(6 Feb) – The Southern Italy on the way to Russia. A mission of agricultural businessmen of the province of Ragusa leaves today for Moscow. The mission will introduce the Italian food excellence to the Russian economic system, and will present regional products from the area of the province of Ragusa to promote future economic and cultural relations. The initiative, organized by the Chamber of Commerce, will reach its defining moment from 8 to 10 February, with a workshop that will serve as ‘glue’ for the Russian market and allow a face to face with buyers and major retail chains in Moscow. The program drawn up by the Chamber of Commerce is also a “country presentation” curated by experts of the delegation, Giovanna Licitra, head of the Chamber promoting area, Massimiliano Barone, an expert of food export, and Luigi Gurrieri, food technologist. They will illustrate to Russian economic operators the main features of the agricultural food production of Sicily and especially of the province of Ragusa. Not to mention the different forms of possible cooperation and partnership between Italian and foreign operators wishing to acquire and understand the know-how and the quality of Italian products. (Ram)
GROWING TRADE RELATIONS WITH RUSSIA
Trade relations between Italy and Russia are growing. The latest bulletin released by Istat, on December 2011, highlight the positive trend. According to numbers from the National Institute of Statistics, the most dynamic trading partners were Switzerland (+25.8%), United States (+18.2%), DAE (+15.6%), Russia (+ 13.5%) and China (+12.7%). At the first two places among the products exported from Italy: general purpose machines (5.6%) and special purpose machines (5.0%). Also the export of food products is improving, which – according to Coldiretti – has reached a historic record in 2011, with 30 billion in exports and an increase of 9%.
