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Dáil Éireann debate -
Wednesday, 4 Mar 1959

Vol. 173 No. 4

Ceisteanna—Questions. Oral Answers. - Value of Imports and Exports.

5.

asked the Taoiseach if he will state in respect of the years 1957 and 1958 the total value of (a) imports from each country, and (b) exports to each country with which this country trades.

I propose, with the permission of the Ceann Comhairle, to circulate in the Official Report a statement showing for the years 1957 and 1958 the value of imports from and of total exports (including re-exports) to certain countries. The list of countries in the statement includes all countries with which this country's import or export trade in either year exceeded £50,000 in value.

Following is the statement:—

VALUE of Imports from or of Total Exports to certain countries in the years 1957 and 1958.

Country Origin for Imports; Destination for Exports

1957

1958

Imports

Total Exports

Imports

Total Exports

£

£

£

£

Great Britain

96,017,035

78,975,155

103,400,004

79,517,076

The Six Counties

8,565,733

22,258,757

8,415,776

21,043,058

Channel Islands

5,913

123,822

93,367

50,112

Iceland

84,919

3,338

94,015

17,338

Belgium

3,635,138

1,597,421

3,491,540

1,021,157

Denmark

1,454,270

88,694

1,369,249

71,161

Norway

590,756

81,373

376,332

314,768

Luxembourg

119,358

132,511

80

Germany (Federal Republic)

7,016,817

3,304,761

7,934,631

2,839,253

Austria

344,722

28,401

308,432

42,286

France

3,116,193

1,883,621

3,157,748

997,675

Netherlands

4,613,711

1,015,419

5,666,380

658,876

Sweden

2,860,724

590,432

2,473,956

458,003

Switzerland

577,106

95,311

728,128

91,249

Greece

324,508

56,954

393,806

83,113

Italy

1,445,714

906,360

1,678,322

543,137

Portugal

444,692

229,106

391,218

101,400

Turkey

193,825

1,155

268,871

1,855

Spain

840,849

1,342,933

855,915

1,047,610

Malta and Gozo

124

76,312

333

52,822

Hungary

57,354

108,529

15,058

Poland

34,829

810

805,015

144,366

Czechoslovakia

376,379

176,832

377,394

94,276

U.S.S.R.

302,096

192,741

Germany, Eastern

547,999

714,112

Finland

2,562,570

259,299

2,367,653

60,077

Yugoslavia

17,503

42,272

69,025

Saudi Arabia

110

7,366

41

77,851

Iran

104,435

24,303

136,777

28,946

Israel

334,052

17,573

388,924

22,969

Bahrein

477,792

1,167

850,317

339

Kuwait

6

56,099

1,830

Cyprus

89,960

28,914

116,695

71,417

Burma

18,306

58,745

11,978

90,694

Ceylon

623,036

208,920

586,742

206,231

India

6,035,570

281,556

3,496,560

19,746

Pakistan

729,919

3,738

840,951

2,397

China

151,525

1,620

264,495

753

Indonesia

351,385

2,585

227,042

35,039

Japan

1,445,296

169,549

2,104,446

60,274

Philippines

76,530

88,456

107,511

88,558

Thailand (Siam)

21,937

84,951

15,737

40,435

Singapore

5,823

329,861

21,870

182,189

Federation of Malaya

784,188

221,000

783,513

25,498

British Borneo

234,151

178

196,796

265

Hong Kong

39,096

29,535

127,042

20,455

Egypt

56,593

19,475

106,150

38,636

Sudan

33,044

5,214

57,131

994

Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland

184,107

20,985

62,632

10,230

Union of South Africa

585,748

72,535

605,981

76,933

Canary Islands

485,382

199,926

521,406

179,922

Ghana*

944,156

22,018

French West Africa

128,527

9,214

61,961

10,279

Algeria

466,533

681,000

378,175

14,054

Morocco

533,747

26,622

861,555

7,930

Tunisia

219,006

9,552

100,637

7,510

Belgian Congo and Ruanda-Urundi

224,529

175

173,098

763

Portuguese East Africa

77,786

343

85,291

191

British West Africa*

1,388,898

48,490

474,374

41,709

British East Africa

418,271

29,829

479,630

106,561

United States of America

10,670,565

4,037,752

13,838,154

7,413,626

Canada

3,751,215

803,706

5,888,788

842,294

Cuba

556,234

9,701

1,115,012

9,337

Mexico

148,118

1,318

235,755

1,157

Dominican Republic

1,477,853

141

75

Dutch West Indies

745,924

360

652,795

1,061

British West Indies

1,366,684

388,073

979,253

421,798

Argentina

760,271

7,629

3,291,440

2,009

Brazil

139,474

21,977

339,333

8,885

Chile

86,649

1,449

91,351

2,316

Peru

350,698

13,177

261,793

6,615

Uruguay

17,240

546

11,310

62,400

Venezuela

294,801

31,482

183,348

91,370

Australia

3,931,818

92,887

2,394,122

91,908

New Zealand

843,785

50,630

868,471

73,185

* 1957 British West Africa includes Ghana.

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