Ireland's trade surplus widened slightly to €5.3 billion in June of 2025, compared with €5.1 billion in the same month last year. Exports rose 4.8% year-on-year to €17.5 billion, driven by medical & pharmaceutical products (+8.9%), which accounted for 41.4% of total exports, and office machines & automatic data processing machines (+204.5%). Exports of organic chemicals fell 29.9%. By destination, the US remained the top market, accounting for 24.9% of exports, followed by the Netherlands (13.9%) and Belgium (10.1%), with exports to the US declining 23.4% year-on-year. Imports rose 5.6% year-on-year to €12.3 billion, led by medical & pharmaceutical products (+70.7%), office machines & adp machines (+41.8%) and organic chemicals (+3.5%). Germany was the largest supplier, representing 12.7% of total imports, followed by the US (12.6%) and France (12.1%). Imports from the US dropped 24.7% year-on-year, while imports from the UK fell 11.8%.