Istanbul – Between Turkey and Lombardy the commercial exchange has exceeded 4 billion in 2015, up 4% over the previous year, more than a quarter of the Italian total. A trend which is confirmed in the first three months of 2016: more than one billion euro, + 3%, 27.3% of the national total. Almost half of this foreign trade is concentrated in Milan (2 billion euro in 2015), followed by Brescia and Bergamo with almost half a billion each. Varese and Mantova which grew by 19.4%, has exceeded the 300 million mark. The most popular Lombard products on the turkish market are machinery (25% of total exports), chemicals (18.7%) and metals (13.5%), while the most important are textile products (22.2% ) and transportation (19.4%). It emerges from an evaluation of the Milan Chamber of Commerce on ISTAT data of 2014, 2015 and the first quarter of 2016. (9Colonne)
