What does Italy produce and export?

What does Italy produce?

What does Italy export?

Italy's own tracked-export mix

Unlike the chart above, this treemap sizes each commodity by its share of Italy's own $26.8 billion of tracked exports, not by world trade. Cheese alone is 21% of it. See the full export dependency report for how Italy compares with other countries.

Top-ten importer of

• Feldspar: #1, 19% of world imports, $128.4 million (2024)
• Olive oil: #1, 20% of world imports, $3.2 billion (2024)
• Fluorspar: #2, 18% of world imports, $91.9 million (2024)
• Hazelnuts: #2, 19% of world imports, $434.4 million (2024)
• Pork: #2, 8% of world imports, $3 billion (2024)
• Steel: #2, 5.9% of world imports, $4.1 billion (2024)
• Cheese: #3, 6.3% of world imports, $2.8 billion (2024)
• Coffee: #3, 7.7% of world imports, $2.6 billion (2024)
• Silk: #3, 9.8% of world imports, $36.3 million (2024)
• Wool: #3, 4.1% of world imports, $116.8 million (2024)
• Almonds: #4, 6% of world imports, $315.4 million (2024)
• Barite: #4, 3.9% of world imports, $36 million (2024)
• Wheat: #4, 4.4% of world imports, $2.5 billion (2024)
• Beryllium: #5, 0.5% of world imports, $129,389 (2024)
• Natural gas: #5, 6.2% of world imports, $29.3 billion (2024)
• Quinoa: #5, 4.7% of world imports, $14 million (2024)
• Salmon: #5, 7.4% of world imports, $1.2 billion (2024)
• Sawnwood: #5, 3.5% of world imports, $1.3 billion (2024)
• Antimony: #6, 3.5% of world imports, $16.6 million (2024)
• Pistachios: #6, 3.9% of world imports, $133 million (2024)
• Potatoes: #6, 5.1% of world imports, $367.8 million (2024)
• Sorghum: #6, 1% of world imports, $27.3 million (2024)
• Sunflower oil: #6, 4.6% of world imports, $864.2 million (2024)
• Bismuth: #7, 4.6% of world imports, $2.4 million (2024)
• Palladium: #7, 5.4% of world imports, $702.5 million (2024)
• Palm oil: #7, 3% of world imports, $1.3 billion (2024)
• Shrimp: #7, 2.8% of world imports, $887.9 million (2024)
• Sugar: #7, 2.7% of world imports, $1.2 billion (2024)
• Vanadium: #7, 5.3% of world imports, $35.3 million (2024)
• Vanilla: #7, 2% of world imports, $9.3 million (2024)
• Aluminum: #8, 4.3% of world imports, $3.4 billion (2024)
• Avocados: #8, 1.7% of world imports, $161.1 million (2024)
• Corn: #8, 3.6% of world imports, $1.7 billion (2024)
• Iridium: #8, 1.9% of world imports, $42.7 million (2024)
• Linseed: #8, 2.3% of world imports, $28.9 million (2024)
• Nickel: #8, 4.5% of world imports, $644.2 million (2024)
• Palm kernel oil: #8, 2.5% of world imports, $27.4 million (2024)
• Pineapples: #8, 4.4% of world imports, $124.6 million (2024)
• Rhodium: #8, 4% of world imports, $299.2 million (2024)
• Zirconium: #8, 2.9% of world imports, $49.3 million (2024)
• Crude oil: #9, 2.4% of world imports, $32.4 billion (2024)
• Honey: #9, 3% of world imports, $68.2 million (2024)
• Bananas: #10, 3.5% of world imports, $553 million (2024)
• Coconut oil: #10, 2.4% of world imports, $191.2 million (2024)
• Lamb: #10, 2.4% of world imports, $215.4 million (2024)
• Magnesium: #10, 3.5% of world imports, $32.3 million (2024)
• Niobium: #10, 1.7% of world imports, $59 million (2024)
• Orange juice: #10, 2.1% of world imports, $38.2 million (2024)
• Plantains: #10, 2.7% of world imports, $30.1 million (2024)
• Platinum: #10, 3.1% of world imports, $453.9 million (2024)
• Plywood: #10, 2.6% of world imports, $441.2 million (2024)
• Tomatoes: #10, 1.7% of world imports, $204.3 million (2024)

Sources: FAOSTAT (crops and livestock), USGS Mineral Commodity Summaries (minerals), Energy Institute Statistical Review (energy) for production; CEPII BACI for trade. Ranks count only the commodities on this site.

Italy commodity by commodity

One page for each commodity where Italy is a top-five producer or exporter with at least 3% of the world total.

• Apples #2 exporter
• Cheese #4 producer, #2 exporter
• Feldspar #5 producer
• Grapes #2 producer
• Hazelnuts #2 producer, #3 exporter
• Olive oil #2 producer, #2 exporter
• Orange juice #3 exporter
• Palladium #5 exporter
• Platinum #4 exporter
• Silk #3 exporter

Italy in the pattern reports

What the cross-commodity reports under Patterns say about Italy, computed from the same data as this page.

What Italy uses

Italy had about 59 million people and a food supply of 3,753 kilocalories per person a day in FAO's 2023 food balance sheets. Its eight largest supplies among the commodities tracked there:

FAOSTAT Food Balance Sheets. Per-person rank counts countries of at least 1 million people. See consumption and self-sufficiency.

Who supplies Italy

• Single-supplier markets. Italy buys half or more of its imports from one country in 6 of 39 import markets of $250 million or more, among them olive oil from Spain (57%, $3.2 billion); soybeans from Brazil (52%, $1.2 billion); nickel from Netherlands (55%, $644 million); hazelnuts from Turkey (Türkiye) (66%, $434 million); almonds from United States (52%, $315 million); rhodium from South Africa (64%, $299 million). Import dependency.
• A new largest supplier. crude oil: Russia (16% in 2022) to Libya (21% in 2024); steel: France (19% in 2022) to Germany (14% in 2024). Supplier shifts.

Downloads and citation

This country's rankings as JSON · PDF summary. Cite as: Commodity Origins, "What does Italy produce and export?", https://commodityorigins.com/countries/ITA/ (CC BY 4.0).

Data updated 22 October 2026.

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