Foreign trade with non-EU countries

Data on Italy’s foreign trade with non-EU27 countries in April 2020 are preliminary. The results of the survey on total foreign trade in April 2020 will be disseminated on coming 18 June 2020.

In April 2020 exports to non-EU27 countries decreased by 44.2% and imports decreased by 32.7% compared with the same month of the previous year.

The trade balance showed a deficit of 148 million euro compared with a 2,928 million euro surplus in the same month of 2019.

In April 2020, in seasonally adjusted terms, exports decreased by 37.6% and imports decreased by 12.7% compared with March 2020. Over the last three months, seasonally adjusted data showed a 20.1% decrease in outgoing flows and a 18.1% decrease in incoming flows in comparison with the previous three months.

In April 2020 excluding energy, the trade balance showed a surplus of 1,179 million euro compared to the surplus of 6,354 million euro of April 2019.

For the former non-EU28 area, which does not include the United Kingdom, in April 2020, exports decreased by 44.4% and imports decreased by 32.3% compared with the same month of the previous year. In seasonnally adjusted terms, exports decreased by 37.5% and import reduced by 12.6% compared with March 2020. The trade balance showed a deficit of 741 million euro (there was a 1,879 million euro surplus in April 2019).

The measures related to the Covid-19 crisis, to-date adopted by the Government in support of businesses, have no impact on the presentation of Custom declarations (Single Administrative Document – SAD). Therefore, the Extrastat survey, which is based on this source, does not record technical and organizational issues regarding data collection.