About Italy Exports
Italy exports mostly machinery and equipment (18 percent of total exports); transport (11 percent); base metals and metal products (11 percent); textiles, clothing, leather and accessories (11 percent); food, beverages and tobacco (8 percent); chemicals (7 percent); rubber and plastic products, other non-metallic mineral products (6 percent); and pharmaceutical, chemical-medicinal and botanical articles (6 percent). Main export partners were: Germany (12 percent of total exports), France (10 percent), the United States (9 percent), Spain, the UK and Switzerland (5 percent each), and Belgium, China and Poland (3 percent each).