Foreign trade

Istat presents data on Italy’s foreign trade as well as unit value and volume indices (base  year 2005=100) referring to September 2011. The results of the flash estimates on extra-EU trade for September 2011 has been disseminated on 20 October 2011.

In September 2011 seasonally-adjusted data, compared to August 2011, showed an increase of 2% for export and a decrease of 1.3% for imports. For exports, the increase was higher for non EU countries (+4.1%) than EU area (+0.3%). As regards imports, a decrease was recorded both for non EU countries (-2.6%) and EU markets (-0.1%). Over the last three months, seasonally-adjusted data, in comparison with the previous three months, showed an increase of 1.7% for outgoing flows and a drop for incoming flows (-0.4%).

In September 2011, compared with the same month of the previous year, trade rose by 10.3% for exports (+5.5% for EU area and +17.7% for non EU countries) and by 3.6% for imports (+3.3% for EU and +3.9% for non EU countries). The trade balance amounted to -1.8 billion Euro compared with -3.7 billion Euro registered in the same month of 2010.

In the first nine months of 2011, compared with the same period of the previous year, trade increased by 13.5% for exports (+11.3% for EU area and +16.6% for non EU countries) and by 13.2% for imports (+9.2% for EU and +18.1% for non EU countries). Trade balance showed a deficit of 23.1 billion Euro. It was 21.1 in the same period of 2010.

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