ICE chief says exports up 3-4% this year

(ANSA) - Rome, December 17 - Riccardo Monti, the president of the ICE-Italian Trade Promotion Agency, said Wednesday that Italian exports will end the year up to 4% higher than in 2014, adding that 2015 should be a good year too. "Italy will end the year with export growth of between 3% and 4%," Monti told an ANSA forum. "The expectations for next year are very good," he said, adding that the weak euro was helping. "The balance of trade is doing even better," he commented. "It'll end the year with record surplus".