(AGI) Milan, Jan 13 - Exports from Italy's industrial districtscontinued to rise in the third quarter of 2014, albeit at aslower pace, largely due to the crisis between Russia andUkraine, an Intesa Sanpaolo report shows. The districts weremonitored by the banking group, which found that exports roseto 21.5 billion euros between July and September, 2.2 percentmore than in the same period the previous year. A 2.9 percentrise was noted in the second quarter of 2014, and a 5.4 percentrise in the first. In Russia and Ukraine alone, around 350million euros were lost between January and September. After 19quarters of consecutive growth, the Italian industrialdistricts exported a new record 64.6 billion euros' worth ofgoods in the first three quarters of 2014, 2.2 billion eurosmore than the previous year. The strongest markets were theU.S., Switzerland, Spain and the UK, where sales rose 1.2billion, 8.4 percent, during the same period. Best-performingexports were leather and shoes from the Florence area, eyewearfrom Belluno, gold from Valenza and tiles from Sassuolo.However, 58 districts out of a total 144 saw a fall in exports,ascribed to the popularity of goods bought from new markets,which rose 1 percent in the third quarter. China saw a 9.9percent increase in the first quarter of this year, and a moremodest 2.2 percent rise in the third. The report predicted thatthe strong depreciation of the rouble, due to plummeting oilprices, would continue to bite. There would be a furtherslowing-down in Asia, although there would some beopportunities for growth, and the U.S. would continue toexpand. Italian exports would be helped by a depreciation inthe euro and a modest rise in European demand. (AGI) . .