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ITALY REMAINS ONE OF SERBIA'S LEADING ECONOMIC PARTNERS MARKO ČADEŽ
President of the Chamber of Commerce and Industry of Serbia (CCIS)
Although mutual trade fell by 12-13% compared to 2019, last year's trade amounted to almost 3.4 billion euro
taly and Serbia have been having traditionally good economic cooperation and sound geographical knowledge about each other. Italy has been continuously providing support to Serbia on its road to EU membership, and Italian companies are ready to contribute to propelling the Serbian economy. We talked with the President of the Chamber of Commerce and Industry of Serbia (CCIS), Marko Čadež, about the cooperation between our two countries, especially during the pandemic, as well as the
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further improvement of bilateral economic relations.
POTENTIAL ITALIAN INVESTORS, WHO ANNOUNCED THEIR ARRIVAL EARLIER, ARE NOT GIVING UP ON THE PLANNED INVESTMENTS
How would you rate the cooperation between Italy and Serbia, especially in the past year since we were all affected by the Covid-19-induced crisis? Even during the pandemic, Italy remained one of Serbia's leading economic partners in the world - both in trade and investments. In 2020, Italy was the second biggest external trade partner of Serbia in terms of total trade and the second export market for Serbian products. Despite all the problems that the export of goods from Italy to Serbia and vice versa en-
