Written answers
Tuesday, 22 November 2016
Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine
Food Industry Data
Pearse Doherty (Donegal, Sinn Fein)
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510. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the value of food imports and exports to and from Britain in each of the years from 2013 to 2016 to date, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [36261/16]
Michael Creed (Cork North West, Fine Gael)
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Details of the trade between the UK and Ireland from 2013 to date are outlined in the following table.
Ireland has a positive trade balance with Great Britain, with exports increasing from just over €3.89bn in 2013 to €4.36bn in 2015. The main increase was in the beef sector, which increased from €798m in 2013 to just under €1bn in 2015. Exports of dairy products saw a reduction from the €1bn posted in 2013 to €892m in 2015. Exports of pigmeat and poultry amounted to over €378m and €251m, respectively.
Imports from Great Britain to Ireland were valued at €3.25bn in 2015, increasing from €2.81bn in 2013. The main sectors in this regard are cereals, which came to €581m, and fruit & vegetables, where the value of imports came to €330m.
Ireland also has a positive trade balance with Northern Ireland, with exports of agri-food products in 2015 amounting to €749m compared with €567m worth of product coming in from Northern Ireland.
Exports | Imports | |||||||||||||||
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Great Britain | Jan-Dec 2013 | Jan-Dec 2014 | Jan-Dec 2015 | Jan-Sep 2016 | Jan-Dec 2013 | Jan-Dec 2014 | Jan-Dec 2015 | Jan-Sep 2016 | ||||||||
Ind | € 000 | Tonnes | € 000 | Tonnes | € 000 | Tonnes | € 000 | Tonnes | € 000 | Tonnes | € 000 | Tonnes | € 000 | Tonnes | € 000 | Tonnes |
Animal Foodstuffs | 134,426 | 152,813 | 133,761 | 136,123 | 157,396 | 167,203 | 111,792 | 114,960 | 144,360 | 235,478 | 145,345 | 245,980 | 167,876 | 253,673 | 121,598 | 205,561 |
Animal Oils & Fats | 15,314 | 18,883 | 9,740 | 13,595 | 10,390 | 16,527 | 7,852 | 11,845 | 6,340 | 2,564 | 4,230 | 1,858 | 5,228 | 2,894 | 4,757 | 3,614 |
Animal Skins & Furs | 45,026 | 21,907 | 44,178 | 19,544 | 37,817 | 18,712 | 24,408 | 14,009 | 90 | 56 | 261 | 58 | 161 | 158 | 13 | 3 |
Beef | 797,891 | 189,658 | 862,169 | 204,240 | 999,192 | 211,897 | 724,893 | 167,821 | 77,504 | 18,630 | 72,655 | 16,850 | 90,952 | 20,435 | 58,902 | 14,817 |
Beverages | 229,809 | 322,335 | 228,069 | 372,041 | 223,776 | 378,511 | 157,747 | 285,194 | 241,237 | 331,021 | 273,201 | 361,765 | 273,111 | 387,419 | 223,006 | 308,407 |
Cereal & cereal preparation | 201,206 | 117,174 | 247,117 | 140,985 | 268,925 | 153,280 | 192,138 | 110,684 | 510,384 | 344,371 | 514,287 | 372,699 | 581,176 | 407,956 | 430,648 | 384,152 |
Coffee, Tea, Cocoa & Spices | 179,125 | 33,314 | 200,578 | 34,825 | 240,210 | 40,937 | 170,884 | 32,078 | 228,012 | 47,214 | 239,360 | 47,065 | 285,584 | 53,958 | 201,351 | 41,254 |
