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Trade between Albania and Italy

In 2024, Albania exported $1.5 billion to Italy and imported $2 billion. Albania ran a deficit of $483 million with Italy, compared with a deficit of $71 million in 2019. Italy was Albania’s largest trading partner (27% of its trade), and Albania was Italy’s 56th (0.3%).

Summary

Albania → Italy
$1.5billion
Italy → Albania
$2billion
Albania’s balance
-$483million

Balance

Albania’s trade balance with Italy

Trade between Albania and Italy grew 8.1-fold since 1995

USD billions (current). Albania’s exports and imports; bars: its balance (green surplus, red deficit).

  • Exports 1.5
  • Imports 2
  • Balance -0.5

Source: CEPII BACI

Show the numbers
YearExportsImportsTrade balance
1995$116 million$312 million-$196 million
1996$194 million$431 million-$238 million
1997$146 million$310 million-$164 million
1998$181 million$378 million-$197 million
1999$213 million$398 million-$185 million
2000$197 million$397 million-$200 million
2001$252 million$439 million-$187 million
2002$294 million$529 million-$235 million
2003$361 million$643 million-$282 million
2004$476 million$789 million-$314 million
2005$509 million$790 million-$281 million
2006$605 million$941 million-$337 million
2007$734 million$1.2 billion-$443 million
2008$842 million$1.4 billion-$588 million
2009$728 million$1.2 billion-$494 million
2010$807 million$1.3 billion-$503 million
2011$977 million$1.6 billion-$660 million
2012$940 million$1.6 billion-$616 million
2013$1.1 billion$1.6 billion-$501 million
2014$1.2 billion$1.4 billion-$205 million
2015$916 million$1.3 billion-$395 million
2016$1.1 billion$1.4 billion-$342 million
2017$1.2 billion$1.3 billion-$128 million
2018$1.3 billion$1.3 billion$38 million
2019$1.3 billion$1.3 billion-$71 million
2020$1.1 billion$1.4 billion-$308 million
2021$1.5 billion$1.6 billion-$126 million
2022$1.8 billion$1.3 billion$478 million
2023$1.7 billion$1.9 billion-$156 million
2024$1.5 billion$2 billion-$483 million

What they sell each other

What Albania sells to Italy

The top 10 headings in 2024, with their share of the total.

  1. Footwear parts$255 million · 17%
    9 thousand tonnes
  2. Leather footwear$135 million · 9%
    8 thousand tonnes
  3. Men's suits and trousers$64 million · 4.2%
    2 thousand tonnes
  4. Cables and wire$47 million · 3.1%
    2 thousand tonnes · Italy’s sources
  5. Women's suits and dresses$46 million · 3.1%
    1 thousand tonnes
  6. Unwrought aluminum$37 million · 2.5%
    14 thousand tonnes · Italy’s sources
  7. Paper boxes and packaging$35 million · 2.4%
    9 thousand tonnes
  8. Padlocks, locks and keys$33 million · 2.2%
    2 thousand tonnes
  9. Prepared fish and caviar$33 million · 2.2%
    4 thousand tonnes
  10. T-shirts$33 million · 2.2%
    2 thousand tonnes

What Italy sells to Albania

The top 10 headings in 2024, with their share of the total.

  1. Tanned cattle hides$66 million · 3.3%
    3 thousand tonnes
  2. Footwear parts$57 million · 2.9%
    5 thousand tonnes
  3. Cars$52 million · 2.6%
    15 thousand tonnes · Italy’s destinations
  4. Cables and wire$50 million · 2.5%
    6 thousand tonnes · Italy’s destinations
  5. Padlocks, locks and keys$41 million · 2.1%
    3 thousand tonnes
  6. 637 tonnes · Italy’s destinations
  7. Refined petroleum$39 million · 1.9%
    48 thousand tonnes · Italy’s destinations
  8. Plastic-coated fabric$34 million · 1.7%
    3 thousand tonnes
  9. Coffee$30 million · 1.5%
    3 thousand tonnes · Italy’s destinations
  10. Pet and animal feed$28 million · 1.4%
    21 thousand tonnes

How it travels

Estimated sea route from Porto Romano to Genoa.

The estimated sea route between Porto Romano and Genoa is 814 nautical miles (1,508 km) long: ≈ 2–2.5 days at sea (at 18 and 14 knots).

It does not cross any major canal or strait.

Sailing estimate without port calls, waiting or transshipment; not a schedule. One main reference port per country: in large countries it does not represent all of its ports.

Split by transport mode

  1. Sea$3.2 billion · 91.5%
  2. Air$297 million · 8.5%

Mode estimated from value per kilo and geography; both directions together.

How much each matters to the other

Italy was Albania’s largest trading partner (27% of its trade), and Albania was Italy’s 56th (0.3%).

Italy in Albania’s trade
26.8%
Italy’s rank among Albania’s partners
1st
Albania in Italy’s trade
0.3%
Albania’s rank among Italy’s partners
56th

Compare with

Other partners of Albania

Sources and methodology

Sources and licenses

Methodology

Goods trade from CEPII BACI (BACI_HS92_V202601), in current US dollars, with exports and imports reconciled between countries. The transport mode is our own estimate based on value per kilo and geography. The sea route comes from our own network derived from World Bank shipping density (not from nautical charts), between one main reference port per country (World Port Index); days are the distance at 14 and 18 knots, without port calls or waiting. Data up to 2024.