Following our previous report on Italy’s marble exports growth during the first nine months of 2019, Stonenews.eu is presenting the up-to-date growth statistics till October 2019. The original data are derived from Eurostat (last update 11/01/2020).
The table above shows Italy’s marble blocks and slabs exports growth as well as finished marble products exports growth both in value and quantity of exports, from January to October 2019, compared to last year’s same period of time.
There was a general increase in export value of Italy’s marble blocks and slabs trade, with the exception of February, June and August. Moreover, February was the only month with a remarkable fall in export value (-19.05%). January holds the lead in export value increase – 20.94% more than January 2018, followed by September and April with 18.93% and 13.96% relatively. As for quantity of exports, almost half of the months followed a downward trend while the rest moved upwards.
Italy’s finished marble products export growth from January to October 2019 had an overall decline both in value and quantity of exports, with the unique exception of January’s export value which had positive growth.
It is worth mentioning that during the first ten months of 2019, Italy managed to export marble blocks and slabs of 324.24 million euros worth as well as finished marble products of 660.13 million euros.
*Due to consistent data flow, statistics may alter during the year