The year 2017 started with the foot on the accelerator for Italian exports, boding well for the 215,700 exporting Italian companies surveyed in the 2015-2016 report by Italian Trade Agency ICE on the internationalization of the country, in collaboration with national statistics institute ISTAT.

The first data on sales abroad show that exports are up 6.6% in the first four months of 2017, a figure that is higher than expectations, which currently point to 3-4% growth for the full year.