After three months of decline, Italy's exports go back to September. Istat communicates it, reporting that the exports increased cyclically by 1,6%, mainly driven by the boom in the car market (+30,4%). The export of sporting goods, games, musical instruments, jewels, medical instruments (+8,7%) and computers, electronic and optical devices (+8,6%) was also highlighted.
The economic growth of exports can be attributed to the increase in sales to non-EU markets (+5,2%), while towards the EU area there was a limited decrease (-1,1%). But despite the positive data for the month of September, in the third quarter In 2015, Istat records a cyclical decrease in significant exports (-2,3%), spread across all the main product groupings and more marked for the non-EU area (-4,2%) than for the EU ( -0,7%).
For the month of September alone, Istat also highlights a increase in imports, which grew by 1,1% at the economic level. There was a significant expansion in the purchases of motor vehicles (+20,4%), means of transport, excluding motor vehicles (+13,9%) and electrical appliances (+13,8%). Unlike what has been seen with exports, the cyclical increase in imports relates both to the EU area (+0,9%) and to the non-EU area (+1,3%).
Il trade surplus in September it rises to 2,2 billion (against 1,9 billion in the same month of 2014).
