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Since March 17, 2016 data on foreign trade have been published in the press release Foreign trade and industrial import prices
Press release
Foreign Trade
Istat presents data on Italy’s foreign trade as well as unit value and volume indices (base year 2005=100) referring to April 2012. The results of the flash estimates on extra-EU trade for April 2012 have been disseminated on May 23rd.
- Compared to the previous month, export in April increased by 0.2% reflecting a growth of 1.0% of sales to EU markets. Imports increased by 2.5%, with a growth of purchases by both EU markets (2.4%) and non-EU (2.6%). In the quarter (February 2012-April 2012), exports registered an economic growth of 0.5% due to an increase in sales to countries outside the EU (+2.6%). For purchases of goods there is a fall of 0.9% greater for EU markets (-2.1%).
- In April 2012, compared with the same month of the previous year, export decreased by 1.7% and affects EU markets (-4.8%). The decrease of imports (-9.3%) was due to reduced purchases by both EU countries (-10.4%) and non EU countries (-8.1%). In April, trade balance amounted to -202 million euros: +702 million for the EU countries and -904 for non-EU countries. Net of energy products, the balance was 5.4 billion euros.