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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
Press release
Foreign trade
Istat presents data on Italy’s foreign trade as well as unit value and volume indices (base year 2010=100) referring to April 2014. The results of the flash estimates on extra-EU trade for April 2014 have been disseminated on May 23rd.
- In April 2014 seasonally-adjusted data, compared to March, increased by 0.4% for outgoing flows and decreased by 0.6% for incoming flows. The growth in exports is the synthesis of the increase in sales to EU countries (+0.9%) and the decrease to non EU countries (-0.2%). Imports decreased for EU countries (-1.4%) and increased for EU countries (+0.4%). Over the last three months, seasonally-adjusted data, in comparison with the previous three months, showed a fall for both flows: -0.7% for exports and -1.5% for imports.
- In April 2014, compared with the same month of the previous year, trade increased by 2.0% for exports (+5.0% for EU area and -1.7% for non EU countries) and fell by 2.9% for imports (-2.6% for EU and -3.4% for non EU countries). The trade balance in April amounted to +3.5 billion Euro (+1,851 million Euro for EU area and +1,654 million Euro for non EU countries).