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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 January 2012. The results of the flash estimates on extra-EU trade for January 2012 has been disseminated on February 23th .
- In January 2012 seasonally-adjusted data, compared to December 2011, showed a decrease of 2.5% for export and a of 0.5% for imports. The decrease, for exports, was of equal intensity for EU and non EU countries. As regards imports the decrease was recorded for EU countries only (-5,1%) compared to the growth of non EU markets (+5,1%). Over the last three months, seasonally-adjusted data, in comparison with the previous three months, showed an increase of 1.6% for outgoing flows and a drop of 2.8% for incoming flows.
- In January 2012, compared with the same month of the previous year, trade rose by 4.3% for exports (+3.9% for EU area and +4.8% for non EU countries) and dropped by 2.6% for imports (-5.4% for EU and +0.2% for non EU countries). The trade balance amounted to -4.4 billion Euro (table 1) compared with -6,5 billion Euro registered in the same month of 2010.