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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 2005=100) referring to August 2012. The results of the flash estimates on extra-EU trade for August 2012 were disseminated on September 24th.
- Compared to the previous month, export in August increased by 3.9% reflecting sales growth for both European (+4,7%) and non-European (+2.9%) markets. The rise in imports (+4.4%) is due to the increase in purchases by European countries (+3.9%) and non-European countries (+4.9%). In the quarter (June-August 2012), exports growth (+1.5%) is mainly due to an increase in sales to EU (+1.6%). The decline in import (-0.3%) is the result of a fall of purchases of goods from non-EU (-1.3%) and an increase of purchases of goods from EU (+0.6%).
- In August 2012, compared with the same month of the previous year, export increased by 8.4% and affects non-EU markets (14.0%). The decrease of imports (-1.1%) was due to reduced purchases by EU countries (-3.0%). In August, trade balance amounted to -598 million euros: +374 million for EU countries and -972 for non-EU countries. Net of energy products, the balance was 5.2 billion euros.