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Foreign trade

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Istat presents data on Italy’s foreign trade as well as unit value and volume indices (base year 2005=100) referring to November 2010. The results of the flash estimates on extra-EU trade for November 2010 has been disseminated on December 21st.

• In November 2010, compared with the same month of the previous year, trade raised by 20.0% for exports (22.0% for non EU countries and 18.6% for EU area) and by 28.3% (+39.5% for non EU and +20.7 for EU countries) for imports. The trade balance amounts to -3.4 billion Euro compared with the -1.0 billion Euro registered in the same month of 2009.

• November 2010 seasonally-adjusted data, compared to October, presented an increase for exports (+0.9%) with a higher performance for EU area (+1.2%) and a lower increase (+0.5%) for extra EU countries. The rise of imports was more intensive +1.5%), in particular for extra-EU markets (+2.4%) rather than EU countries (+0.9%). Over the last three months, seasonally-adjusted data, in comparison with the previous three months, showed an increase of 3.3% in outgoing flows and of 3.8% in incoming flows.

• In the period January-November 2010, compared with the same period of the previous year, trade increased by 15.2% for exports (16.5% for non EU countries and 14.3% for EU area) and by 21.8% (28.2 for non EU and 17.0% for EU countries) for imports. The trade balance showed a deficit of 24.6 billion Euro which worsened the result of -5.7 billion Euro registered in the same period of the previous year.

For further details, please see CONISTAT


According to the SDDS programme of the IMF, Istat publishes data of this press release on the National Summary Data Page and disseminates an annual calendar of press releases both on Istat and SDDS website.

Reference period: November 2010

Date of Issue: 14 January 2011

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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