New York – Italian exports boast a positive signs for the end of the first quarter of 2015: at the European level, Italy is second only to Germany, with a sales increase of 3.8% for seasonally adjusted data, and a value that touches €103 billion. In March, sales of Italian products recorded the best performance in Europe (+ 1.8% compared to February, compared with Germany’s + 1.2% and France’s +0.9%). While sales decrease in Italy’s main European destination markets (France -3.4% and Germany -0.4%), outside European borders exports to the United States register a staggering +39.4%, for a total value of €5.4 billion; in neighboring markets such as Turkey (+ 6.6%) and Switzerland (+ 3.9%), Italian exports also grow. (9Colonne)
