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 | | Indeed, exports from the districts easily paid for their own imports of energy and raw materials (equivalent to 35 billion Euro) as well as those of other manufacturing sectors (means of transport, information technology, electronics, chemicals, paper, rubber, cement) and still guaranteed Italy's balance of trading a net total trade surplus of 30 billion Euro. |
 | | These same analyses of international trade by product groups show that Italian industrial districts of small and medium-sized enterprises hold shares of world trade in their sectors that are comparable to, if not higher than, those of the large car, chemicals and electronics multinationals. |
 | | Similarly, shares of world exports in their sectors in the gold districts of Arezzo and Vicenza, the eyewear district of Belluno, the marble district of Carrara and the packaging machine district along the "Emilian" axis are each in the order of 15%. |
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