Foreign trade

Istat presents data on Italy’s foreign trade as well as unit value and volume indices (base year 2010=100) referring to September 2013. The results of the flash estimates on extra-EU trade for September 2013 have been disseminated on October 23^th.

• In September  2013 seasonally-adjusted data, compared to August 2013, showed an increase for outgoing flows (+0.6%) and for incoming flows (+1.9%). Exports increased for both areas: +0.1% for EU countries and +1,3% for non EU countries. As regards imports increased for both areas: +3.3% for EU countries and +0.2% for non EU countries. Over the last three months, seasonally-adjusted data, in comparison with the previous three months, showed a stability of 0.0% for exports and of 1.9% for imports.
• In September 2013, compared with the same month of the previous year, trade increased by 2.0% for exports (+2.4% for EU area and +1.5% for non EU countries) and fell by 0.1% for imports (+5.2% for EU and -6.3% for non EU countries). The trade balance (January-September 2013) amounted to 19.6 billion Euro (8.3 billion Euro for EU area and 11.3 billion Euro for non EU countries)