Exports to non-EU countries in March showed a cyclical increase of 2.5% while for imports there was a greater increase of + 6.8%.
Istat notes this, explaining that "after the slight decline in February, exports recorded a new economic upturn in March, explained for more than half by the increase in energy sales".
Also in March, exports increased on an annual basis by 23.1%.
Imports recorded an even more sustained trend growth (+ 35.0%).
Istat observes that "compared to March of last year - the month in which Italian exports began to suffer the effects of the health crisis - the growth in exports is very sustained and determined for two thirds byincrease in sales of capital goods and intermediate goods.
The growth in exports is widespread towards all the main commercial partners outside the EU;
The increase in sales to China is clearly above average.
The economic upturn in imports, more marked than that of exports, is also due above all to greater purchases of energy.
The decisive trend increase, which came after a year of large declines, generally concerns all sectors.
Made in Italy exports to the USA
increase again,
marking an
increase of 2.8% in the first month without duties, thanks to the entry into force of the agreement between the European Union and the United States
. This is what emerges from Coldiretti's analysis of Istat data relating to foreign trade with non-EU countries in March 2021. The agreement in fact marked the stop to the additional duties that affected Made in Italy agri-food exports for a value of about half a billion euros on products such as Grana Padano, Gorgonzola, Asiago, Fontina, Provolone but also salami, mortadella, crustaceans, citrus molluscs, juices, cordials and liqueurs such as bitters and limoncello. The suspension of all tariffs relating to Airbus-Boeing disputes on aircraft and non-aircraft products is scheduled for an initial period of 4 months starting from 11 March 2021. "A constructive dialogue between countries must now be started with the new US president Biden. allies in a dramatic moment due to the effects of the pandemic ",underlines the president of Coldiretti, Ettore Prandini, in recalling that the United States represents the first outlet market outside the EU borders in the Made in Italy agri-food sector for a value close to 5 billion in 2020.
