The Italian trade balance improves. According to Istat, in fact, in the month of April the foreign trade surplus rose up to share 3,7 billion euros against the 3,5 billion recorded in the same month of 2014. Net of energy, the trade balance is positive for 7 billion. In the first four months of the year as a whole, assets reached 11,5 billion.
In the month of April, in any case, there is one strong annual growth for both streams: exports, in fact, showed an increase of 9% on the same month of 2014, while imports showed a growth of 9,3%. Compared to the month of March, the value of imports is substantially stationary, while for exports there is a slight decrease (-0,8%).
In April, the growth trend of exports to the United States (+36,3%), China (+17,9%) and the United Kingdom (+14,8%) was very strong, while there was a sharp drop in trade with Russia (-29,5%). Among the sectors, the growth in vehicle sales stands out (+51,2%). Purchases from Eda countries (+50,8%) and those of means of transport, excluding motor vehicles (+36,7%) are growing strongly. The increase in imports was determined by the growth in purchases both from the EU area (+11,6%) and from outside the EU (+6,3%).
A economic level, the decrease in exports is the synthesis of a limited growth in sales to EU markets (+0,2%) and a more marked decrease to non-EU markets (-1,9%). Capital goods are down sharply (-3,9%), while energy products are growing (+9,9%).
As for imports, the stationary result compared to the previous month is the synthesis of a growth in purchases from non-EU countries (+1,5%) and a decrease from EU countries (-1,1%). The growth of energy products (+8,8%) is particularly significant, while non-durable consumer goods (-4,0%) are down.
