Trade Statistics.

Tuesday, 10 February 2004

Ceisteanna (99)

Bernard J. Durkan

Ceist:

171 Mr. Durkan asked the Taoiseach the extent to which imports and exports between this country and low wage economies have developed in the past five years; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3994/04]

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Freagraí scríofa

Minister of State at the Department of the Taoiseach (Ms Hanafin)

The information requested by the Deputy is set out in the following tables. The analysis provided does not cover all countries. The classification of low, medium and high-income countries used is based on an analysis done by the World Bank, http://www.worldbank.org/depweb/, and refers to the year 1998. In the case of imports, the country of consignment is used which is not necessarily the country of origin of the goods.

€(000)

		1998	1999	2000	2001	2002	Jan-Nov 2003
Income Rank	Consign	Exports	Imports	Exports	Imports	Exports	Imports	Exports	Imports	Exports	Imports	Exports	Imports
1. Low	India	48,361	70,569	77,745	98,809	109,730	118,633	107,045	130,737	131,015	140,022	86,673	110,263
	Indonesia	12,984	63,921	43,145	54,131	88,173	84,339	79,217	80,757	50,845	83,373	43,803	50,116
	Nigeria	78,127	1,910	84,657	3,024	97,293	2,158	126,989	898	137,145	794	109,265	557
	Guinea	496	94,554	360	83,711	620	90,645	1,038	104,575	845	83,435	769	52,325
	Pakistan	29,418	15,201	41,833	16,456	64,697	21,639	18,984	30,138	18,726	37,121	16,109	26,759
	Ghana	11,507	46,725	20,883	26,718	19,072	29,933	20,454	27,339	15,344	29,280	15,854	21,959
	Vietnam	8,988	6,785	7,322	12,257	13,363	20,212	15,064	27,967	16,225	26,719	14,746	17,637
	Senegal	14,342	91	21,125	74	25,988	205	40,692	146	38,924	66	32,711	149
	Ukraine	17,861	2,995	18,820	2,891	30,670	6,201	31,706	4,199	22,414	1,062	19,992	642
	Kenya	12,370	13,278	10,219	14,175	13,192	13,038	11,205	12,678	17,225	13,459	9,314	10,438
	Bangladesh	2,712	8,068	1,594	12,093	1,201	17,662	3,053	27,267	1,781	29,747	476	23,754
	Ivory Coast	8,906	19,942	6,020	13,858	6,491	12,949	7,838	12,453	7,816	6,711	6,240	10,242
	Cameroon	7,223	4,768	5,842	5,242	6,982	13,337	7,144	15,473	6,033	9,930	6,016	14,611
	Sudan	5,740	18	7,270	711	7,791	1,014	13,750	795	14,102	1,153	18,472	1,152
	Cambodia	109	4,391	209	6,493	353	14,152	175	13,973	370	16,219	684	8,921
	Zimbabwe	7,483	3,895	7,464	4,258	5,599	3,512	6,733	2,737	3,296	597	2,683	559
	Ethiopia	7,037	22	5,038	34	7,438	5	10,358	5	10,121	14	7,749	125
	Tanzania	2,382	1,933	4,487	3,767	6,525	599	5,309	3,737	7,904	199	5,991	127
	Congo			3,084	286	5,639	314	7,276	369	9,746	239	8,070	703
	Yemen	4,268	631	4,919	136	7,093	43	9,624	109	3,930	62	2,703	4
	Benin	2,379	239	3,874	1,224	5,589	723	7,451	352	5,271	1	3,336	308
	Congo (Dem Rep)	6,247	5	4,772	87	3,206	23	3,405	0	5,056		7,365
	Mali	460	166	1,121	731	3,408	205	7,504	227	12,860	9	3,033	0
	Sierra Leone	5,117	1,968	3,054	1,121	4,610	781	4,612	1,632	3,758	807	1,298	392
	Uganda	6,221	1,534	3,648	475	3,565	135	4,127	415	4,691	123	3,846	55
1. Low Total	300,738	363,609	388,505	362,762	538,288	452,457	550,753	498,978	545,443	481,142	427,198	351,798

Note: Only the top 25 countries (based on sum of imports and exports over the entire time period shown) listed under each income rank.

