{"id":18258,"date":"2012-10-16T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2012-10-15T22:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nuovowww.collaudo.istat.it\/non-categorizzato\/foreign-trade-august-2012\/"},"modified":"2024-06-08T21:30:31","modified_gmt":"2024-06-08T19:30:31","slug":"foreign-trade-august-2012","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.istat.it\/en\/press-release\/foreign-trade-august-2012\/","title":{"rendered":"Foreign trade"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Istat presents data on Italy\u2019s foreign trade as well as unit value and volume indices (base year 2005=100) referring to August 2012. The results of the flash estimates on extra-EU trade for August 2012 were disseminated on September 24<sup>th<\/sup>.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Compared to the previous month, export in August increased by 3.9% reflecting sales growth for both European (+4,7%) and non-European (+2.9%) markets. The rise in imports (+4.4%) is due to the increase in purchases by European countries (+3.9%) and non-European countries (+4.9%). In the quarter (June-August 2012), exports growth (+1.5%) is mainly due to an increase in sales to EU (+1.6%). The decline in import (-0.3%) is the result of a fall of purchases of goods from non-EU (-1.3%) and an increase of purchases of goods from EU (+0.6%).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>In August 2012, compared with the same month of the previous year, export increased by 8.4% and affects non-EU markets (14.0%). The decrease of imports (-1.1%) was due to reduced purchases by EU countries (-3.0%). In August, trade balance amounted to -598 million euros: +374 million for EU countries and -972 for non-EU countries. Net of energy products, the balance was 5.2 billion euros.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Istat presents data on Italy\u2019s foreign trade as well as unit value and volume indices (base year 2005=100) referring to August 2012. The results of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4082],"tags":[3225,3250,2968,3473,3137],"regione":[],"tema":[4070],"class_list":["post-18258","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-press-release","tag-exports","tag-imports","tag-flash","tag-trade","tag-trade-balance","tema-external-trade"],"meta_fields":{"data_pubblicazione":"20121016","descrizioneperiodo":"August 2012","titolobreve":"Foreign trade","news":"In August trade balance amounted to -598 million euros","news_rss":"In August 2012, compared with the same month of the previous year, export increased by 8.4% and affects non-EU markets (14.0%). The decrease of imports (-1.1%) was due to reduced purchases by EU countries (-3.0%). In August, trade balance amounted to -598 million euros: +374 million for EU countries and -972 for non-EU countries. Net of energy products, the balance was 5.2 billion euros.","sottotitolo":""},"acf":[],"wpml_current_locale":"en_US","wpml_translations":[],"tags-info":[{"id":3225,"label":"exports","slug":"exports"},{"id":3250,"label":"imports","slug":"imports"},{"id":2968,"label":"statistics flash","slug":"flash"},{"id":3473,"label":"trade","slug":"trade"},{"id":3137,"label":"trade balance","slug":"trade-balance"}],"categories-info":[{"id":4082,"label":"Press release","slug":"press-release"}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.istat.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18258","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.istat.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.istat.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.istat.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/17"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.istat.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18258"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.istat.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18258\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.istat.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18258"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.istat.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18258"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.istat.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18258"},{"taxonomy":"regione","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.istat.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/regione?post=18258"},{"taxonomy":"tema","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.istat.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tema?post=18258"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}