MADRID, 20 May. (EUROPA PRESS) –
The turnover of the industry rose 13.2% in March compared to the same month of 2021, a rate 7.3 points lower than that of February, according to data released this Friday by the National Institute of Statistics (INE).
With the year-on-year advance in March, the turnover of the industry adds 13 consecutive months of increases after having previously chained a year of negative year-on-year rates due to the Covid crisis.
In monthly terms (March over February) and in data corrected for seasonality and calendar, the industry registered a 6.1% drop in sales in the third month of the year, its largest monthly drop since April 2020, at the beginning of the health crisis.
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