Brussels. In the second quarter of 2016, export from the province of Novara recorded a trend performance of + 2.2%, better than both the previous quarter (+ 0.1%) and to the one recorded at the national level (+ 0.3%). In the first half of the year, however, the growth of provincial exports was 1.2% compared to the same time of year in 2015, compared with zero growth at the national level. The data, drawn from ‘Osservatorio export’ (export observatory) by the Edison Foundation in collaboration with the Industrial Association of Novara, also reveal that only manufacturing exports from Novara recorded a +1.5% trend in the first half 2016, exceeding €2.3 billion euro in value. According to the geographical distribution of exports in the first half of 2016 there has been a 4.1% increase in exports towards the EU and a decline of 2.6% of those towards markets outside Europe. Overall exports of manufactured goods towards EU countries amounted to €1.5 billion, representing the first half of 2016, 63.1% of the manufacturing export from Novara; those towards non-EU markets, amount to €857 million are equivalent to 36.9%. (9Colonne)