According to data released by Istat on Italy\u2019s foreign trade, currently available for non-EU countries only, Italy exported goods worth \u20ac47.9 billion in the first two months of 2025, recording a moderate increase of +0.4% compared to the same period in 2024.<\/p>\n
During the same period, Italy imported goods worth \u20ac42.8 billion, registering a +13.3% increase compared to the first two months of 2024.<\/p>\n
The trade balance for the first two months of 2025 with non-EU countries was positive, amounting to +\u20ac5.1 billion. Excluding the energy sector (which recorded a deficit of -\u20ac9.4 billion), the trade surplus amounted to +\u20ac14.5 billion.<\/p>\n
Geographical trends based on currently available data for Italy\u2019s main non-EU trading partners, export growth in value was particularly strong in the following countries\/regions: Switzerland (+15.5%), OPEC countries (+11.8%), the United Kingdom (+10.2%), the Middle East (+6.8%), MERCOSUR countries (+4.1%), Japan (+3%), and India (+2.4%). Exports to ASEAN countries (-2.1%), the United States (-2.8%), Turkey (-9.2%), China (-12.7%), and Russia (-22.6%) recorded decreases.<\/p>\n
Sector-wise, data is currently available only for groups of goods. The increase in exports was mainly driven by higher sales of non-durable consumer goods (+8.9%) and intermediate goods (+4.2%). The increase in imports was broad-based, with the most significant growth seen in durable consumer goods (+28.6%), non-durable consumer goods (+22.5%), and intermediate goods (+13.9%).<\/p>\n
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Foreign trade performance with non-EU countries in February 2025 <\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n Considering only the month of February 2025, compared to February 2024, Italian exports to non-EU countries recorded a slight decrease of -2.1%. However, this decline was influenced by high-impact operations in the shipbuilding sector recorded in February 2024. Excluding these operations, Italian exports showed a growth of +1.7%.<\/p>\n Italian imports from non-EU countries also increased by +8.6%, driven by higher purchases, particularly of durable consumer goods (+17.1%), non-durable consumer goods (+17.9%), and energy (+17.6%).<\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"According to data released by Istat on Italy\u2019s foreign trade, currently available for non-EU countries only, Italy exported goods worth \u20ac47.9 billion in the first two months of 2025, recording a moderate increase of +0.4% compared to the same period in 2024. During the same period, Italy imported goods worth \u20ac42.8 billion, registering a +13.3% […]","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[3],"class_list":["post-134031","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-comunicati","tag-diplomazia-economica"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134031","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=134031"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134031\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":134032,"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134031\/revisions\/134032"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=134031"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=134031"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=134031"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}