Foreign trade

Istat presents data on Italy’s foreign trade as well as unit value and volume indices (base year 2005=100) referring to February 2011. The results of the flash estimates on extra-EU trade for February 2011 has been disseminated on February 21st.

• In February 2011 seasonally-adjusted data, compared to January 2011, presented a decrease both in exports (-1.4%) due to a reduction recorded on extra-EU markets (-4.3%) or in imports (-0.4%) with a reduction on extra-EU markets too (-1.6%). For intra Eu trade exports raised by 1% and imports by 0.6%. Over the last three months, seasonally-adjusted data, in comparison with the previous three months, showed a similar increase both for outgoing flows (+4.3%) or incoming flows (+4.1%).

• In February 2011, compared with the same month of the previous year, trade raised by 18.5% for exports (21.2% for non EU countries and 16.6% for EU area) and by 19.4% (+25.6% for non EU and +14.7% for EU countries) for imports. The trade balance amounts to -3.6 billion Euro (table 1) compared with -2.8 billion Euro registered in the same month of 2010.

• In the first two months of 2011 trade increased by 21.2% for exports (27.4% for non EU countries and 17.2% for EU area) and by 24.7% (35.6 for non EU and 16.1% for EU countries) for imports. The trade balance showed a deficit of 10.2 (table 1). It was about 7 billion Euro in the same period of the previous year.

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