(Finance) – Definitely positive numbers for Italian agri-food exports which have grown by 7.6% per year in the last 10 years: an average annual increase higher than the global one, equal to +5.6% over the decade. And, for Made in Italy agri-food, the market share went from 2.8% in 2012 to 3.4% in 2022.
It is the photograph taken from the report on Italian agri-food presented today at Rome from Ismea. The weight of Italian exports on community shipments stands at 10%, like that of Spain, lower than that of France and Germany. But in general, and in almost all of the main purchasing countries, Italy has improved its competitive positioning. In the most recent three-year period, between 2019 and 2022, Italian agri-food exports increased by 34%, exceeding the record of 60 billion euros in 2022 and, in the same period, imports grew by 37%. The agri-food trade balance, adds Ismea, has improved in the three-year period, with the balance in surplus in 2020 and 2021; while in 2022 the balance returned to negative, albeit slightly.
In comparison with European partnersi, the German agri-food sector is the one that shows the highest level of international commercial integration; France, on the contrary, is the country most oriented towards its internal market (apart from wines).