{"id":254156,"date":"2025-07-06T16:12:27","date_gmt":"2025-07-06T14:12:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sada.ly\/en\/?p=254156"},"modified":"2025-07-07T16:17:38","modified_gmt":"2025-07-07T14:17:38","slug":"nova-agency-italy-confirms-its-leading-trade-position-in-libya-ranking-first-among-countries","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sada.ly\/en\/nova-agency-italy-confirms-its-leading-trade-position-in-libya-ranking-first-among-countries\/","title":{"rendered":"Nova Agency: Italy Confirms Its Leading Trade Position in Libya, Ranking First Among Countries"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Italian news agency <em>Nova<\/em> reported on Sunday that Italy reaffirmed its position as Libya&#8217;s main trading partner during the first quarter of 2025. Despite a slight decrease in total trade volume, a study conducted by Italy&#8217;s foreign trade promotion agency \u201cICE-Agency,\u201d based on data from the Italian Institute of Statistics (Istat) and the Ministry of Trade and Industry (Tdm) \u2014 and reviewed by Nova \u2014 shows a strong and interlinked economic relationship between the two countries, although trends vary across import sectors.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The agency confirmed that total trade between Italy and Libya reached \u20ac2.12 billion in the first three months of the year, representing an 18.51% market share \u2014 a slight decrease of 5.37% compared to the same period in 2024. Nevertheless, this figure solidifies Italy&#8217;s lead, ahead of:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Germany: \u20ac1.36 billion (10.61% market share)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>China: \u20ac1.11 billion (20.63%)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Greece: \u20ac859 million (7.91%)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Turkey: \u20ac840 million (25.6%)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Nova also reported that Italian exports to Libya amounted to \u20ac440 million, capturing an 8.35% share \u2014 a slight decrease compared to 2024. Italy remains the third-largest exporter to Libya after:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>China: \u20ac884 million (36%)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Turkey: \u20ac750 million (34%)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">However, it holds the top spot among European partners, ahead of:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Greece: \u20ac293 million (+30.5%)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Netherlands: \u20ac223 million (+152%)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Germany: \u20ac214 million (+55%)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">As for imports, Italy brought in \u20ac1.77 billion worth of Libyan goods from January to March 2025 \u2014 a slight decline of 2.49% compared to the same period in 2024 \u2014 maintaining a market share of 23.37%. This confirms Rome\u2019s status as Libya\u2019s largest partner, ahead of:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Greece: 5.55%<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Netherlands: 4.22%<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Germany: 15.69% (down 55.9%)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Nova added that in terms of sectoral breakdown, oil continues to dominate, with refined oil exports amounting to \u20ac174 million \u2014 a 35.2% decrease \u2014 yet still accounting for 40% of Italy&#8217;s total exports to Libya.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">On the other hand, the mechanical sector is seeing strong growth:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Multi-purpose machinery: \u20ac56 million (+54.5%)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Electrical equipment: \u20ac55 million (+79.2%)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This marks fertile ground for strengthening Italy&#8217;s technological role in the Libyan market.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The agency also noted notable growth in:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Automotive sector: \u20ac16.8 million (+66.9%)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Furniture: \u20ac6.6 million (+13.1%)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The chemical and pharmaceutical sectors also performed well:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Chemical exports: \u20ac14 million (+36.5%)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Pharmaceutical exports: \u20ac8.7 million (+22.9%)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">As for the agri-food sector \u2014 historically Italy\u2019s third-largest export sector to Tripoli \u2014 sales reached \u20ac51 million, a slight decline of 5% compared to Q1 of 2024.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Italian news agency Nova reported on Sunday that Italy reaffirmed its position as Libya&#8217;s main trading partner during the first quarter of 2025. Despite a slight decrease in total trade volume, a study conducted by Italy&#8217;s foreign trade promotion agency \u201cICE-Agency,\u201d based on data from the Italian Institute of Statistics (Istat) and the Ministry [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":254157,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[124],"tags":[613,905],"class_list":["post-254156","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-reports","tag-libya","tag-trade"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sada.ly\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/254156","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sada.ly\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sada.ly\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sada.ly\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sada.ly\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=254156"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sada.ly\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/254156\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":254158,"href":"https:\/\/sada.ly\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/254156\/revisions\/254158"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sada.ly\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/254157"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sada.ly\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=254156"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sada.ly\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=254156"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sada.ly\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=254156"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}