Press release
Foreign trade with non-EU countries – September 2026
Data on Italy’s foreign trade with non-EU27[i] countries in September 2026 are preliminary. The results of the survey on total foreign trade in September 2026 will be disseminated on coming 13 November 2026.
In September 2026, exports to non-EU27 countries increased by 5.4% and imports by 6.3%, compared with the same month of the previous year.
In September 2026, in seasonally adjusted terms, exports decreased by 1.3%, while imports increased by 1.4%, compared with August 2026. Over the last three months, seasonally adjusted data, compared with the previous three months, showed a 3.0% increase in outgoing flows and a 1.6% decrease in incoming flows.
In September 2026, the trade balance with non-EU27 countries registered a surplus of 2,826 million euro compared with a surplus of 2,894 million euro in September 2025; excluding energy, the surplus was equal to 8,554 million euro, up compared with a 6,333-million-euro surplus in September 2025.