€(000)

		1998	1999	2000	2001	2002	Jan-Nov 2003
Income Rank	Consign	Exports	Imports	Exports	Imports	Exports	Imports	Exports	Imports	Exports	Imports	Exports	Imports
2. Medium	Malaysia	324,268	432,363	824,183	567,979	753,552	595,098	1,140,342	519,167	764,555	461,129	525,705	290,150
	China	75,346	238,895	119,022	287,939	166,511	442,999	338,468	684,331	537,644	877,837	503,842	1,273,670
	Philippines	288,691	169,129	424,031	197,352	691,787	211,945	769,453	214,387	342,321	215,052	190,189	164,876
	Mexico	164,028	30,464	173,373	46,393	254,873	110,941	552,431	212,067	448,566	211,686	487,808	159,991
	South Africa	343,617	50,520	369,838	61,579	391,646	117,987	384,975	94,420	274,983	97,593	251,664	127,116
	Turkey	176,345	71,797	215,403	84,793	387,020	109,021	310,411	123,275	325,908	163,338	283,463	190,326
	Poland	243,425	65,367	254,021	82,181	361,020	101,884	319,093	132,047	282,096	126,399	230,691	124,345
	Hungary	93,583	230,595	162,586	213,468	224,356	282,377	169,208	367,190	143,646	119,788	123,287	83,938
	Saudi Arabia	287,904	49,582	329,811	8,022	357,156	6,153	388,228	3,796	364,426	28,507	254,504	6,200
	Thailand	82,694	164,131	96,574	131,809	141,117	216,006	144,295	300,581	112,104	228,238	133,549	224,427
	Czech Republic	135,272	47,277	203,169	68,355	346,546	119,982	258,341	122,892	197,227	156,696	155,548	147,687
	Brazil	145,687	30,042	143,561	82,492	206,012	110,071	225,755	107,592	124,772	122,010	129,815	139,167
	Russia	245,897	14,040	257,699	12,234	177,634	8,591	240,551	31,809	254,856	31,072	232,376	28,717
	Egypt	191,402	7,491	231,763	9,495	243,009	14,739	120,513	30,263	86,290	15,235	50,060	19,685
	Morocco	29,613	37,902	61,621	28,832	87,350	36,582	120,711	53,737	112,972	29,887	101,307	25,635
	Argentina	47,355	4,792	57,299	16,707	48,801	33,365	57,846	28,887	26,345	44,744	20,637	39,547
	Romania	27,554	5,395	27,293	3,558	74,605	19,537	51,454	75,526	55,715	20,565	45,261	17,408
	Chile	31,952	9,142	35,852	16,255	36,958	22,439	37,728	27,936	36,260	31,843	39,893	29,591
	Costa Rica	13,114	10,001	48,475	20,337	49,616	3,118	118,513	5,783	8,604	30,934	7,137	22,348
	Croatia	13,458	19,830	18,423	25,118	33,741	37,956	27,888	27,293	34,712	37,677	32,148	19,052
	Lebanon	43,162	3,408	61,797	1,203	64,865	970	44,027	2,194	47,141	3,872	36,016	1,911
	Latvia	9,853	13,550	10,768	44,149	16,675	39,913	19,018	28,809	15,986	29,458	18,930	42,772
	Slovakia	18,775	11,091	28,366	12,443	47,366	14,621	38,092	12,172	39,753	15,632	33,393	15,127
	Estonia	15,554	3,573	9,851	6,062	25,669	16,958	41,338	17,120	31,613	23,465	23,127	35,394
	North Korea	97,356	15,259	4,950	24,778	18,885	31,108	15,887	22,671	118	2,452	2	147
2. Medium Total	3,145,905	1,735,636	4,169,729	2,053,533	5,206,770	2,704,361	5,934,566	3,245,945	4,668,613	3,125,109	3,910,352	3,229,227

Only the top 25 countries (based on sum of imports and exports over the entire time period shown) listed under each income rank.

