Extra-Eu foreign trade

Istat presents preliminary data on Italy’s foreign trade with non-EU countries in January 2015. The results of the survey on total foreign trade in January 2015 will be disseminated on coming 18 March.

In January 2015 exports to non-EU countries decreased by 3.5% and imports decreased by 8.5% compared with the same month of the previous year. The trade balance showed a deficit of 234 million euro compared with a 938 million euro deficit in the same month of 2014.

In January 2015, in seasonally-adjusted terms, exports decreased by 2.4% and imports decreased by 0.4% compared with December 2014. Over the last three months, seasonally-adjusted data showed a 0.2% increase in outgoing flows and a 1.4% decrease in incoming flows in comparison with the previous three months.

Date of next release: March 25 2015