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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 May 2012. The results of the flash estimates on extra-EU trade for May 2012 have been disseminated on June 21rd.
- Compared to the previous month, export in May increased by 1.4% reflecting a growth of 5.5% of sales to non-EU markets. Imports increased by 0.9%, with a growth of purchases by both EU markets (0.7%) and non-EU (1.2%). In the quarter (March 2012-May 2012), exports registered an economic growth of 1.2% due to an increase in sales to countries outside the EU (+4.9%). For purchases of goods there is a fall of 0.1% greater for EU markets (-1.3%).
- In May 2012, compared with the same month of the previous year, export increased by 4.8% and affects non-EU markets (14.1%). The decrease of imports (-4.5%) was due to reduced purchases by both EU countries (-7.6%) and non EU countries (-0.9%). In May, trade balance amounted to +1.008 million euros: +691 million for EU countries and +316 for non-EU countries. Net of energy products, the balance was 6.1 billion euros (Table 2).