€(000)

		1998	1999	2000	2001	2002	Jan-Nov 2003
Income Rank	Consign	Exports	Imports	Exports	Imports	Exports	Imports	Exports	Imports	Exports	Imports	Exports	Imports
3. High	Great Britain	11,441,274	13,639,435	13,247,558	15,331,573	17,123,851	19,008,683	20,793,808	21,493,713	20,872,604	22,112,632	12,294,708	14,452,299
	USA	7,742,611	5,999,612	10,336,842	6,681,824	14,227,805	8,353,195	15,694,396	7,923,385	16,489,871	7,934,581	15,671,332	6,225,360
	Germany	8,326,405	2,483,115	8,013,810	2,782,536	9,428,588	3,356,369	11,682,508	3,612,006	6,738,005	3,768,877	6,200,460	3,417,549
	France	4,823,791	1,502,867	5,646,394	1,774,611	6,357,411	2,515,974	5,541,568	2,684,814	4,689,655	2,126,737	4,556,617	1,561,965
	Belgium			3,439,825	705,515	4,115,540	1,064,865	4,446,178	1,048,263	13,547,368	1,001,863	9,540,307	885,753
	Netherlands	3,225,315	1,360,511	4,190,297	1,546,157	4,705,719	2,059,122	4,263,614	2,156,171	3,517,523	2,089,751	3,898,826	1,827,663
	Japan	1,486,713	2,200,833	1,958,960	2,033,687	3,122,860	2,128,632	3,261,074	1,481,526	2,628,796	1,350,541	1,903,304	1,405,673
	Italy	1,943,085	678,644	2,533,052	808,667	3,319,427	1,191,353	3,311,898	1,199,347	3,599,891	908,100	3,404,969	840,104
	Northern Ireland	1,513,032	1,291,628	1,515,098	1,374,708	1,785,984	1,479,755	1,864,520	1,489,040	1,611,059	1,215,207	1,291,646	1,165,513
	Switzerland	1,156,249	328,663	1,618,754	345,735	2,033,164	406,056	2,705,698	534,123	3,115,546	555,914	2,444,485	624,038
	Spain	1,541,917	430,867	1,842,740	498,030	2,126,907	721,360	2,297,985	612,169	2,240,766	600,990	2,126,318	449,861
	Singapore	375,884	2,043,395	482,055	1,717,021	506,354	1,961,097	641,308	1,323,374	738,702	954,106	675,767	939,804
	Sweden	1,091,177	354,645	1,096,185	419,608	1,336,973	553,898	1,355,024	446,660	1,201,356	379,942	1,097,978	353,223
	Norway	560,382	450,273	595,917	534,222	614,928	1,062,228	587,172	951,702	515,466	804,185	485,057	974,475
	South Korea	362,694	490,692	361,107	519,319	1,045,817	774,233	695,906	685,442	638,964	676,484	470,595	533,953
	Hong Kong	295,114	490,713	333,283	650,003	617,406	909,091	670,201	716,725	535,273	739,525	635,569	462,201
	Denmark	587,728	265,441	614,761	358,026	621,906	670,867	596,605	672,223	545,199	684,567	452,973	770,162
	Canada	346,157	369,665	330,385	243,163	394,541	307,486	592,502	435,033	510,158	400,739	443,280	413,329
	Belgium & Luxembourg	3,647,641	535,360
	Australia	449,106	40,948	578,868	58,688	580,737	71,739	834,838	92,077	626,235	93,448	596,885	88,345
	Finland	313,237	256,439	531,382	253,838	416,087	310,729	413,573	299,255	308,945	366,541	270,565	209,568
	Austria	326,282	79,499	412,800	106,281	468,029	126,555	414,144	158,845	338,423	218,907	298,681	148,273
	Israel	231,073	167,628	284,527	267,594	408,812	309,729	344,553	247,317	240,404	91,685	185,745	79,112
	Portugal	233,576	86,548	250,009	91,764	256,903	109,917	309,889	129,116	362,192	134,260	274,031	97,797
	Greece	157,701	20,321	240,255	22,580	297,400	51,838	329,061	41,264	330,099	41,700	287,021	38,657
3. High Total	52,178,144	35,567,742	60,454,864	39,125,150	75,913,149	49,504,771	83,648,023	50,433,590	85,942,500	49,251,282	69,507,119	37,964,677

Only the top 25 countries (based on sum of imports and exports over the entire time period shown) listed under each income rank.

Question No. 172 answered orally with Question No. 1.