | 55.3 |
| 1998 | 10.8 | 19.6 | 9.3 | 18.2 | 57.9 |
| 1999 | 11.0 | 19.0 | 9.6 | 18.0 | 57.7 |
| 2000 | 12.6 | 19.7 | 10.2 | 20.1 | 62.6 |
| 2001 | 11.9 | 20.9 | 8.9 | 16.9 | 58.6 |
| 2002 | 10.7 | 18.9 | 8.0 | 14.6 | 52.2 |
| 2003 | 8.7 | 12.5 | 6.3 | 13.1 | 40.5 |
| 2004 | 9.2 | 12.7 | 5.5 | 13.1 | 40.5 |
| 2005 | 9.3 | 13.3 | 5.8 | 13.5 | 41.9 |
| 2006 | 9.4 | 12.7 | 4.5 | 13.3 | 39.9 |
| 2007 | 9.6 | 12.9 | 4.4 | 12.5 | 39.4 |
| 2008 | 9.3 | 12.4 | 4.4 | 11.2 | 37.2 |
| 2009 | 8.0 | 10.4 | 6.0 | 9.8 | 34.1 |
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