Italy Trade Surplus Widens, Still Misses Forecasts

2025-08-11 09:33 By Luisa Carvalho 1 min. read

Italy posted a trade surplus of €5.41 billion in June 2025, larger than €5.15 billion in the same month of the previous year, though below the expected €7.12 billion.

Exports rose by 4.9% year-on-year to €54.4 billion, with shipments increasing from the EU (4.6%), notably Spain (+12%) and France (+6.7%), alongside non-EU countries (5.2%), of which the US (+10.3%), the UK (+10.1%) and Switzerland (+18.4%).

The biggest positive contributions came from pharmaceuticals, chemical-medicinal products, and botanicals (+39.0%), transportation equipment excluding motor vehicles (+15.9%); food, beverages, and tobacco (+6.0%), and electrical appliances (+3.5%). Meanwhile, imports grew by 4.8% to €49 billion, driven mainly by a 10.1% surge in sales to non-EU countries, especially the US (+45.7%), China (+25.8%) and Turkey (+10.6%) which outpaced a modest 1.2% increase in exports to EU countries.



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