Extra-Eu foreign trade

Istat presents preliminary data on Italy’s foreign trade with non-EU countries in April 2013. The results of the survey on total foreign trade in April 2013 will be disseminated on coming 17 June.

In April 2013, exports to non-EU countries increased by 6.0% and imports decreased by 10.3% compared with the same month of the previous year. The trade balance showed a surplus of  1,464 million euro (Table 1) compared with a 901 million euro deficit in the same month of 2012.

In April 2013, in seasonally-adjusted terms, exports decreased by 0.7% and imports decreased by 0.3% compared with March 2013. Over the last three months, seasonally-adjusted data showed a 2.4% decrease in outgoing flows and a 4.7% decrease in incoming flows in comparison with the previous three months.

In the period January-April 2013 exports to non-EU countries increased by 5.3% and imports decreased by 10.8% compared with the same period of 2012. The trade balance registered a surplus of 2,518 million euro compared to the deficit of 7,090 million euro in the same period of 2012. Excluding energy, the trade balance presented a surplus of 20,214 million euro (Table 3) compared with a 15,607 million euro surplus in January-April 2012.