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Trade between Bosnia and Herzegovina and Italy

In 2024, Bosnia and Herzegovina exported $688 million to Italy and imported $2 billion. Bosnia and Herzegovina ran a deficit of $1.3 billion with Italy, compared with a deficit of $531 million in 2019. Italy was Bosnia and Herzegovina’s 3rd largest trading partner (11% of its trade), and Bosnia and Herzegovina was Italy’s 59th (0.2%).

Summary

Bosnia and Herzegovina → Italy
$688million
Italy → Bosnia and Herzegovina
$2billion
Bosnia and Herzegovina’s balance
-$1.3billion

Balance

Bosnia and Herzegovina’s trade balance with Italy

Trade between Bosnia and Herzegovina and Italy grew 31.9-fold since 1995

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

  • Exports 0.7
  • Imports 2
  • Balance -1.3

Source: CEPII BACI

Show the numbers
YearExportsImportsTrade balance
1995$16 million$69 million-$53 million
1996$48 million$214 million-$165 million
1997$89 million$273 million-$185 million
1998$121 million$268 million-$147 million
1999$180 million$294 million-$114 million
2000$237 million$316 million-$79 million
2001$242 million$348 million-$106 million
2002$287 million$384 million-$96 million
2003$352 million$383 million-$31 million
2004$399 million$476 million-$77 million
2005$430 million$645 million-$216 million
2006$506 million$695 million-$189 million
2007$626 million$894 million-$268 million
2008$742 million$1.1 billion-$397 million
2009$598 million$855 million-$258 million
2010$696 million$829 million-$133 million
2011$784 million$982 million-$198 million
2012$649 million$942 million-$293 million
2013$780 million$1 billion-$227 million
2014$871 million$1.1 billion-$254 million
2015$773 million$993 million-$220 million
2016$821 million$1.1 billion-$256 million
2017$831 million$1.2 billion-$343 million
2018$979 million$1.3 billion-$332 million
2019$804 million$1.3 billion-$531 million
2020$736 million$1.2 billion-$427 million
2021$1.3 billion$1.6 billion-$259 million
2022$957 million$1.9 billion-$928 million
2023$807 million$2.1 billion-$1.3 billion
2024$688 million$2 billion-$1.3 billion

What they sell each other

What Bosnia and Herzegovina sells to Italy

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

  1. Screws, bolts and nuts$41 million · 6%
    8 thousand tonnes
  2. Footwear parts$36 million · 5.2%
    658 tonnes
  3. Leather footwear$35 million · 5.1%
    1 thousand tonnes
  4. 9 thousand tonnes
  5. Rubber and plastic footwear$31 million · 4.6%
    229 tonnes
  6. Auto parts$28 million · 4.1%
    4 thousand tonnes · Italy’s sources
  7. Carbonates$22 million · 3.3%
    66 thousand tonnes
  8. 1 thousand tonnes
  9. Seats and chairs$22 million · 3.1%
    5 thousand tonnes
  10. Firewood and wood chips$22 million · 3.1%
    185 thousand tonnes

What Italy sells to Bosnia and Herzegovina

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

  1. Refined petroleum$647 million · 31.8%
    776 thousand tonnes · Italy’s destinations
  2. Copper wire$77 million · 3.8%
    8 thousand tonnes
  3. Fresh beef$67 million · 3.3%
    13 thousand tonnes
  4. Socks and tights$56 million · 2.7%
    2 thousand tonnes
  5. Footwear parts$29 million · 1.4%
    1 thousand tonnes
  6. 736 tonnes · Italy’s destinations
  7. Hot-rolled flat steel$27 million · 1.3%
    32 thousand tonnes
  8. Tanned cattle hides$24 million · 1.2%
    1 thousand tonnes
  9. Other knitted fabric$22 million · 1.1%
    365 tonnes
  10. 19 thousand tonnes

How it travels

Estimated sea route from Neum to Genoa.

The estimated sea route between Neum and Genoa is 958 nautical miles (1,774 km) long: ≈ 2–3 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$2.5 billion · 91.8%
  2. Air$224 million · 8.2%

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

How much each matters to the other

Italy was Bosnia and Herzegovina’s 3rd largest trading partner (11% of its trade), and Bosnia and Herzegovina was Italy’s 59th (0.2%).

Italy in Bosnia and Herzegovina’s trade
10.6%
Italy’s rank among Bosnia and Herzegovina’s partners
3rd
Bosnia and Herzegovina in Italy’s trade
0.2%
Bosnia and Herzegovina’s rank among Italy’s partners
59th

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Sources and methodology

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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.