Cotton | 109 | 35 | 5 | 1 | 41 | 11 | 78 | 33 | 61 | 18 | 33 | 9 | ||||
Crude Animal & Vegetable Material | 31,164 | 30,127 | 33,795 | 25,990 | 31,904 | 20,788 | 18,942 | 11,174 | 41,497 | 16,924 | 41,619 | 16,309 | 50,439 | 20,593 | 41,759 | 18,386 |
Dairy Produce | 1,036,176 | 438,789 | 923,564 | 276,327 | 892,249 | 269,911 | 581,708 | 200,910 | 283,052 | 133,133 | 317,620 | 182,150 | 295,966 | 169,920 | 204,796 | 118,784 |
Egg | 10,064 | 3,989 | 11,590 | 3,511 | 11,849 | 3,507 | 6,120 | 2,646 | 9,697 | 7,943 | 8,480 | 8,058 | 9,229 | 5,340 | 5,172 | 3,652 |
Fish | 47,213 | 18,463 | 48,228 | 18,105 | 48,605 | 19,072 | 42,196 | 14,251 | 108,504 | 22,042 | 128,994 | 26,125 | 149,557 | 28,885 | 111,793 | 22,666 |
Flax, Wool & Animal Hair | 4,065 | 3,078 | 5,893 | 3,530 | 9,313 | 5,265 | 4,186 | 3,087 | 4,563 | 3,495 | 4,966 | 3,051 | 3,734 | 2,462 | 1,247 | 656 |
Forestry | 90,103 | 377,550 | 115,244 | 371,383 | 115,649 | 375,688 | 97,945 | 326,025 | 26,899 | 192,277 | 28,973 | 163,415 | 37,463 | 193,524 | 25,723 | 160,887 |
Fruit & Vegetables | 171,871 | 91,410 | 186,824 | 102,948 | 193,270 | 103,423 | 142,092 | 85,673 | 311,861 | 263,920 | 305,841 | 251,713 | 330,533 | 284,563 | 251,495 | 225,482 |
Live Animals | 196,654 | 7,611 | 186,115 | 12,774 | 239,642 | 10,982 | 99,024 | 6,250 | 169,412 | 4,152 | 186,529 | 2,799 | 228,632 | 1,803 | 75,570 | 1,938 |
Miscellaneous Edible Products & Preparations | 101,656 | 62,888 | 97,872 | 68,305 | 110,800 | 71,281 | 76,746 | 47,747 | 206,852 | 92,070 | 212,670 | 97,353 | 245,284 | 117,691 | 172,492 | 76,367 |
Oilseeds & Oleaginous Fruit | 2,684 | 4,236 | 5,475 | 703 | 8,456 | 4,352 | 6,935 | 6,117 | 4,280 | 3,883 | 4,123 | 2,539 | 7,676 | 10,621 | 5,072 | 4,974 |
Other Meat & Meat Produce | 34,246 | 17,502 | 36,000 | 20,346 | 42,018 | 20,415 | 32,486 | 17,891 | 18,393 | 5,796 | 10,564 | 3,571 | 10,651 | 3,721 | 13,201 | 4,522 |
Pigmeat | 291,227 | 72,285 | 315,745 | 79,232 | 378,699 | 91,813 | 287,529 | 72,682 | 94,754 | 37,602 | 109,045 | 34,485 | 116,966 | 34,037 | 83,602 | 26,582 |
Poultry | 198,930 | 67,136 | 257,016 | 78,672 | 251,331 | 82,207 | 139,234 | 53,922 | 109,658 | 27,986 | 129,989 | 37,750 | 149,821 | 41,355 | 114,137 | 30,942 |
Sheepmeat | 29,913 | 9,660 | 28,364 | 8,897 | 49,475 | 12,456 | 37,837 | 9,644 | 18,928 | 4,074 | 18,718 | 4,270 | 21,794 | 4,526 | 14,630 | 2,867 |
Sugar, Sugar Preparation & Honey | 41,530 | 32,677 | 38,949 | 33,210 | 42,885 | 35,544 | 28,401 | 25,884 | 157,867 | 140,877 | 147,831 | 138,360 | 155,529 | 168,593 | 104,284 | 113,147 |
Vegetable Oils & Fats | 835 | 691 | 1,899 | 1,738 | 1,292 | 1,240 | 756 | 429 | 36,836 | 37,174 | 35,854 | 38,462 | 40,235 | 53,975 | 27,567 | 36,755 |
Grand Total | 3,891,128 | 2,094,176 | 4,018,184 | 2,027,023 | 4,365,253 | 2,115,044 | 2,991,856 | 1,620,927 | 2,811,021 | 1,972,694 | 2,941,232 | 2,056,716 | 3,257,658 | 2,268,119 | 2,292,849 | 1,806,426 |
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