# Ireland exports to the United Kingdom: Trade Route Risk | Yugalinks

Understand reported exports from Ireland to the United Kingdom, the product routes that need a closer look, and the conditions that may affect planning.

Canonical: https://www.yugalinks.com/trade/corridor/IRL-GBR/risk

## Route overview

In 2024, Ireland reported $20.2B in goods exports to the United Kingdom. The overall review level is Watch.

## How to read this page

High attention means one or more conditions on these product types deserve a closer look. It is not a prediction that trade will stop or that a loss is certain. An HS6 code is the international six-digit code used to describe and compare traded goods.

## Key numbers

| Measure | Value | What it means |
| --- | ---: | --- |
| Latest reported exports | $20.2B | 2024 route total |
| Exports needing review | 37.6% | Share of route exports |
| Highest-priority products | 13 | Need the closest review |
| Products needing review | 322 | High-attention product types |
| Export volatility | 0.8 | Higher means bigger yearly swings |
| Below highest year | 27.6% | Compared with the route's best year |

## Product types to review

| Rank | HS6 | Product | Buyer-market imports | Below product high | Review level |
| ---: | --- | --- | ---: | ---: | --- |
| 1 | 300490 | Medicaments: consisting of mixed or unmixed products n.e.s. in heading no. 3004, for therapeutic or prophylactic uses, packaged for retail sale | $13.7B | 36.7% | Stable |
| 2 | 020130 | Meat: of bovine animals, boneless cuts, fresh or chilled | $1.2B | 0% | High attention |
| 3 | 330210 | Odoriferous substances and mixtures: of a kind used in the food or drink industries | $1.1B | 0% | High attention |
| 4 | 300215 | Blood, human or animal, antisera, other blood fractions and immunological products: immunological products, put up in measured doses or in forms or packings for retail sale | $5.7B | 9.2% | Stable |
| 5 | 293379 | Heterocyclic compounds: lactams: other than 6-hexanelactam (epsilon caprolactam) | $1.3B | 80% | Critical attention |
| 6 | 190590 | Food preparations: bakers' wares n.e.c. in heading no. 1605, whether or not containing cocoa: communion wafers, empty cachets suitable for pharmaceutical use, sealing wafers, rice papers and similar products | $3.0B | 0% | Stable |
| 7 | 902131 | Artificial parts of the body | $800.6M | 0% | High attention |
| 8 | 847150 | Digital processing units: other than those of subheadings 8471.41 or 8471.49, whether or not containing in the same housing one or two of the following types of unit: storage units, input units or output units | $4.2B | 77.7% | High attention |
| 9 | 020230 | Meat: of bovine animals, boneless cuts, frozen | $446.0M | 0% | High attention |
| 10 | 010121 | Horses: live, pure-bred breeding animals | $501.8M | 15.8% | High attention |

## Data sources

- Primary trade series: OECD (2025), Balanced international merchandise trade statistics (BIMTS) - HS2017-6D, OECD Data Explorer (accessed on 2026-08-29). [OECD Data Explorer](https://data-explorer.oecd.org/) - [OECD Terms & Conditions](https://www.oecd.org/termsandconditions/)
- CEPII BACI bilateral trade flows (202601): [dataset page](https://www.cepii.fr/CEPII/en/bdd_modele/bdd_modele_item.asp?id=37) - [BACI documentation](https://www.cepii.fr/DATA_DOWNLOAD/baci/doc/baci_webpage.html) - [Etalab 2.0 Open Licence](https://www.etalab.gouv.fr/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/open-licence.pdf)

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