Written answers

Tuesday, 27 September 2011

Department of Enterprise, Trade and Innovation

Export Trade

9:00 pm

Photo of Peter MathewsPeter Mathews (Dublin South, Fine Gael)
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Question 197: To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the proportion of exports that are exported to the UK, the eurozone, the USA and the rest of the world; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26329/11]

Photo of Richard BrutonRichard Bruton (Dublin North Central, Fine Gael)
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Details of our Exports, both Merchandise and Services, to the markets in question are set out in the tables. These are published regularly by the Central Statistics Office and, in respect of merchandise trade, data is provided on a monthly basis.

Ireland's Merchandise Exports in 2010

To:€ Million% of total exports
UK (GB + NI)13,80015%
USA20,76423%
Eurozone Countries35,10239%
All other countries19,55122%
Total Exports89,217

Ireland's Services Exports for 2009 (latest year for which country-specific data is available)

To:€ Million% of total exports
UK (GB + NI)13,45820%
USA4,2006%
Eurozone Countries **24,351*37%
All other countries ** 23,749*36%
18 Countries where country-specific data is unavailable**876*1%
Total Exports66,634

* Services Export data for a total of 18 countries, comprising four Eurozone members, (Austria, Cyprus, Greece and Malta), together with fourteen other countries, have been suppressed by the CSO for company confidentiality reasons (Generally where numbers of individual transactions are small and there is a risk that an individual company might be identified). This data is aggregated in a combined grouping above. Accordingly, the figures shown for the 'Eurozone Countries' and 'All other countries' groups above, do not include data in respect of the countries concerned. The total involved is €876m.

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