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Consumer Goods: Northern Ireland

Asked by Alex EastonIndependentTreasuryTabled Answered 4 June 2026UIN 3884

The question

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what estimate she has made of the volume of retail goods purchased in Northern Ireland and subsequently transported by consumers into the Republic of Ireland.

Answered by Dan Tomlinson

HM Revenue and Customs does not hold an estimate of the volume of retail goods purchased in Northern Ireland and subsequently transported by consumers into the Republic of Ireland.

There is no routine data collection on the movement of retail goods carried by individual consumers across the land border, and such movements are not subject to customs declarations.

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