{"id":656829,"date":"2026-10-16T19:16:22","date_gmt":"2026-10-16T19:16:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/656829\/"},"modified":"2026-10-16T19:16:22","modified_gmt":"2026-10-16T19:16:22","slug":"irish-exports-to-us-fall-by-e1-2-billion-cso-finds-the-irish-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/656829\/","title":{"rendered":"Irish exports to US fall by \u20ac1.2 billion, CSO finds \u2013 The Irish Times"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">The value of exported goods from Ireland to the United States fell by \u20ac1.2 billion between July and August this year, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/central-statistics-office\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/central-statistics-office\/\">Central Statistics Office<\/a> (CSO) has found. The total value of exports from Ireland were down \u20ac3 billion during the same period.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">While the US remained the State\u2019s largest country-to-country trading partner, Irish exports across the Atlantic have steadily declined in recent months and years. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Goods valuing \u20ac3.8 billion were exported from Ireland to the US in August, a notable decrease of 24 per cent from \u20ac5 billion exported in July, according to CSO research. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">While August is typically a lighter trading month, annual comparisons further demonstrate Ireland\u2019s falling trade with the US: \u20ac4.1 billion worth of goods were exported in August 2025 and \u20ac6.7 billion in the same month in 2024.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Elsewhere, the value of Ireland\u2019s total exports also appeared to tighten: down 15.87 per cent from \u20ac18.9 billion in July to \u20ac15.9 billion in August. Some \u20ac7 billion of August\u2019s exports went to Europe, with \u20ac1.8 billion going to Britain and \u20ac3.3 billion to the rest of the world. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Among the State\u2019s most valuable export categories in August were: chemical products (\u20ac8.6 billion), machinery and transport equipment (\u20ac3.4 billion) and \u201cmiscellaneous manufactured articles\u201d, which includes, but is not limited to, electrical equipment, travel goods, clothing and professional apparatuses (\u20ac1.7 billion).<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" class=\"c-image audio_image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/1792178182_184_1784803479672-9ae96ac7-c636-4bcb-998c-c0aedcc60931.jpeg\"\/>Microsoft president Brad Smith: Ireland is \u201cwell-positioned for future of AI\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Imports have also appeared to slip. A total of \u20ac12.9 billion worth of goods were imported into the State in August \u2013 \u20ac1.8 billion of which came from the US, a \u20ac200 million drop from the previous month, according to the CSO.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">A further \u20ac3.7 billion worth of imports came into the State from across Europe and \u20ac1.9 billion from Britain with \u20ac5.5 billion coming from the rest of the world. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Machinery and transport equipment was the most valuable import (\u20ac5.2 billion), with chemical products in second place at \u20ac3.4 billion and miscellaneous manufactured articles trailing behind at \u20ac1.4 billion.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The value of exported goods from Ireland to the United States fell by \u20ac1.2 billion between July and&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":656830,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[72,14787,113,61,60],"class_list":["post-656829","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-economy","tag-business","tag-central-statistics-office","tag-economy","tag-ie","tag-ireland"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/656829","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=656829"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/656829\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/656830"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=656829"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=656829"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=656829"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}