Written answers
Thursday, 21 February 2013
Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation
Trade Relations
Mary Lou McDonald (Dublin Central, Sinn Fein)
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To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation if he will detail in monetary value the volume of trade carried out between the north and south of Ireland by sector for the past five years. [9043/13]
Richard Bruton (Dublin North Central, Fine Gael)
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The Central Statistics Office (CSO) views the United Kingdom as a whole for services trade data. Therefore, it is not possible to provide separate Great Britain and Northern Ireland figures. However they can be separated for Goods Trade. The attached table details the data sought by the Deputy.
North South Trade
| Exports (€000) | Exports (€000) | Exports (€000) | Exports (€000) | Exports (€000) | Imports (€000) | Imports (€000) | Imports (€000) | Imports (€000) | Imports (€000) | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Category | SITC Code | Jan-Dec 2008 | Jan-Dec 2009 | Jan-Dec 2010 | Jan-Dec 2011 | Jan-Dec 2012 | Jan-Dec 2008 | Jan-Dec 2009 | Jan-Dec 2010 | Jan-Dec 2011 | Jan-Dec 2012 |
| Live animals other than animals of Division 03 | 0 | 14,604 | 17,729 | 32,850 | 46,586 | 59,411 | 20,501 | 7,046 | 8,176 | 12,580 | 11,593 |
| Meat & meat preparations | 1 | 159,527 | 117,289 | 106,238 | 122,320 | 151,349 | 47,272 | 50,223 | 52,607 | 58,842 | 64,877 |
| Dairy products & birds’ eggs | 2 | 60,603 | 47,926 | 61,829 | 94,971 | 74,582 | 117,284 | 82,867 | 99,779 | 128,356 | 123,475 |
| Fish, crustaceans, molluscs and preparations thereof | 3 | 7,746 | 5,395 | 6,091 | 5,304 | 7,307 | 5,961 | 8,018 | 8,906 | 10,325 | 11,150 |
| Cereals & cereal preparations | 4 | 51,904 | 32,789 | 35,107 | 70,741 | 64,268 | 47,458 | 36,225 | 44,371 | 46,743 | 49,550 |
| Vegetables & fruit | 5 | 28,936 | 31,676 | 33,552 | 39,527 | 45,111 | 19,311 | 35,560 | 36,723 | 34,143 | 34,519 |
| Sugar, sugar preparation & honey | 6 | 6,602 | 6,492 | 5,437 | 4,302 | 7,316 | 3,980 | 4,579 | 5,044 | 4,222 | 4,977 |
| Coffee, tea cocoa, spices & manufactures thereof | 7 | 10,190 | 8,508 | 7,919 | 9,098 | 11,174 | 977 | 2,742 | 1,439 | 2,958 | 2,683 |
| Feeding stuff for animals (excl. unmilled cereals) | 8 | 67,314 | 52,301 | 53,482 | 71,911 | 61,685 | 36,337 | 33,300 | 41,381 | 57,558 | 89,913 |
| Miscellaneous edible products & preparations | 9 | 8,087 | 10,018 | 13,464 | 14,318 | 14,654 | 3,241 | 3,529 | 3,724 | 5,702 | 4,298 |
| Beverages | 11 | 124,486 | 92,155 | 109,586 | 98,381 | 92,867 | 165,289 | 157,645 | 153,956 | 144,081 | 82,018 |
| Tobacco & tobacco manufactures | 12 | 17 | 8 | 57 | 53 | 61 | 2 | 5 | |||
| Hides, skins & furskins, raw | 21 | 340 | 154 | 274 | 1,052 | 1,684 | 532 | 201 | 109 | 6 | 60 |
| Oil seeds & oleaginous fruits | 22 | 3,387 | 943 | 1,275 | 1,726 | 1,629 | 5,964 | 7,605 | 9,389 | 8,526 | 9,278 |
| Crude rubber (include synthetic & reclaimed) | 23 | 345 | 259 | 287 | 158 | 115 | 552 | 6 | 3 | 3 | 18 |
| Cork & wood | 24 | 37,342 | 29,704 | 36,404 | 34,944 | 34,543 | 24,715 | 17,994 | 17,127 | 17,429 | 15,617 |
| Pulp & waste paper | 25 | 5 | 395 | 73 | 67 | 28 | 5 | 455 | |||
| Textile fibres & their wastes | 26 | 97 | 491 | 1,554 | 2,996 | 2,833 | 187 | 64 | 34 | 274 | 732 |
| Crude fertilisers & minerals, excl. coal, petroleum etc. | 27 | 7,709 | 8,538 | 5,856 | 7,262 | 7,661 | 44,810 | 24,763 | 29,167 | 25,755 | 24,437 |
| Metalliferous ores & metal scrap | 28 | 1,235 | 1,064 | 3,365 | 4,385 | 6,438 | 3,260 | 2,141 | 2,978 | 3,719 | 3,220 |
| Crude animal & vegetable materials nes | 29 | 1,024 | 2,612 | 1,931 | 1,936 | 2,371 | 2,102 | 2,400 | 2,767 | 2,241 | 1,651 |
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