Ireland ten-month foreign trade

Ireland's Central Statistical Office reports that Ireland exported raw livestock hides and skins worth 68.8 million euros in the first ten months of 2004, as compared with 73.3 million euros in the same period the previous year. Irish imports of the same types of commodities in the January to October 2004 period were worth two million euros, against 5.1 million euros in the same period in 2003.