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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 May 2013. The results of the flash estimates on extra-EU trade for May 2013 have been disseminated on June 24th.
- In May 2013 seasonally-adjusted data, compared to April 2013, showed an increase for exports (+0.6) and a decrease of 0.9% for imports. The increase, for exports, was the synthesis of an increase of 3.2% for non EU countries and a decrease of 1.8% for EU countries. As regards imports the fall was recorded for both: -0.5% for EU and -1.6% for non EU markets. Over the last three months, seasonally-adjusted data, in comparison with the previous three months, showed a fall of 0.5% for outgoing flows and a drop of 3.1% for incoming flows.
- In May 2013, compared with the same month of the previous year, trade decreased by 1.5% for exports (-3.4% for EU area and +0.7% for non EU countries) and decreased by 10.3% for imports (-5.5% for EU and -15.8% for non EU countries). The trade balance amounted to 3.9 billion Euro (0.9 billion Euro for EU area and 3.0 billion Euro for non EU countries).