The border between the Irish Republic and Northern Ireland is 310 miles (500km) long, and each day 30,000 people travel across it

Coleraine

Derry

Republic

of Ireland

Northern

Ireland

Strabane

Antrim

Omagh

Belfast

Enniskillen

Armagh

Newry

Cross-border

trade in 2016

UK to Ireland

£13.6bn

Ireland to UK

£9.1bn

30 km

30 miles

80%

of trade crossing the border between the Irish Republic and Northern Ireland is from small business

 

49%

 

of cross-border manufacturing trade is from food, beverages and tobacco

 

Pre-1972 there was a chain of 17 HM Customs and Excise boundary posts at the major road crossing points along the Northern Ireland land border

80%

The border between the Irish Republic and Northern Ireland is 310 miles (500km) long, and each day 30,000 travel across it

of trade crossing the border between the Irish Republic and Northern Ireland is from small business

 

49%

 

of cross-border

manufacturing trade is from food, beverages and tobacco

 

Pre-1972 there was a chain of 17 HM Customs and Excise

boundary posts at the major road crossing points along the Northern Ireland land border

Coleraine

Derry

Northern

Ireland

Strabane

Antrim

Omagh

Belfast

Armagh

Enniskillen

Newry

Republic

of Ireland

Cross-border

trade in 2016

UK to Ireland

£13.6bn

Ireland to UK

£9.1bn

30 km

30 miles

The border between the Irish Republic and Northern Ireland is 310 miles (500km) long, and each day 30,000 travel across it

80%

of trade crossing the border between the Irish Republic and Northern Ireland is from small business

 

49%

 

of cross-border

manufacturing trade is from food, beverages and tobacco

 

Pre-1972 there was a chain of 17 HM Customs and Excise

boundary posts at the major road crossing points along the Northern Ireland land border

 

Coleraine

Derry

Northern

Ireland

Strabane

Antrim

Omagh

Belfast

Enniskillen

Armagh

Newry

Cross-border

trade in 2016

UK to Ireland

£13.6bn

Ireland to UK

£9.1bn

Republic

of Ireland

20 km

20 miles