"The number of exporting companies has steadily decreased in recent years, by 3.3% between 2016 and 2019, from 127 thousand to 123 thousand. In particular, the number of small companies has decreased (-4.3%), while medium and large companies that export have grown (+7.7%).There is a number of companies that could export and do not, which we estimate at between 44 and 48 thousand units, which means that a piece of export is missing of our country, equal to 7% more, between 40 and 44 billion".
So the secretary general of Unioncamere, Giuseppe Tripoli, in a hearing at the Productive Activities commission of the Chamber.
"Having lost this share of small exporting companies is a loss in perspective for our country", he underlined, explaining that "the internationalization strategy needs to be rethought. ICE has done a great job in recent years, however for the smaller companies there is not the feasibility of active support as for those that export more and are larger in size.
Until 2016-2017 it was the chambers of commerce that supported small businesses in the internationalization process, then a law was introduced which introduced a ban.
It is a rule that no longer makes sense today". Among the proposals put forward by Unioncamere is the strengthening of the "desks for the protection of intellectual property, entrusting their management to the Italian chambers abroad".