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International Trade.

Dáil Éireann Debate, Tuesday - 23 March 2004

Tuesday, 23 March 2004

Questions (92)

Bernard J. Durkan

Question:

86 Mr. Durkan asked the Taoiseach the full extent of the growth of Irish exports in the past five years [8206/04]

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The data requested by the Deputy are presented in the table following. Table 1 shows the total value of exports which increased from €57,321.8 million in 1998 to €82,125.5 million in 2003. Tables 2 and 3 show annual merchandise export data for the years 1998 to 2002 and for the period January to November 2003 broken down by major geographical region and identifying, in particular, the top ten commodity groupings for the period. November 2003 is the latest month for which detailed data are available. Details for December 2003 will be available towards the end of March 2004.

Table 1 — Total Exports

1998

1999

2000

2001

2002

2003

€(000)

€(000)

€(000)

€(000)

€(000)

€(000)

Total

57,321,815

66,956,219

83,888,932

92,689,909

93,610,346

82,125,500

Table 2 — Exports by major geographic area

1998

1999

2000

2001

2002

Jan-Nov 2003

€(000)

€(000)

€(000)

€(000)

€(000)

€(000)

UK

12,920,617

14,690,171

18,869,835

22,629,829

22,453,776

13,565,387

Other EU

26,067,093

28,768,665

33,416,681

34,946,145

37,443,845

32,447,729

USA and Canada

8,088,768

10,667,226

14,622,342

16,286,893

17,000,413

16,115,544

Rest of the world

10,245,337

12,830,157

16,980,074

18,827,042

16,712,312

13,196,887

Total

57,321,815

66,956,219

83,888,932

92,689,909

93,610,346

75,325,547

Table 3 — Exports by top 10 commodity groupings

1998

1999

2000

2001

2002

Jan-Nov 2003

€(000)

€(000)

€(000)

€(000)

€(000)

€(000)

Office machines & automatic data processing machines

12,940,208

15,152,684

19,616,841

21,034,504

17,309,437

13,222,389

Organic chemicals

9,946,284

11,394,108

16,897,510

17,117,882

17,378,629

14,247,985

Medical & pharmaceutical products

4,212,398

4,815,059

5,311,737

8,975,123

15,669,895

12,407,618

Electrical machinery, apparatus & appliances nes & parts

4,212,243

5,135,805

7,915,994

10,164,509

10,564,769

4,711,309

Miscellaneous manufactured articles nes

4,231,432

5,208,985

6,121,857

6,002,669

5,034,547

4,420,245

Telecommunications & sound equipment

2,150,444

3,582,145

3,736,538

3,657,620

2,635,458

1,196,700

Essential oils, perfume materials; toilet & cleansing preps

2,012,419

2,448,692

2,355,173

3,140,932

3,160,548

3,754,563

Chemical materials & products nes

1,414,116

1,862,762

1,940,871

2,295,191

2,223,569

2,201,768

Professional, scientific & controlling apparatus nes

1,394,955

1,387,281

1,703,242

1,881,812

2,061,755

3,004,397

Meat & meat preparations

1,481,651

1,770,558

1,752,217

1,594,127

1,744,252

1,672,990

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