The country is the world's sixth highest exporter, with US$546.9 billion exports in 2008, and the fifth world's largest industrial goods producer with a US$381 billion output in 2008. Also, the country exports and produces the highest level of wine, exporting over 1,793 tonnes. Italy was responsible for producing approximately one-fifth of world wine production in 2005.

Italy's major exports are precision machinery, motor vehicles (utilitaries, luxury vehicles, motorcycles, scooters), chemicals and electric goods, but the country's more famous exports are in the fields of food and clothing. Italy's closest trade ties are with the other countries of the European Union, with whom it conducts about 59% of its total trade. Italy's largest EU trade partners, in order of market share, are Germany (12.9%), France (11.4%), and Spain (7.4%).

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