Italy's Top Exports To The US

Thinking about it a little more, I regret that comment in the previous post about Italian exports and olive oil. Obviously, we get a lot of stuff from Italy that's not olive oil. According this, here are the top Italian exports to the US by dollar volume (Update: as of 2006):

1. Medicinal, dental and pharmaceutical preparations …US$1.78 billion (5.5% of Italy to U.S. exports, down 3.5% from 2005)
2. Industrial machines … $1.76 billion (5.4%, up 11%)
3. Other petroleum products … $1.4 billion (4.3%, up 28.9%)
4. Miscellaneous household goods (e.g. clocks) … $1.3 billion (4%, up 17.2%)
5. Wine & related products … $1.2 billion (3.7%, up 9.2%)
6. Footwear … $1.1 billion (3.3%, down 2.2%)
7. Jewellery … $959.5 million (2.9%, down 1.1%)
8. Household furniture … $915.6 million (2.8%, down 14.6%)
9. Industrial engines, pumps, generators … $774.8 million (2.4%, up 1.9%)
10. Stone, sand, cement, lime … $681.4 million (2.1%, up 1.8%)

So there you go... as far as I can tell, olive oil doesn't even make the top ten.

Comments

[TheUnrepentantGunner]

Well, obviously, thats only the official count.

The Corleone's alone did about 500 million of olive oil imports from italy to be resold, but forgot to record it somehow...