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How dependent is the United Kingdom on Italy?

In 2024, Italy sold $31.6 billion to the United Kingdom, 4.4% of its imports, ranking 5th among its suppliers. Its share was 4% in 2019 and 5.1% in 1995. In 6 products it sells more than 50% of what the United Kingdom buys of them (in 1, more than 75%); what the United Kingdom buys from Italy in those products (dominated value) adds up to $1.3 billion, 0.17% of its imports.

Summary

Share of its imports
4.4%
Value imported
$31.6billion
Rank among its suppliers
5th
Products where it sells over 50%
6
Products where it sells over 75%
1
Dominated value
$1.3billion
Share of total imports
0.2%

Trend

Italy went from 5.1% to 4.4% of what the United Kingdom buys

Trend in shares

Italy went from 5.1% to 4.4% of what the United Kingdom buys

Share (%)

  • Italy 4.4%

Source: CEPII BACI

Show the numbers
YearValue (USD millions)ShareRank
199513,4305.1%6
199615,2585.3%5
199716,1725.3%5
199816,7945.3%5
199915,8494.9%5
200016,2484.5%7
200115,4884.4%8
200217,1064.7%8
200320,0884.8%7
200424,2895%7
200523,4674.6%7
200624,5984.2%8
200727,5424.3%8
200827,3414.1%8
200920,6564.2%8
201022,8203.9%8
201124,0553.6%8
201222,6263.6%8
201324,8383.8%8
201428,2884.1%7
201525,0704%7
201624,1983.8%7
201724,8953.9%7
201827,0324.1%7
201926,7404%7
202024,3544%8
202126,0103.8%8
202229,4103.8%7
202329,5184%6
202431,6064.4%5

Products where Italy sells more than half

6 products, 0.17% of what it buys
ProductSupplierShareSecondValue
Cargo and cruise shipsItaly50.3%Japan · 18.3%$682 million
Tomato preservesItaly61.7%Portugal · 12.8%$481 million
Tanned cattle hidesItaly59.2%Germany · 10%$77 million
Yarn of fine animal hair, not for retail saleItaly90.2%over 75%South Africa · 4.1%$13 million
Raw flaxItaly66.2%Lithuania · 10.4%$3 million
Patent and metallized leatherItaly66.8%United States · 24%$698 thousand

A product has a dominant supplier when a single country sells more than 50% of what is bought of it; we flag it separately above 75%.

Are there other suppliers in the world?

  • Italy sells 2.4% of what the world exports of cargo and cruise ships; next come China (31%), South Korea (29.6%) and Japan (10.9%). The rest of the world exported 121.7 times what the United Kingdom buys from Italy.
  • Italy sells 39.6% of what the world exports of tomato preserves; next come China (17.1%), United States (8%) and Spain (7.6%). The rest of the world exported 9.3 times what the United Kingdom buys from Italy.
  • Italy sells 19.6% of what the world exports of tanned cattle hides; next come Brazil (10%), United States (9.4%) and China (7.6%). The rest of the world exported 132.2 times what the United Kingdom buys from Italy.
  • Italy sells 24.6% of what the world exports of yarn of fine animal hair, not for retail sale; next come China (48.3%), Hong Kong (10.3%) and Peru (4%). The rest of the world exported 22.9 times what the United Kingdom buys from Italy.
  • Italy sells 3.1% of what the world exports of raw flax; next come France (57.6%), Belgium (20.5%) and Egypt (7.7%). The rest of the world exported 703.8 times what the United Kingdom buys from Italy.
  • Italy sells 52.2% of what the world exports of patent and metallized leather; next come South Korea (13.5%), Spain (9.7%) and China (6%). The rest of the world exported 189.3 times what the United Kingdom buys from Italy.

Exports from the rest of the world already have buyers; the figure shows scale, not availability.

Seen from Italy

Italy’s 4th customer, 5% of its sales

The United Kingdom is Italy’s 4th-largest customer, with 5% of its exports.

Sources and method

CEPII BACI and 1 more

Sources and licenses

Methodology

The data come from CEPII BACI (Etalab 2.0 licence), which reconciles what the exporting and the importing country report, in current USD, FOB. Data up to 2024.

Dependence is the share of a country’s imports (or exports) that each partner accounts for. It does not measure whether a product has a substitute or how much it would cost to change supplier.

The concentration index (HHI) adds up the square of each partner’s share, in percent: it runs from 0 to 10,000. Its equivalent is 10,000 ÷ HHI, the number of partners of the same size that would give that value.

Products are HS4 headings of the 1992 nomenclature (some combine different goods), with a floor of $1 million per product and country.

The EU is the 27 current members in every year; the United Kingdom is outside the EU throughout the series.

Re-exports: countries that act as redistribution hubs carry their notice and the figures are not corrected.