ANSA Lavoro - ROME, MAY 17 - In March 2022 a conjunctural growth is estimated for both trade flows with foreign countries, more intense for exports (+ 1.7%) than for imports (+ 1.3%).
Istat notes this, underlining that exports grow on an annual basis by 22.9% while imports record a tendential increase of 38.8% In March 2022 the trade deficit is equal to 84 million euros, compared to an advance of 5,190 million. in the same month of 2021. The energy deficit (-8.065 million) is much larger than a year earlier (-2.794 million).
And exports to Russia in March sub-annual decreases by 50.9%.
On an annual basis, the countries that make the largest contributions to the increase in national exports are the United States (with an increase of 40.0%), France (+ 21.0%), Germany (+ 14.8%) and Switzerland ( + 32.2%).
