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Foreign trade

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In October 2010, compared with the same month of the previous year, trade raised by 17.6% for exports (21.9% for non EU countries and 14.5% for EU area) and by 22.5% (+32% for non EU and +16 for EU countries) for imports. The trade balance amounted to -2 billion Euro (table 1) compared with the -0.6 billion Euro registered in the same month of 2009.

October 2010 seasonally-adjusted data, compared to September, presented an increase for exports (+1.2%) with a higher performance for extra EU area (+1.6%) and a lower increase (+0.9%) for EU countries. The rise of imports was more intensive (+2.4%), in particular for extra-EU markets (+3.2%) rather than EU countries (+1.8%). Over the last three months, seasonally- djusted data, in comparison with the previous three months, showed an increase of 3.1% in outgoing flows and of 3.7% in incoming flows.

In the period January-October 2010, compared with the same period of the previous year, trade increased by 14.7% for exports (15.9% for non EU countries and 13.8% for EU area) and by 21.1% (27.1 for non EU and 16.5% for EU countries) for imports. The trade balance showed a deficit of 21.2 billion Euro (table 1) which worsened the result of -4.7 billion Euro registered in the same period of the previous year.

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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: October 2010

Date of Issue: 15 December 2010

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