Eight-month Irish foreign trade

Ireland's Central Statistical Office reports that Ireland imported raw hides and skins worth 1.4 million euros in the first eight months of 2005, compared with 1.5 million euros in the same period the previous year. Irish exports of the same types of commodities in the January to August period were worth 42.9 million euros, as against 54.1 million euros in the corresponding period in 2004.