This morning.
The Central Statistics Office announces:
Ireland exported €123 billion of goods in 2017 and imported €79 billion. We exported €17 billion more to the USA than we imported in 2017.
The UK was our largest import partner in 2017 at €18.8 billion and was also our largest partner for both exports (€4.6 bn) and imports (€3.7bn) of food and drinks.
In total, Ireland exported €12.3 billion and imported €7.7 billion of food and drinks in 2017.
We imported 20kg of bananas, 13kg of apples, 10kg of onions and 7kg of carrots for every person in Ireland.
Ireland’s trade in goods in 2017 (CSO)
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How are we importing so many potatoes, carrots etc?
the mineral water figure is bad too – 70 million litres of imported *water*? FFS.
The mineral water leapt out at me too – we should triple the tax on bottled water (imported or otherwise), reign in this madness somewhat.
Northern Ireland. That’s largely the reason. The CSO need to try and strip NI out to give a better picture. Might be possible after Brexit..!!!
Thanks, at least that makes sense.
Why are people in the north importing so much water?
They use it all up in the Piss Process.
Jaysus,the twice in a week you’ve made me laugh.
He’s like that. Creeps up on you with a slow haiku, a witty poem about a crumpled tayto packet and the fallacy of brexit (?), a couple of well executed puns and then BAM, you bffs and down the pub every weekend debating whether cricket or rounders is better craic.
let’s not forget the broadsheet comment section reimagined as the American civil war
broadsheet’s finest moment, imo
Would they be sweet potatoes?
I can’t understand how we’re importing so many potatoes either. It’s possibly a lot of out-of-season importing, but that’s just shocking.
93,000 tonnes of bananas imported?
I wonder how many bananas we exported?
Well we arethe Banana Republic after all.
*smug laughter*
Give that boy a slice of milk – we indeed export more bananas than any country in Europe.
Quite a lot. There was a tax ruling a number of years ago that, because green bananas have to be stored in a heated warehouse it counted as manufacturing for tax and therefore profits attracted the lower rate of tax. Most of the spuds are coming in from NI, being turned into chips and sent back to the uk.
We export a lot of botox. Replace that t with a double l and we export that too.
What exactly is the 33 odd Billion of exports to the USA consist of….;;?