The perspectives of the exporting enterprises of point to a nominal increase of 6.4% in exports of goods in 2018, corresponding to an upward revision of 0.7 percentage points (p.p.) in the 1st forecast made in November 2017. This revision results from the upward revision of the perspectives in Intra-EU exports (+1.0 p.p. to an increase of 7.3%) and the downward revision in Extra-EU exports (-0.2 p.p. to an increase of 3.7%).
Excluding Fuels and lubricants, enterprises are expecting a 7.1% increase in 2018 (+0.2 p.p. in comparison to the 1st forecast).