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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 January 2011. The results of the flash estimates on extra-EU trade for January 2011 has been disseminated on February 21st.

• In January 2011, compared with the same month of the previous year, trade raised by 25.1% for exports (35.3% for non EU countries and 18.8% for EU area) and by 31.3% (+46.1% for non EU and +18.9% for EU countries) for imports. The trade balance amounts to -6.6 billion Euro (table 1) compared with -4 billion Euro registered in the same month of 2010.

• January 2011 seasonally-adjusted data, compared to December 2010, presented an increase in exports (+4.3%) with a higher performance for extra EU countries (+8.9%) and a lower increase (+0.9%) for EU area. The rise of imports was also intensive (+2.8%), in particular for extra-EU markets (+4.4%) rather than EU countries (+1.4%). Over the last three months, seasonally- djusted data, in comparison with the previous three months, showed an increase of 5.1% in outgoing flows and of 6.1% in incoming flows.

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: January 2011

Date of Issue: 18 March 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