Shipping from the USA to Italy

Since 1 July 2026, Regulation (EU) 2026/1455 has removed EU customs duty on industrial goods originating in the United States — machinery, medical and laboratory equipment, chemicals, parts and cars among them — and opened reduced-duty quotas for a list of US agricultural and seafood products, including tree nuts. For American cars the change is the end of the EU's 10% car duty, and Italians searching for 'importare auto dagli Stati Uniti' now pay Italian VAT and registration costs rather than duty. The rest of the lane is steady industrial trade: machinery and spare parts for Italian plants, medical and laboratory equipment, California almonds and pistachios, and the household goods of families moving to Italy. Cargo sails from New York, Savannah, Charleston and Houston, or from Los Angeles and Long Beach through the Panama Canal, to Genoa, La Spezia, Livorno, Trieste and Venice, with roll-on/roll-off sailings into Salerno.

Last reviewed: October 2026

Offices and representative on this lane:Glendale, USA

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The US end is ours. From Glendale we arrange pickup anywhere in the country, container loading at our partner warehouses, the Electronic Export Information filing in AES and, for vehicles, the title documents US Customs needs at least 72 hours before export. In Italy we work through WCA partner agents; AGF has no office there. Our partner's customs representative clears the goods, pays or defers the 22% IVA and arranges delivery, and the zero-duty claim needs evidence that the goods are of US origin under the EU's non-preferential origin rules — a car or machine sold in the US but built elsewhere does not qualify, so we check origin with you before booking. We quote door to door with the exclusions listed up front.

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