1.  Overview the trade of IRELAND in goods current year until 202309

According to Dalian Infobank, in 202309, IRELAND's exports and imports of goods amounted to 28423.6499 million, and were down 11.07% comparing with the same period of last year. Among these, exports were down 12.02% at 16741.2691 million, and imports were down 9.68% at 11682.3808 million. And the corresponding trade surplus was 5058.8884 million and down 16.97%.

During the current year until 202309, IRELAND's total exports and imports of goods were 268782.8428 million and were down 2.31% comparing to the same period of last year. Among these, exports were 158639.4636 million and down 3.73%; imports were 110143.3793 million and down 0.19%. The total trade surplus was 48496.0843 million and down 10.92%.

If considering by country (region), UNITED STATES, UNITED KINGDOM, GERMANY, NETHERLANDS, BELGIUM were IRELAND's top five trading partners. During the current year until 202309, IRELAND's imports and exports to five countries/territories were 57980.4255 million, 41409.3651 million, 23746.6095 million, 19108.8693 million, 19068.2096 million. These values correspond to 21.57%, 15.41%, 8.83%, 7.11%, 7.09% of IRELAND's imports and exports, and, respectively, were down 11.81%, up 3.34%, down 22.02%, up 16.25%, up 9.58% comparing to the same period of last year.

Current year until 202309, IRELAND and the top five trade partners UNITED STATES, UNITED KINGDOM, GERMANY, BELGIUM, NETHERLANDS are the top five countries/territories that IRELAND exports to in terms of the total export amount. During the current year until 202309, IRELAND's exports to these five countries/territories were 42226.1122 million, 18851.2641 million, 16235.7984 million, 16033.5763 million, 12956.3732 million. These values correspond to 26.62%, 11.88%, 10.23%, 10.11%, 8.17% of IRELAND's exports and, respectively, were down 13.04%, up 8.95%, down 23.99%, up 11.01%, up 19.71% comparing with the same period of last year.

Current year until 202309, IRELAND's exports to top five countries/territories UNITED KINGDOM, UNITED STATES, FRANCE, GERMANY, SWITZERLAND are the top five countries/territories that IRELAND imports from in terms of the total export amount. During the current year until 202309, IRELAND's imports from these five countries/territories were 22558.1009 million, 15754.3132 million, 12978.9200 million, 7510.8111 million, 6446.3238 million. These values correspond to 20.48%, 14.30%, 11.78%, 6.82%, 5.85% of IRELAND's total imports and, respectively, were down 0.92%, down 8.33%, up 37.97%, down 17.39%, up 27.59% comparing with the same period of last year.

During the current year until 202309, the trade surplus of IRELAND was mainly from UNITED STATES, BELGIUM, GERMANY, NETHERLANDS, CANADA at 26471.7990 million, 12998.9431 million, 8724.9874 million, 6803.8771 million, 2969.1839 million, and down 15.62%, up 13.18%, down 28.89%, up 30.64%, up 21.62%. And the trade deficits were mainly from FRANCE, UNITED KINGDOM, SWITZERLAND, ISRAEL, PORTUGAL at 7216.2703 million, 3706.8368 million, 3272.7217 million, 2374.0381 million, 829.1323 million, and up 97.11%, down 32.17%, up 31.59%, down 23.69%, up 226.08%.

Current year until 202309, IRELAND's trade surplus or deficit with top five countries/territories During the current year until 202309,  commodities with hs2 codes, 30, 29, 84, 90, 85, were IRELAND's top five traded commodities. They correspond to the import and export values of 63627.4377 million, 50550.9068 million, 19424.4678 million, 18773.8344 million, 17025.4297 million, which were down 5.27%, down 3.79%, down 0.24%, up 9.56%, down 27.41% comparing with the same period of last year and account for 23.67%, 18.81%, 7.23%, 6.98%, 6.33% of IRELAND's total imports and exports.

During the current year until 202309, 30, 29, 90, 85, 84 were IRELAND's top five traded commodities, with total import and export values of 54340.1150 million, 34281.9354 million, 14859.0334 million, 7793.3808 million, 7608.1197 million. These values correspond to 34.25%, 21.61%, 9.37%, 4.91%, 4.80% of IRELAND's total exports and, respectively, were down 7.20%, down 7.52%, up 8.80%, down 38.76%, up 7.01% comparing to the same period of last year.

During the current year until 202309, 29, 88, 84, 30, 85 were IRELAND's top five traded commodities, with total import values of 16268.9714 million, 13224.1100 million, 11816.3482 million, 9287.3226 million, 9232.0489 million. These values correspond to 14.77%, 12.01%, 10.73%, 8.43%, 8.38% of IRELAND's total exports and, respectively, were up 5.16%, up 12.08%, down 4.40%, up 7.82%, down 13.94% comparing to the same period of last year.

2. Current year until 202309, IRELAND binational trade profile

According to Dalian Infobank, during the current year until 202309, IRELAND-China binational exports and imports of goods amounted to 13018.9461 million and were down 39.46% comparing with the same period of last year. Among these, exports from IRELAND to China were 7071.2017 million and down 35.51%, imports from China to IRELAND were 5947.7444 million and down 43.57%. The total binational trade surplus was 1123.4573 million and up 164.22%.

During the urrent year until 202309, commodities with hs2 code, 85, 29, 84, 30, 88, were binational trade's top five traded commodities. They correspond to import and export values of 4633.6990 million, 1257.4618 million, 1068.4625 million, 1056.4091 million, 883.7642 million and makes up 35.59%, 9.66%, 8.21%, 8.11%, 6.79% of the total binational imports and exports. These values were also down 47.57%, down 75.37%, down 30.12%, down 15.80%, up 76.32% comparing to the same period last year.

During the current year until 202309, 85, 30, 88, 90, 29 were the top five traded commodities exported to China from IRELAND, with export values of 3445.7026 million, 996.9128 million, 620.4670 million, 532.6706 million, 430.1257 million. These values account for 48.73%, 14.10%, 8.77%, 7.53%, 6.08% of IRELAND's total exports and were down 54.04%, down 15.47%, up 62.31%, up 60.45%, down 8.81% comparing to the same period of last year.

During the current year until 202309, 85, 84, 29, 88, 94 were IRELAND's top five traded commodities importing from China , with import values of 1187.9964 million, 947.0797 million, 827.3360 million, 263.2972 million, 258.9386 million. These values account for 19.97%, 15.92%, 13.91%, 4.43%, 4.35% of IRELAND's total imports and were down 11.39%, down 29.83%, down 82.14%, up 121.33%, down 34.72% comparing with the same period of last year.

3.Analysis of import and export trends

Data Source: Eurostat