(Finance) – The food exports in 2023 they score a new one record after the all-time high of 60.7 billion euro registered last year thanks to the symbolic products of Mediterranean diet such as wine, pasta and fresh fruit and vegetables that rise to the podium of the best-selling Italian specialties abroad. This is what emerges from the analysis of the Coldiretti on Istat data relating to the first quarter of 2023 during which food exports grew much more than the average.
Among the main countries, to have grown the most in 2023 – underlines Coldiretti – are the food exports in France, with a leap of 21% ahead of the Germany (+16%), at Great Britain (+14%) and the United States (+9%). Overall the Germany however, it remains the main food outlet market with a value of 9.4 billion in 2022 ahead of the United States with 6.7 billion which exceeds by measure – Coldiretti highlights – France which is in third place 6.6 billion . Positive results – specifies Coldiretti – also in the United Kingdom with 4.2 billion which highlights how Italian exports have proved to be stronger than Brexit, after the initial difficulties linked to leaving the EU.
In the world, the Italian export champion is confirmed as the wine for a value of 7.9 billion euros in 2022, according to the analysis by Coldiretti, thanks to a 10% growth in overseas sales. In second place are pasta and other derivatives from cereals with 7.8 billion euros, while in third position – continues Coldiretti – are fresh fruit and vegetables with 5.7 billion euros of exports, followed by processed fruit and vegetables with 4.8 billion, cheeses at 4.4 billion euros, extra virgin olive oil at 1.8 billion, cured meats at 0.9 billion.
A success that is under attack according to Coldiretti since health terrorism on wine and cured meats, traffic light labels that reject Italian excellence, new regulations on packaging and green extremism with farms equated to large polluting industries, up to the ban on trawling until the possible arrival of artificial products .
“The contribution of Made in Italy agri-food production to exports and to the country’s growth could be much higher and for this reason we need to seize the opportunity of the Pnrr to modernize national logistics and act on Italy’s structural delays by unlocking all the infrastructures to improve connections between the south and north of the country, but also with the rest of the world by sea and high-speed rail, with a network of hubs made up of airports, trains and cargo” said the president of Coldiretti Ettore Prandini.