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Customs Information
Italy
- If all documents are in order and available prior to arrival of the shipment, Customer MAY NOT have to be present at time of Customs clearance
- Used household goods are usually duty-free if owned for one year, (18 months if Italian citizen), are not for resale and are imported within six months of - Customer's arrival
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Transportation
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Italy |
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Railways:
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Total: 19,507 km (11,651 km electrified)
Standard gauge: 18,070 km 1.435-m gauge (11,375 km electrified)
Narrow gauge: 123 km 1.000-m gauge (88 km electrified); 1,314 km 0.950-m gauge (188 km electrified) (2003)
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Highways:
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Total: 479,688 km
Paved: 479,688 km (including 6,621 km of expressways)
Unpaved: 0 km (1999)
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Waterways:
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2,400 km
note: used for commercial traffic; of limited overall value compared to road and rail (2004).
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Pipelines:
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Gas 17,335 km; oil 1,136 km (2004
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Ports and Harbors:
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Augusta (Sicily), Bagnoli, Bari, Brindisi, Gela (Sicily), Genoa, La Spezia, Livorno, Milazzo (Sicily), Naples, Porto Foxi, Porto Torres (Sardinia), Salerno, Savona, Taranto, Trieste, Venice.
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Merchant Marine:
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Total: 565 ships (1,000 GRT or over) 8,970,017 GRT/10,354,685 DWT
by type: bulk carrier 38, cargo 43, chemical tanker 128, combination ore/oil 1, container 19, liquefied gas 38, livestock carrier 2, passenger 16, passenger/cargo 152, petroleum tanker 53, refrigerated cargo 4, roll on/roll off 34, specialized tanker 11, vehicle carrier 26
foreign-owned: 47 (France 3, Greece 7, Monaco 2, Switzerland 5, Taiwan 8, Turkey 2, United Kingdom 5, United States 15)
registered in other countries: 125 (2005)
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Airports:
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134 (2004 est.)
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Airports -
with paved runways:
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Total: 96
over 3,047 m: 6
2,438 to 3,047 m: 32
1,524 to 2,437 m: 16
914 to 1,523 m: 30
under 914 m: 12 (2004 est.)
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Airports -
with unpaved runways:
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Total: 38
1,524 to 2,437 m: 2
914 to 1,523 m: 18
under 914 m: 18 (2004 est.)
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Heliports:
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4 (2004 est.)
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Geography
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Italy
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Location:
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Southern Europe, a peninsula extending into the central Mediterranean Sea, northeast of Tunisia.
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Geographic Coordinates:
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42 50 N, 12 50 E
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Map References:
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Europe
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Area:
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Total: 301,230 sq km
Land: 294,020 sq km
Water: 7,210 sq km
Note: includes Sardinia and Sicily
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Area Comparative:
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Slightly larger than Arizona.
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Land Boundaries:
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Total: 1,932.2 km
Border Countries: Austria 430 km, France 488 km, Holy See (Vatican City) 3.2 km, San Marino 39 km, Slovenia 232 km, Switzerland 740 km
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Coastline:
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7,600 km
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Maritime Claims:
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Territorial Sea: 12 nm
Continental Shelf: 200-m depth or to the depth of exploitation.
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Climate:
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Predominantly Mediterranean; Alpine in far north; hot, dry in south.
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Terrain:
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Mostly rugged and mountainous; some plains, coastal lowlands.
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Elevation Extremes:
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Iowest point: Mediterranean Sea 0 m
Highest point: Mont Blanc (Monte Bianco) de Courmayeur 4,748 m (a secondary peak of Mont Blanc)
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Natural Resources:
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Coal, mercury, zinc, potash, marble, barite, asbestos, pumice, fluorospar, feldspar, pyrite (sulfur), natural gas and crude oil reserves, fish, arable land.
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Land Use:
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Arable land: 27.79%
Permanent crops: 9.53%
Other: 62.68% (2001)
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Irrigated Land:
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26,980 sq km (1998 est.)
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Natural Hazards:
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regional risks include landslides, mudflows, avalanches, earthquakes, volcanic eruptions, flooding; land subsidence in Venice.
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Environment - current issues:
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Air pollution from industrial emissions such as sulfur dioxide; coastal and inland rivers polluted from industrial and agricultural effluents; acid rain damaging lakes; inadequate industrial waste treatment and disposal facilities.
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Environment - international agreements:
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Party to: Air Pollution, Air Pollution-Nitrogen Oxides, Air Pollution-Sulfur 85, Air Pollution-Sulfur 94, Air Pollution-Volatile Organic Compounds, Antarctic-Environmental Protocol, Antarctic-Marine Living Resources, Antarctic Seals, Antarctic Treaty, Biodiversity, Climate Change, Climate Change-Kyoto Protocol, Desertification, Endangered Species, Environmental Modification, Hazardous Wastes, Law of the Sea, Marine Dumping, Ozone Layer Protection, Ship Pollution, Tropical Timber 83, Tropical Timber 94, Wetlands, Whaling
signed, but not ratified: Air Pollution-Persistent Organic Pollutants
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Geography - Note: |
Strategic location dominating central Mediterranean as well as southern sea and air approaches to Western Europe.
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