Tunis – According to an elaboration of the Chamber of Commerce of Milan on ISTAT data for the first quarter of 2014, the trade exchange between Lombardy and Tunisia exceeds 270 million Euros, a fifth of the national import-export with the neighboring country of Mediterranean Africa. Mainly it regards exports, worth a total of 167 million euros, concentrated in the manufacturing sector (99.6%). From Italy to Tunisia arrive metal products (18.2%) and machinery (12.1%), but also textiles and clothing (27.9%), which are also imported (over 55%), followed by electrical equipment (12%). Among the provinces, Milan with a third of the interchange leads the relations with Tunisia, within a flexion, however, compared to 2013. (9colonne)
