If in the first quarter of 2023 exports from all macros Italian regions recorded a significant increase in the trend, not This was the case with the cyclical variation, which was slightly negative for the North-West regions and the North-East, showed a more pronounced decline in the South and in the islands and was markedly positive in the Centre. Istat has announced that in the first three months of this year the exports from Central Italy totalled a value of 32.2 billion euros, with an increase of +6.1% on the trimester previous and with a trend increase of +20.3% on the first quarter of 2022. In the first three months of 2023, exports from North-West, amounting to 60.8 billion, marked a decline cyclical of -0.5% and a trend increase of +9.8%; those from the North-East, equal to 50.9 billion, showed a cyclical reduction of -0.9% and a trend increase of +5.1%. In the first quarter of this year exports from the South and the islands, of the total value of 16.7 billion euros, marked overall a contraction of -2,5% on the previous quarter and increments on the first trimester of 2022 pairs to +14.0% relative to the South and +2.1% for the islands.

The global value of Italian exports in the first quarter of This year it stood at 159.5 billion euros, with a sustained trend growth of +9.8% on the corresponding period of 2022.

The National Institute of Statistics has specified that in the first three months of 2023 most of the Italian regions recorded export increases in value: the most marked for Marche (+101.9%) - which alone contributed 2.8 percentage points to the year-on-year growth of national exports -, Molise (+25.2%), Campania (+23.9%), Tuscany (+17.1%) and Piedmont (+16.8%). On the other hand, there were reductions in exports for Lazio (-11.7%), Aosta Valley (-10.9%), Friuli-Venezia Giulia (-9.9%), Liguria (-6.7%) and Sicily (-2.4%).

On an annual basis, the largest contributions to trend growth of national exports derive from the increase in sales of Marche to China (+4,415.3%) and Belgium (+332.8%), Lombardy to the United States (+25.6%) and Switzerland (+23.6%), Piedmont to France (+33.3%), Germany (+25.5%) and the United States (+28.2%) and Tuscany to the United States (+42.0%). Negative contributions, on the other hand, come from the contraction of Lazio's exports to Belgium (-47.5%), Germany (-16.4%) and Poland (-35.6%), Friuli-Venezia Giulia to the United States (-62.4%) and Tuscany to Switzerland (-30.1%).

In the provincial analysis of exports - he specified again Istat - Ascoli Piceno shows positive performance, Milan, Turin, Livorno, Naples, Bergamo, Bologna, Florence, Verona and Padua. The largest negative contributions come from Latina, Gorizia, Parma, Frosinone, Mantua, Genoa, Syracuse, Terni, Bari and Ferrara.