Written answers
Thursday, 5 March 2020
Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine
Agrifood Sector
Brendan Smith (Cavan-Monaghan, Fianna Fail)
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969. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the latest data on the value of trade with the UK for agrifood products; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3698/20]
Michael Creed (Cork North West, Fine Gael)
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The United Kingdom (Great Britain & Northern Ireland) is Ireland’s largest trading partner with 37.7% of total agrifood sector goods exported to the UK and 46.3% of agrifood goods imported from the UK in 2019.
In 2018, total agrifood exports to the UK were €5.6 billion (40.7%), while imports totalled €4.5 billion, (45.8%) giving Ireland a trade surplus with the United Kingdom of approximately €1.1 billion in agrifood goods.
Preliminary figures for 2019 indicate that exports to the UK decreased slightly to €5.47 billion in 2019, while imports from the UK increased to €4.65 billion, giving Ireland a trade surplus with the United Kingdom of approximately €820 million. Ireland’s top exports to the United Kingdom in 2019 were dairy products and beef, each of which accounted for over €1 billion in exports to the country.
The largest imports from the UK in 2019 were cereal and cereal preparations worth €730 million, dairy products at €607 million and beverages at €437 million.
The following table provide a full breakdown of trade with the UK during the period 2018 & 2019 in respect of both value and volume of goods based on CSO data. The 2019 data is provisional with final 2019 data available in mid-March.
Jan-Dec 2018 | Jan-Dec 2019 | |||||||
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Imports from United Kingdom | Imports | Imports | ||||||
Agrifood category | €000 | Tonnes | €000 | Tonnes | % Total value imports 2018 | % Total value imports 2019 | ||
Cereal & cereal preparation | 702,492 | 1,057,944 | 729,935 | 953,089 | 16% | 22% | 16% | 21% |
Dairy Produce | 631,579 | 950,817 | 607,372 | 904,854 | 14% | 20% | 13% | 20% |
Beverages | 407,390 | 523,541 | 437,127 | 544,219 | 9% | 11% | 9% | 12% |
Coffee, Tea, Cocoa & Spices | 323,021 | 68,536 | 355,299 | 79,962 | 7% | 1% | 8% | 2% |
Miscellaneous Edible Products & Preparations | 327,911 | 137,482 | 334,220 | 146,567 | 7% | 3% | 7% | 3% |
Animal Foodstuffs | 313,183 | 736,474 | 280,226 | 611,409 | 7% | 15% | 6% | 13% |
Fruit & Vegetables Based Products | 253,970 | 176,416 | 260,338 | 189,671 | 6% | 4% | 6% | 4% |
Live Animals | 180,041 | 2,987 | 253,910 | 3,948 | 4% | 0% | 5% | 0% |
Fruit & Vegetables | 198,545 | 225,890 | 238,065 | 213,954 | 4% | 5% | 5% | 5% |
Fish | 179,273 | 50,399 | 185,482 | 48,969 | 4% | 1% | 4% | 1% |
Poultry | 169,304 | 48,627 | 178,043 | 51,317 | 4% | 1% | 4% | 1% |
Pigmeat | 160,705 | 48,453 | 158,696 | 51,583 | 4% | 1% | 3% | 1% |
Sugar, Sugar Preparation & Honey | 146,783 | 177,638 | 134,963 | 145,298 | 3% | 4% | 3% | 3% |
Beef | 120,904 | 61,977 | 111,733 | 26,145 | 3% | 1% | 2% | 1% |
Forestry | 97,799 | 338,909 | 103,576 | 334,004 | 2% | 7% | 2% | 7% |
Crude Animal & Vegetable Material | 67,507 | 33,668 | 72,784 | 48,585 | 2% | 1% | 2% | 1% |
Wood Based Products | 50,548 | 37,591 | 60,178 | 48,535 | 1% | 1% | 1% | 1% |
Vegetable Oils & Fats | 51,092 | 108,589 | 49,631 | 78,147 | 1% | 2% | 1% | 2% |
Sheepmeat | 25,994 | 4,930 | 32,661 | 6,373 | 1% | 0% | 1% | 0% |
Oilseeds & Oleaginous Fruit | 15,494 | 37,769 | 15,751 | 35,425 | 0% | 1% | 0% | 1% |
Other Meat & Meat Produce | 9,911 | 4,956 | 14,470 | 6,395 | 0% | 0% | 0% | 0% |
Egg | 12,320 | 8,987 | 12,796 | 10,598 | 0% | 0% | 0% | 0% |
Animal Oils & Fats | 11,988 | 12,665 | 10,439 | 12,947 | 0% | 0% | 0% | 0% |
Flax, Wool & Animal Hair | 5,889 | 1,233 | 6,738 | 3,027 | 0% | 0% | 0% | 0% |
Animal Skins & Furs | 541 | 21 | 888 | 209 | 0% | 0% | 0% | 0% |
Cotton | 34 | 8 | 178 | 113 | 0% | 0% | 0% | 0% |
Grand Total | 4,464,216 | 4,856,508 | 4,645,498 | 4,555,344 |
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