Wine and jewelry also appear among the top 20 product categories.
The following list shows which Italian exports attracted the most sales during 2017. Unlike most information currently available on the web, the items below are detailed at the 4-digit tariff code level.
This level of granularity can help entrepreneurs identify precisely which products in which Italy has strong competitive advantages over other nations–and also opportunities for innovation.
For the most recent four-digit HTS code data, please see the Searchable List of Italy’s Most Valuable Exports Products section in the Italy’s Top 10 Exports article. For a link to that article, see the See also paragraph above Research Sources below.
Highest Value Italian Export Products
Below are the 20 highest value export products shipped from Italy in 2017. Shown within brackets is the year-over-year increase in value for each item.
- Medication mixes in dosage: US$18.3 billion (up 10.2% since 2016)
- Cars: $18 billion (up 18.6%)
- Processed petroleum oils: $14.5 billion (up 38.1%)
- Automobile parts/accessories: $13.7 billion (up 9%)
- Footwear (leather): $7.7 billion (up 1.6%)
- Taps, valves, similar appliances: $7.6 billion (up 4.7%)
- Cases, handbags, wallets: $7.5 billion (up 14.6%)
- Miscellaneous furniture: $7.2 billion (up 4.7%)
- Jewelry: $7 billion (up 15.4%)
- Wine: $6.8 billion (up 9%)
- Dishwashing, clean/dry/fill machines: $6.4 billion (up 8.2%)
- Blood fractions (including antisera): $6.3 billion (up 74.4%)
- Miscellaneous machinery: $5.5 billion (up 8.1%)
- Trucks: $5.3 billion (up 2.7%)
- Unglazed ceramic goods: $4.6 billion (up 142.6%)
- Air or vacuum pumps: $4.4 billion (down -2.2%)
- Liquid pumps and elevators: $4.2 billion (up 7.8%)
- Temperature-change machines: $4.1 billion (up 14.7%)
- Turbo-jets: $3.9 billion (up 3.9%)
- Miscellaneous iron or steel tubes, pipes: $3.6 billion (up 17.1%)
Unglazed ceramic goods posted the greatest percentage increase in value, up 142.6% from 2016 to 2017.
In second place were blood fractions including antisera up 74.4%.
Italy’s shipments of refined petroleum oils rose in value by 38.1% followed by the 18.6% gain for exported cars.
Overall, the average increase including all Italian exports was 9.7% since 2016.
See also Italy’s Top Trading Partners, Italy’s Top 10 Exports, Italy’s Top 10 Major Export Companies and Italy’s Top 10 Imports
Research Sources:
International Monetary Fund, World Economic Outlook Database (GDP based on Purchasing Power Parity). Accessed on March 22, 2018
The World Factbook, Field Listing: Exports and World Population, Central Intelligence Agency. Accessed on March 22, 2018
Trade Map, International Trade Centre, www.intracen.org/marketanalysis. Accessed on March 22, 2018