Shipped Where
Imported from Ireland, 2025
$134 billion
Share of all US imports
3.9%
Rank among sources
#8 of 218
Arrived by air
87%

Ireland is the eighth largest source of US imports: $134 billion in 2025.

That is 3.9% of everything the US imported. The top product line is hormones and steroids. Up from 12th in 2015.

What the US buys from Ireland

Top products by value, 2025. Gray line is 2015 for comparison.

  1. Hormones and steroids$56.3B · 42.1%
  2. Blood products, antibodies and vaccines$28.5B · 21.3%
  3. Medicines$13.4B · 10.0%
  4. Orthopedic and implantable devices$5.6B · 4.2%
  5. Nucleic acids and heterocyclic compounds$4.5B · 3.3%
  6. Nitrogen-based pharmaceutical chemicals$4.0B · 3.0%
  7. Medical instruments$3.5B · 2.6%
  8. Mixtures of odoriferous substances and mixtures based on one or more$2.4B · 1.8%
All 23 products from Ireland
  1. Computer Chips$1.8B · 1.3%
  2. Sulfonamides$802M · 0.6%
  3. Computers and computer units$441M · 0.3%
  4. Spirits and liqueurs$376M · 0.3%
  5. Optical fibers and optical fiber bundles$367M · 0.3%
  6. Diagnostic or lab reagents on a backing$320M · 0.2%
  7. Semiconductors, LEDs and solar cells$306M · 0.2%
  8. Pharmaceutical goods of specified in note 4 to chapter 30$301M · 0.2%
  9. Filters and centrifuges$243M · 0.2%
  10. Plates, sheets, film, foil and strip not elsewhere specified$239M · 0.2%
  11. Forklifts$236M · 0.2%
  12. Heterocyclic compounds with oxygen hetero-atom only$207M · 0.2%
  13. Butter$203M · 0.2%
  14. Electrical control panels$201M · 0.2%
  15. Lab analysis instruments$176M · 0.1%

Excludes US goods returned after export and other special trade codes.

Ireland's rank among US import sources

Where Ireland placed each year, by value of goods the US imported

  1. 2010: tenth
  2. 2011: falls to 12th
  3. 2012: falls to 14th
  4. 2016: rises to tenth
  5. 2025: rises to eighth

Where it lands

US ports of entry for goods from Ireland, 2025. Letters match the list.

ABCDF
  • ESan Juan Airport, PR, off map

Off this map: E San Juan Airport, PR

ABCDF

87% of goods from Ireland arrived by air. Chicago, IL handled 54% on its own, more than the next five ports combined.

  1. AChicago, IL $72.1B · 53.9%
  2. BAtlanta, GA $9.8B · 7.3%
  3. CNew Orleans, LA $5.7B · 4.3%
  4. DNewark, NJ $5.1B · 3.8%
  5. ESan Juan Airport, PR $4.9B · 3.7%
  6. FChester, PA $4.8B · 3.6%

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