ROME (ITALPRESS) – In the fourth quarter of 2024, compared with the previous quarter, exports were up for the Center (+1.7 percent) and the Northeast (+0.5 percent) and down for the Northwest (-0.8 percent) and the South and Islands (-0.2 percent). This was announced by Istat, pointing out that in 2024, compared to the previous year, the slight decrease in national exports in value (-0.4%) is a summary of differentiated territorial dynamics: the contraction of exports is larger for the Islands (-5.4%) and the South (-5.3%), smaller for the Northwest (-2.0%) and the Northeast (-1.5%), while strong growth is noted for the Center (+4.0%).
Overall in 2024, the largest declines in exports were in Basilicata (-42.4 percent), Marche (-29.7 percent) and Liguria (-24.1 percent); the most dynamic export regions, on the other hand, were Tuscany (+13.6 percent), Aosta Valley (+11.1 percent), Calabria (+9.4 percent), Latium (+8.5 percent) and Molise (+5.8 percent).
In 2024, lower exports of motor vehicles from Piedmont, Basilicata, Campania, and Abruzzo (-0.9 percentage points) and sharply lower sales of pharmaceutical, chemical-medical, and botanical items from Marche (-0.8 percentage points) contribute to curbing domestic exports. In contrast, increases in exports of pharmaceutical, chemical-medical and botanical items from Tuscany, Latium and Campania (+1.0 percentage points) and of sporting goods, games, musical instruments, valuables, medical instruments and other products not elsewhere classified (n.e.c.) from Tuscany (+0.7 percentage points) provide a positive boost to domestic sales in foreign markets.
Also according to the Institute of Statistics, over the entire year, the largest negative contributions to national exports come from declines in sales from Marche to China (-91.9 percent), Liguria to the United States (-77.7 percent), Tuscany to Switzerland (-48.9 percent), Piedmont to Germany (-11.2 percent) and OPEC countries (-34.4 percent) and Campania to the United States (-28.2 percent).
The largest positive contributions come from increased exports from Tuscany to Turkey (+242.9 percent) and the United States (+12.3 percent), from Campania to Switzerland (+26.1 percent), from Lombardy to Spain (+11.1 percent) and from Latium to Belgium (+20.8 percent) and the United States (+35.7 percent).
In 2024, the provinces that contribute most to curbing domestic exports are Ascoli Piceno, Turin, Genoa, Potenza, Syracuse and Ancona; at the opposite end, those that most support domestic sales in foreign markets are Arezzo, Florence, Latina, Lodi and Monza and Brianza. “The slight decline in exports in value in 2024 is a synthesis of negative dynamics of varying intensity affecting all areas, with the exception of the Center,” Istat comments. Tuscany is the region that provides the greatest positive impulse to the dynamics of national exports in 2024. In contrast, Marche, Piedmont, Liguria, Emilia-Romagna, Veneto and Basilicata provide the largest negative contributions.”
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