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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 September 2013. The results of the flash estimates on extra-EU trade for September 2013 have been disseminated on October 23th.
- In September 2013 seasonally-adjusted data, compared to August 2013, showed an increase for outgoing flows (+0.6%) and for incoming flows (+1.9%). Exports increased for both areas: +0.1% for EU countries and +1,3% for non EU countries. As regards imports increased for both areas: +3.3% for EU countries and +0.2% for non EU countries. Over the last three months, seasonally-adjusted data, in comparison with the previous three months, showed a stability of 0.0% for exports and of 1.9% for imports.
- In September 2013, compared with the same month of the previous year, trade increased by 2.0% for exports (+2.4% for EU area and +1.5% for non EU countries) and fell by 0.1% for imports (+5.2% for EU and -6.3% for non EU countries). The trade balance (January-September 2013) amounted to 19.6 billion Euro (8.3 billion Euro for EU area and 11.3 billion Euro for non EU countries)