With an unprecedented double-digit increase, by 2021 Italian food exports will reach the target of 50 billion euro – set for 2020 and blocked by the pandemic outbreak. Ivano Vacondio (in the photo above), president of Federalimentare (the association of Italian food industries) comments on the records that Italian food sales are breaking abroad: “These numbers make us proud and satisfied, even if they do not take us by surprise. We knew that the goal was close”.

According to latest ISTAT data, Italian exports of non-durable consumer goods, of which food represents a large part, grew by +15.2% in June 2021 compared to June 2020 (when agri-food exports had increased by +1.6%). In the six-month period, the trend increase is +11.5% (compared to +2.2% in 2020). Among the markets to which Italy exported the most were the USA, which registered a +6.4% increase in the period January-April, while Germany (up +2.8%), and France (+2%) strengthened their previous quarterly performances.