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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 July 2013. The results of the flash estimates on extra-EU trade for July 2013 have been disseminated on September 6th.
- In July 2013 seasonally-adjusted data, compared to June 2013, showed a decrease for exports (-2.3%) and an increase for imports (+0.4%). Exports decreased for both: EU market (-2.5%) and non EU market (-2.0%). As regards imports the growth was the synthesis of an increase for non EU countries (+1.6%) and a decrease for EU countries (-0.6%). Over the last three months, seasonally-adjusted data, in comparison with the previous three months, showed an increase of 0.9% for outgoing flows and a drop of 0.2% for incoming flows.
- In July 2013, compared with the same month of the previous year, trade increase by 3.0% for exports (+2.6% for EU area and +3.5% for non EU countries) and decreased by 0.3% for imports (+1.1% for EU and -1.9% for non EU countries). The trade balance (January-July 2013) amounted to 18.2 billion Euro (7.7 billion Euro for EU area and 10.5 billion Euro for non EU countries).