Foreign trade

Istat presents data on Italy’s foreign trade as well as unit value and volume indices (base year 2010=100) referring to January 2015. The results of the flash estimates on extra-EU trade for January 2015 have been disseminated on February 25^th .

• In January 2015 seasonally-adjusted data, compared to December 2014, decreased by 2.5% for outgoing flows and increased by 1.0% for incoming flows. Exports decreased for both areas:  -2.6% for EU countries and -2.4% for non EU countries. The increase of imports is the result of an increase for EU countries (+2.0%) and a drop for non EU countries (-0.4%). Over the last three months, seasonally-adjusted data, in comparison with the previous three months, showed a growth of 0.5% for exports and a fall of 1.2% for imports.
• In January 2015, compared with the same month of the previous year, trade decreased by 4.2% for both flows: exports and imports. Outgoing flows decreased by 4.7 for EU countries and 3.5 for non EU countries. Incoming flows fell by 0.5 for EU area and 8.5 for non EU area. The trade balance in January amounted to +219 million Euros (+452 million Euros for EU area and -233 million Euros for non EU countries) .

Date of next release: 16 April 2015