Washington – According to the calculations of the Analysis Office of the Chamber of Commerce, the past year has noted a particularly positive trend in exports of Forlì and Cesena companies that have grown by 7.1% compared to a growth of 4.4% at regional level and by 3.8% nationally. The good performance was consistent with the positive results that have emerged from the first quarter of 2015. The dynamics of the main areas has been driven by the industry “Metals and metal products” on the rise in value of 10, 4% (representing 12.6% of the total), followed by ‘Machinery and mechanical appliances’ growing 4.2% (representing 16.7% of the total). The footwear sector is going through a rather difficult phase, going down by 2.1% (and which account for 12% of total exports) and the same goes for agricultural products, decreased by 1.8% (constituting 8.1 % of the total). The analysis for the target markets recorded a sharp rise towards North America: + 24.4%, compared with an incidence of 8.2% in total exports. Also increasing exports to European Union countries (+ 7.9%), and primary area of fundamental destination of our products (to be reckoned with reductive definition of “domestic market”, as it represents 58, 9% of the total) and the Middle East (+ 6.7% and accounting for 4.6% of the total). Down instead exports to European countries outside the EU (-9.5% and accounting for 8.6%) and East Asia (-3.8%, with an incidence of 8.7 %). (9Colonne)
