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How dependent is Ireland on Italy?

In 2024, Italy sold $3.7 billion to Ireland, 2.6% of its imports, ranking 8th among its suppliers. Its share was 1.8% in 2019 and 2.5% in 1995. In 5 products it sells more than 50% of what Ireland buys of them (in 4, more than 75%); what Ireland buys from Italy in those products (dominated value) adds up to $692 million, 0.5% of its imports.

Summary

Share of its imports
2.6%
Value imported
$3.7billion
Rank among its suppliers
8th
Products where it sells over 50%
5
Products where it sells over 75%
4
Dominated value
$692million
Share of total imports
0.5%

Trend

Trend in shares

Italy went from 2.5% to 2.6% of what Ireland buys

Share (%)

  • Italy 2.6%

Source: CEPII BACI

Show the numbers
YearValue (USD millions)ShareRank
19957812.5%8
19969452.5%9
19978632%9
19989362.1%8
19991,1242.3%8
20001,6183.1%8
20011,2662.4%7
20021,2002.2%8
20031,3082.3%9
20041,4682.2%10
20051,5982.1%10
20061,9472.4%9
20072,0962.3%8
20081,8922.2%9
20091,1661.8%10
20101,0771.7%10
20111,1641.6%9
20121,1291.5%10
20131,2361.6%9
20141,3311.6%11
20151,3421.7%12
20161,7332.2%8
20172,0632.3%7
20181,9451.9%8
20191,7681.8%9
20202,1242.2%9
20212,8302.3%9
20222,6901.9%11
20233,2492.2%10
20243,6582.6%8

Products where Italy sells more than half

ProductSupplierShareSecondValue
JewelryItaly78.4%over 75%United Kingdom · 6.1%$654 million
Hydrogen peroxideItaly77.7%over 75%Japan · 10.2%$17 million
Furnace burnersItaly64.1%United Kingdom · 12.1%$17 million
Aluminum wireItaly89.2%over 75%China · 2.2%$3 million
Stainless steel wire rodItaly86.4%over 75%United States · 4.2%$902 thousand

A product has a dominant supplier when a single country sells more than 50% of what is bought of it; we flag it separately above 75%.

Are there other suppliers in the world?

  • Italy sells 14.5% of what the world exports of jewelry; next come France (10.9%), India (10.9%) and China (9%). The rest of the world exported 152.8 times what Ireland buys from Italy.
  • Italy sells 5.7% of what the world exports of hydrogen peroxide; next come Belgium (14.1%), Germany (8.6%) and South Korea (8.4%). The rest of the world exported 54 times what Ireland buys from Italy.
  • Italy sells 15% of what the world exports of furnace burners; next come Germany (22%), China (10.1%) and United States (8.9%). The rest of the world exported 125.4 times what Ireland buys from Italy.
  • Italy sells 3.3% of what the world exports of aluminum wire; next come Canada (11.8%), Bahrain (11.3%) and India (8.6%). The rest of the world exported 1,738.2 times what Ireland buys from Italy.
  • Italy sells 13.1% of what the world exports of stainless steel wire rod; next come Taiwan (19.2%), China (13%) and Japan (11.8%). The rest of the world exported 1,670.7 times what Ireland buys from Italy.

Exports from the rest of the world already have buyers; the figure shows scale, not availability.

Seen from Italy

Ireland is Italy’s 36th-largest customer, with 0.58% of its exports.

Sources and method

Sources and licenses

Methodology

The data come from CEPII BACI (Etalab 2.0 licence), which reconciles what the exporting and the importing country report, in current USD, FOB. Data up to 2024.

Dependence is the share of a country’s imports (or exports) that each partner accounts for. It does not measure whether a product has a substitute or how much it would cost to change supplier.

The concentration index (HHI) adds up the square of each partner’s share, in percent: it runs from 0 to 10,000. Its equivalent is 10,000 ÷ HHI, the number of partners of the same size that would give that value.

Products are HS4 headings of the 1992 nomenclature (some combine different goods), with a floor of $1 million per product and country.

The EU is the 27 current members in every year; the United Kingdom is outside the EU throughout the series.

Re-exports: countries that act as redistribution hubs carry their notice and the figures are not corrected.