Tuesday, April 26, 2016

Istat: in March, exports to countries outside Europe falls by 0.3% on the month, import -2% – TGCOM

The export trend concerns all the major groupings and is more marked for energy (-42.6%). Even the decline in imports is “due to the energy component (-30.8%) and, to a less intense, to intermediate products (-8.3%).” Only capital goods recorded 2.3%. Even throughout the first quarter of the year the economic momentum of the trade with non-EU markets was negative, with a reduction of 2.9% for exports and 6.3% for imports.

data on import and export – According to Istat, in March “you resize the drop in sales of goods to Russia (-0.9%), started in May 2014″. The United States recorded an increase in exports (+ 11.3%), “due to the sale of a shipping means.” Also increase the sales of goods to Japan (+ 9.5%), while exports marked a sharp decrease in the Mercosur (-28.2%), OPEC (-21.6%), Turkey (-11%) and Asean (-8%). Imports from Russia (-18.1%) and China (-15.1%) were down sharply, in contrast to purchases from Turkey (+ 6.5%), Asean countries (+ 3.5%) and the United US (+2.9%).

decline in sales outside the EU – Looking at the economic data, the decline in sales to non-EU countries in March is determined from the goods of consumption (-6.1%) and intermediate goods (-2.7%) and energy (+ 17.6%) and capital goods (+ 4.9%) showed “sustained growth.” On the side of imports, the economic downturn has spread to all the main groups of goods, excluding energy (+ 6.7%). Purchases of consumer goods are down sharply (-4.8%). The trade surplus (+4,036 million) and ‘higher than the same month of 2015 (+3,422 million).

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