Ireland’s trade surplus widened slightly to 5.3 billion euros in June 2025, up from 5.1 billion euros a year earlier. Exports rose 4.8% year-on-year to 17.5 billion euros, led by medical and pharmaceutical products (+8.9%), which accounted for 41.4% of total exports, and office machines and automatic data processing machines (+204.5%). Exports of organic chemicals fell 29.9%. By destination, the US remained the largest market at 24.9% of exports, followed by the Netherlands (13.9%) and Belgium (10.1%), though exports to the US fell 23.4% year-on-year. Imports increased 5.6% to 12.3 billion euros, driven by medical and pharmaceutical products (+70.7%), office machines and ADP machines (+41.8%), and organic chemicals (+3.5%). Germany was the largest supplier at 12.7% of total imports, followed by the US (12.6%) and France (12.1%), with imports from the US down 24.7% and imports from the UK falling 11.8%.