WASHINGTON (USA) (ITALPRESS) – Institutions, parliamentarians and enterprises of Italy and the United States compared this morning at the Hamilton Hotel in Washington in the Executive Breakfast Meeting of AmCham Italy “The Transatlantic Partnership at a Turning Point – Priorities for the Next Chapter”. The meeting is part of the AmCham Italy mission in Washington for the 51st Gala of the National Italian American Foundation, which this year celebrates Lombardy as the Region of Honor.
After the opening of the works by Simone Crolla, CEO of AmCham Italy, and Fabrizio Grillo Aldrovandi, Corporate Director of the Bracco Group and President of Federated Innovation @MIND, the Italian Ambassador in the United States Marco Peronaci, the President of Regione Lombardia Attilio Fontana and the Vice President of the Chamber of Deputies Giorgio Mulè. In comparison, Carlo Fidanza, Senator Elena Murelli, MPs Alessandro Cattaneo and Christian Di Sanzo and Ambassador Philip T. Reeker, Senior Advisor of DGA-Albright Stonebridge Group took part. Also present is the President of SACE Guglielmo Picchi. The meeting was realized with the support of Bracco.
“The relationship with the United States is a national interest, not a part of it,” said Crolla, greeting majority parliamentarians and opposition sitting at the same table.
In the year of 250 years of the Declaration of Independence and 80 of the Italian Republic, he recalled the meaning of the title: “A turn is not a break: it is the point where you choose the direction.” With the Trump Administration, he added, “functions what is mutual, measurable and concrete”: the Tajani-Rubio memorandum on critical minerals, Italy’s accession to Pax Silica, the dialogue on nuclear and the Trusted Tech Accelerator Italia-USA, presented on October 16 at the Embassy of Italy.
“Ringrazio Simone Crolla and AmCham Italy for meeting in Washington, at the same table, institutions, Parliament and enterprises. It is the right way to read this phase: the relationship between Italy and the United States grows when political dialogue becomes concrete projects, from critical minerals to energy, from Pax Silica to trusted technologies. Italy has advanced capabilities to offer, and our companies show it every day on the two shores of the Atlantic. In turn, reliable partners are recognized, and AmCham has been one of the strongest bridges of this friendship for over a century,” said Ambassador Marco Peronaci.
The numbers. According to SACE the Italian export to the United States is worth approximately 70 billion euros in 2025 and has grown of 3.7% in the first eight months of 2026. According to Istat, in the first semester imports from the United States rose by 21.7% and the Italian surplus fell from 20.3 to 17,7 billion euros. “We rebalance buying more American, not selling less Italian,” said Crolla, recalling that in the United States 5,954 Italian companies employ more than 300 thousand people and in Italy 3.350 American companies generate 334 thousand jobs.
Strategic subjects. Crolla has indicated five plots of interaction: energy, with the American GNL climbed in the first half to 62% of Italian imports of liquefied gas and return to nuclear; technology and trusted supply chains; defense, with the first contract of Fincantieri with the US Navy in the LSM program; investments in America, from Pirelli in Georgia to 27 billion euros of commitments of SACE; the rules of commerce, where with the priority from European SACE.
In closing Crolla recalled the candidacy of Milan at the headquarters of a new United Nations pillar for the governance of artificial intelligence, promoted with Assolombarda and Confcommercio Milano Lodi Monza and Brianza: “We are building together the trusted chain of chips and minerals. Now it also needs a trusted meter to measure models.” And he concluded with Ennio, resumed by Cicero in De amicotia: “Amicus certus in uncertain king cernitur: the sure friend is recognized in uncertainty.”.
Affiliated to the Chamber of Commerce of the United States of America, a network of 117 American chambers of commerce in 103 countries with over 3 million affiliated companies, the American Chamber of Commerce in Italy was founded in 1915.
Institutional and business relations developed over 110 years of activity between Italy and the USA are a value made available to members as well as government contacts at local and federal level on both sides of the Atlantic. President of AmCham Italy is Stefano Lucchini; Managing Director is Simone Crolla.
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