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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 June 2016. The results of the flash estimates on extra-EU trade for June 2016 have been disseminated on June 22nd.
- In June 2016 seasonally-adjusted data, compared to May 2016, decreased by 0.4% for outgoing flows and are stationary for incoming flows. Exports grew by 0.3% for non EU countries and fell by 0.9% for EU countries. Imports increased by 0.4% for EU countries and decreased by 0.5% for non EU countries. During the second quarter 2016, seasonally-adjusted data, in comparison with the previous quarter, increased by 2.4% for exports and by 1.8% for imports.
- In June 2016, compared with the same month of the previous year, exports decreased by 0.5% and imports by 6.1%. Outgoing flows increased by 1.3% for EU countries while decreased by 2.8% for non EU countries. Incoming flows fell by 1.1 for EU area and by 13.0% for non EU area. The trade balance in June amounted to +4,7 billion Euros (+1,2 billion Euros for EU area and +3,5 billion Euros for non EU countries).