Ireland | Imports and Exports | World | Organic chemicals | Value (US$) and Value Growth, YoY (%) | 2012 - 2023
The value of exports of commodity group 29 "Organic chemicals" from Ireland totalled $ 44 billion in 2023. Sales of commodity group 29 from Ireland decreased by 3.87% in value terms compared to 2022. exports of commodity group 29 "Organic chemicals" decreased by $ 1.79 billion (cumulative exports of commodity group 29 from Ireland amounted $46 billion in 2022)
Exports of commodity group 29 "Organic chemicals" amounted to 20% of total exports from Ireland (cumulative merchandise exports from Ireland totalled $ 212 billion in 2023). The share of commodity group 29 in total exports from Ireland decreased by 0.186 p.p. compared to 2022 (it was 21% in 2022 and cumulative exports from Ireland were equal to $ 219 billion).
Where does Ireland export Organic chemicals?
Top export destinations of "Organic chemicals" from Ireland in 2023:
- USA with a share of 43% (19.3 billion US$)
- Germany with a share of 15.8% (7.08 billion US$)
- Belgium with a share of 10.8% (4.82 billion US$)
- United Kingdom with a share of 10.7% (4.81 billion US$)
- Italy with a share of 6.69% (2.98 billion US$)
- Canada with a share of 3.64% (1.62 billion US$)
- Portugal with a share of 2.46% (1.09 billion US$)
- Switzerland with a share of 1.52% (678 million US$)
- China with a share of 1.39% (620 million US$)
- France with a share of 1.13% (507 million US$)
Exports structure of 29 - Organic chemicals - from Ireland in 2023 represented by the following main commodity groups:
- 54% (24 billion US$): 2933 - Heterocyclic compounds with nitrogen hetero-atom(s) only
- 27% (12.4 billion US$): 2937 - Hormones, prostaglandins, thromboxanes and leukotrienes, natural or reproduced by synthesis; derivatives and structural analogues thereof, including chain modified polypeptides, used primarily as hormones
- 9.77% (4.35 billion US$): 2934 - Nucleic acids and their salts, whether or not chemically defined; other heterocyclic compounds
- 4.83% (2.15 billion US$): 2935 - Sulphonamides
- 0.716% (319 million US$): 2922 - Oxygen-function amino-compounds
- 0.595% (265 million US$): 2932 - Heterocyclic compounds with oxygen hetero-atom(s) only
- 0.263% (117 million US$): 2924 - Carboxyamide-function compounds; amide-function compounds of carbonic acid
- 0.218% (97 million US$): 2907 - Phenols; phenol-alcohols
- 0.19% (84 million US$): 2940 - Sugars, chemically pure, other than sucrose, lactose, maltose, glucose and fructose; sugar ethers, sugar acetals and sugar esters, and their salts, other than products of heading 29.37, 29.38 or 29.39.
- 0.163% (72 million US$): 2918 - Carboxylic acids with additional oxygen function and their anhydrides, halides, peroxides and peroxyacids; their halogenated, sulphonated, nitrated or nitrosated derivatives
The value of imports of commodity group 29 "Organic chemicals" to Ireland totalled $ 21 billion in 2023. Sales of commodity group 29 to Ireland went up by 13.2% compared to 2022: imports of commodity group 29 "Organic chemicals" went up by $ 2.53 billion (the value of imports of commodity group 29 to Ireland was equal to $19.1 billion in 2022)
Imports of commodity group 29 "Organic chemicals" accounted for 14.4% of total import flow to Ireland (in 2023, total imports to Ireland amounted to $ 150 billion). The share of commodity group 29 in total imports to Ireland increased by 1.51 p.p. compared to 2022 (it was 12.8% in 2022 and cumulative imports to Ireland were equal to $ 148 billion).
Where does Ireland import Organic chemicals from?
Top trading partners (import of "Organic chemicals") of Ireland in 2023:
- Switzerland with a share of 32% (7.06 billion US$)
- France with a share of 14.5% (3.14 billion US$)
- United Kingdom with a share of 14.1% (3.07 billion US$)
- China with a share of 12.1% (2.64 billion US$)
- USA with a share of 4.61% (1 billion US$)
- Austria with a share of 3.48% (756 million US$)
- Mexico with a share of 3.4% (737 million US$)
- Spain with a share of 3.34% (725 million US$)
- Germany with a share of 1.82% (395 million US$)
- Singapore with a share of 1.58% (344 million US$)
Imports structure of 29 - Organic chemicals - to Ireland in 2023 represented by the following main commodity groups:
- 81% (17.6 billion US$): 2933 - Heterocyclic compounds with nitrogen hetero-atom(s) only
- 6.5% (1.41 billion US$): 2934 - Nucleic acids and their salts, whether or not chemically defined; other heterocyclic compounds
- 3.37% (732 million US$): 2924 - Carboxyamide-function compounds; amide-function compounds of carbonic acid
- 1.85% (402 million US$): 2922 - Oxygen-function amino-compounds
- 1.06% (230 million US$): 2932 - Heterocyclic compounds with oxygen hetero-atom(s) only
- 0.763% (165 million US$): 2935 - Sulphonamides
- 0.746% (161 million US$): 2918 - Carboxylic acids with additional oxygen function and their anhydrides, halides, peroxides and peroxyacids; their halogenated, sulphonated, nitrated or nitrosated derivatives
- 0.486% (105 million US$): 2941 - Antibiotics
- 0.408% (88 million US$): 2939 - Alkaloids; natural or reproduced by synthesis, and their salts, ethers, esters and other derivatives
- 0.379% (82 million US$): 2905 - Acyclic alcohols and their halogenated, sulphonated, nitrated or nitrosated derivatives
