Dáil Éireann Debate, Tuesday - 29 September 2026
625. Deputy Donna McGettigan asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the top ten countries by volume and value from which Ireland imports Turkish products in 2025 and for the first half of 2026; and the quantity from each country, in tabular form. [68645/26]
Amharc ar fhreagraCentral Statistics Office (CSO) trade data identifies the country from which goods are imported into Ireland. It does not identify the country in which those goods were originally produced. Therefore, the requested information is not available from official trade data.
The table below details the value and volume of Irish agri-food imports from Türkiye in 2025, and the first half of 2026, by product category, as reported by the CSO.
|
|
Jan - Dec 2025 |
|
Jan - Jun 2026 |
|
|
|
€000 |
Tonnes |
€000 |
Tonnes |
|
Fruit & Vegetables |
13,452 |
4,205 |
5,872 |
1,941 |
|
Fruit & Vegetables Based Products |
8,502 |
3,410 |
4,079 |
1,587 |
|
Forestry & Wood products |
5,288 |
6,513 |
3,292 |
4,438 |
|
Sugar, Sugar Preparation & Honey |
4,873 |
1,889 |
2,109 |
770 |
|
Fish |
3,164 |
340 |
2,322 |
257 |
|
Coffee, Tea, Cocoa & Spices |
2,725 |
198 |
700 |
71 |
|
Cereal & cereal preparation |
1,795 |
313 |
916 |
178 |
|
Crude Animal & Vegetable Material |
670 |
217 |
316 |
114 |
|
Miscellaneous Edible Products & Preparations |
568 |
87 |
621 |
108 |
|
Dairy Produce |
321 |
107 |
225 |
38 |
|
Wool, Flax & Cotton |
288 |
17 |
109 |
6 |
|
Beverages |
238 |
944 |
148 |
428 |
|
Oil, Fats & Oleaginous Fruit |
173 |
43 |
155 |
118 |
|
Poultry |
64 |
6 |
8 |
3 |
|
Animal Feed |
33 |
21 |
105 |
163 |
|
Pigmeat |
6 |
0.5 |
- |
- |
|
Animal Skins & Furs |
4 |
0.2 |
0.3 |
0.0 |
|
Beef |
0.4 |
0.0 |
- |
- |
|
Live Animals |
- |
- |
1.1 |
0.1 |
|
Egg |
- |
- |
0.1 |
0.0 |
|
Grand Total |
42,165 |
18,311 |
20,979 |
10,221 |
It should be noted that CSO trade data may be subject to revision.
Further information on Agri-food sector trade can be found in chapter six of the Annual Review and Outlook for Agriculture, Food and Marine 2024 - 2025, my Department’s flagship economic publication, which is available at Annual Review and Outlook for Agriculture, Food and the Marine 2024-2025
(www.gov.ie/en/department-of-agriculture-food-and-the-marine/publications/annual-review-and-outlook-for-agriculture-food-and-the-marine-2024/).
