Federvini: wine exports up 180% in 20 years (spirits up 300%)
Producers call for a duty-free international market and promote a culture of moderate consumption against the trend of 'neo-prohibitionism'
by G.d.O.
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Relaunching the promotion of wine and spirits made in Italy abroad and spreading the culture of moderate consumption in line with the principles of the Mediterranean Diet. These are the pillars of the future development of one of the key sectors of the Made in Italy agro-food industry that were at the centre of the General Assembly of Federvini, the Italian Federation of Producers, Exporters and Importers of Wines, Spirits, Liqueurs, Syrups, Vinegars and Vinegar-like Products, held today, 5 June, in Rome.
The wine, spirits and vinegar sector is worth a total of €21.5 billion in turnover, 2,600 companies, 30,000 employees and 21% of Italian Food & Beverage exports with performance in twenty years that has been +180% for wine and +300% for spirits.
"We are going through a year full of novelties and changes," said the president of Federvini, Micaela Pallini - first and foremost the now imminent European elections and, in the autumn, the US presidential elections. In the meantime, geopolitical, trade and economic tensions risk impacting the activities of supply chains that are fundamental for the Italian agri-food industry. Much is being done by our companies to maintain their production capacity, I am thinking for example of investments in internationalisation, research and sustainability'.
To face the dimension of international challenges - according to Federvini - we need rules capable of ensuring free competition on the markets without giving in to neo-prohibitionist tendencies and the logic of duties. For this reason, free trade agreements with new partners are fundamental on the one hand, in the wake of the positive experience of the Ceta defined with Canada (for Italian wines, growth of 7.6% in the 2018-2022 period) and, on the other, moral suasion action, also thanks to the Italian G7 presidency, to prevent trade disputes originating in other sectors from having repercussions on agro-food production.
Among the threats to be tackled, according to Federvini, are the regulations on health warnings, packaging up to labelling and the Regulation on Geographical Indications.
