About Us

This Division is responsible for the compilation of statistics on Ireland's merchandise trade statistics, imports and exports and for environmental accounts.

Enternal Trade

The basic data is collected by the Office of the Revenue Commissioners. The CSO is responsible for the compilation and dissemination of the statistics.

• The trade statistics with non-EU countries are compiled from Custom control documents.
• Statistics of the trade with EU countries are compiled from details collected directly from traders in the EU-harmonised Intrastat survey. This survey was introduced on the elimination of intra-EU Custom controls arising from completion of the Single Market in January 1993. This survey is subject to the statistical response and quality difficulties common to all statistical inquiries.

Environment

The purpose of Environmental Accounts in general is to supplement the National Accounts by outlining the potential impact on the environment of economic and social activity. At present the statistics published give a sectoral breakdown of green house gas emissions and acid rain precursor emissions.