NON-EU FOREIGN TRADE PERFORMANCE IN THE FIRST QUARTER OF 2025<\/u><\/p>\n
According to the data released by Istat on Italy\u2019s foreign trade\u2014currently available only for non-EU countries\u2014in the first quarter of 2025, Italy exported goods worth \u20ac76.3 billion, marking an increase of +3.1% compared to the first quarter of 2024.<\/p>\n
During the same period, Italy imported goods worth \u20ac65.2 billion, registering a +11.7% increase compared to the first quarter of the previous year.<\/p>\n
The trade balance with non-EU countries in the first quarter of 2025 was positive, amounting to +\u20ac11.2 billion. Excluding the energy sector (which posted a deficit of -\u20ac13.2 billion), the trade surplus stood at +\u20ac24.4 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: OPEC countries (+16.8%), Middle East (+13.7%), MERCOSUR countries (+12.8%), United States (+11.8%), Switzerland (+11.2%), United Kingdom (+8.5%), India (+5.6%), and Japan (+2%). On the other hand, exports decreased towards ASEAN countries (-1.6%), China (-11.2%), Turkey (-18.3%), and Russia (-18.7%).<\/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 (+13.1%) and intermediate goods (+4.7%). The increase in imports was broad-based, with the most significant growth seen in durable consumer goods (+30.5%), non-durable consumer goods (+26.1%), and intermediate goods (+10.9%).<\/p>\n
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NON-EU FOREIGN TRADE PERFORMANCE \u2013 MARCH 2025<\/u><\/p>\n
Focusing on March 2025 alone, compared to March 2024, Italian exports to non-EU countries rose by +7.5%. This increase was mainly driven by higher sales of non-durable consumer goods (+20.7%) and capital goods (+10.4%). Italian imports from non-EU countries also grew by +8.7%, with the largest contributions coming from increased purchases of consumer goods, particularly durable (+33.6%) and non-durable (+32.4%) items.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NON-EU FOREIGN TRADE PERFORMANCE IN THE FIRST QUARTER OF 2025 According to the data released by Istat on Italy\u2019s foreign trade\u2014currently available only for non-EU countries\u2014in the first quarter of 2025, Italy exported goods worth \u20ac76.3 billion, marking an increase of +3.1% compared to the first quarter of 2024. During the same period, Italy imported […]","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[3],"class_list":["post-135926","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\/135926","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\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=135926"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135926\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":135927,"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135926\/revisions\/135927"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=135926"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=135926"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=135926"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}