Italy: main partners for cosmetic exports 2024| ��ƽ��

Leading countries for Italian cosmetic industry exports from 2014 to 2024 (in million euros)

Characteristic	2014	2015	2016	2017	2018	2019	2020	2021	2022	2023	2024
United States	249	326	405	417	499	513	414	528	731	962	1,147
France	390	438	470	596	636	615	504	552	625	704	797
Germany	393	421	529	516	549	566	448	498	531	700	757
Spain	214	263	283	296	304	305	246	276	340	424	534
United Kingdom	268	318	338	331	338	357	268	271	311	372	399
Poland	107	123	140	156	172	165	155	176	257	307	328
Russia	139	120	139	136	131	-	-	-	-	183	311
United Arab Emirates	117	135	152	152	147	139	103	141	226	307	304
Netherlands	117	130	151	171	176	172	165	225	271	249	253
Hong Kong	112	148	156	198	244	243	244	298	225	250	250

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July 2025

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Italy

Survey time period

2014 to 2024

Supplementary notes

Source shows the first ten leading countries. Thus, data on some countries might be not be available if in the reference year they did not rank among the first ten.

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In 2024 with over 1.1 billion euros of cosmetics imported, the United States was the leading destination country for Italian cosmetics. The second most important destination market was France, where Italian companies exported more than 797 million euros worth of cosmetics. The exports of the Italian cosmetics industry increased steadily in the last few years. In 2023, exports of the sector reached a total value of about seven billion euros.

Cosmetics industry in Italy

The cosmetics industry in Italy is well established and registers increasing revenues year-on-year. Preliminary data shows that the turnover of the cosmetics and perfumes industry in Italy reached a value of over eight billion euros in 2024, experiencing an increase by around seven percent compared to the previous year.

Italians love cosmetics

In Italy, appearance and skin care and body care seem to be a prominent sector. Data show that the consumption of cosmetics products in the country reached a value of over 12.5 billion euros in 2023. Furthermore, a closer look at the most popular product categories reveals that face care products were the preferred products by Italians.