What is the price of lobster per kilogram/pound in Italy today?
The retail price range for Italy lobster is between US$ 8.27 and US$ 33.58 per kilogram or between US$ 3.75 and US$ 15.23 per pound(lb). Click here to see today's exact prices of lobster in Italy
The retail price range in Euro for lobster is between EUR 7.64 and EUR 31.02 per kilogram or between EUR 3.47 and EUR 14.07 per pound(lb) in Rome and Milan.
Wholesale prices
In 2025, the approximate wholesale price range for Italy lobster is between US$ 5.79 and US$ 23.51 per kilogram or between US$ 2.63 and US$ 10.66 per pound(lb).
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Italy lobster - Production, Exports, Imports, Seasons and HS Codes
The volume of lobster sold by Italy in 2020 was 209 tons. In 2019 Italy sold 262 tonnes of lobster. In 2019 alone, the interest in Italy lobster (seafood category) has gone down, flactuating by -23.167 percent compared to the year 2018. Between 2017 and 2019, lobster's exports decreased by -29.38% earning the exporter US$4.50m for the year 2019. Italy's lobster exports are categorised as:
- Rock lobster and other sea crawfish "Palinurus spp., Panulirus spp. and Jasus spp.", whether in shell or not, live, fresh or chilled (HS code 030631)
- Rock lobster and other sea crawfish "Palinurus spp., Panulirus spp. and Jasus spp.", whether in shell or not, dried, salted, smoked or in brine, incl. in shell, cooked by steaming or by boiling in water (HS code 030691)
- Lobsters "Homarus spp.", whether in shell or not, live, fresh or chilled (HS code 030632)
- Frozen Norway lobsters "Nephrops norvegicus", even smoked, whether in shell or not, incl. lobsters in shell, cooked by steaming or by boiling in water (HS code 030615)
- Rock lobster and other sea crawfish "Palinurus spp., Panulirus spp. and Jasus spp.", even smoked, whether in shell or not, live, fresh, chilled, dried, salted or in brine, incl. in shell, cooked by steaming or by boiling in water (HS code 030621)
- Lobster, prepared or preserved (excluding smoked) (HS code 160530)
- Norway lobsters "Nephrops norvegicus", whether in shell or not, live, fresh or chilled (HS code 030634)
- Norway lobsters "Nephrops norvegicus", even smoked, whether in shell or not, live, fresh, chilled, dried, salted or in brine, incl. lobsters in shell, cooked by steaming or by boiling in water (HS code 030625)
- Lobsters "Homarus spp.", even smoked, whether in shell or not, live, fresh, chilled, dried, salted or in brine, incl. lobsters in shell, cooked by steaming or by boiling in water (HS code 030622)
- Frozen rock lobster and other sea crawfish "Palinurus spp.", "Panulirus spp." and "Jasus spp.", even smoked, whether in shell or not, incl. rock lobster and other sea crawfish in shell, cooked by steaming or by boiling in water (HS code 030611)
- Frozen lobsters "Homarus spp.", even smoked, whether in shell or not, incl. lobsters in shell, cooked by steaming or by boiling in water (HS code 030612)
- Lobsters "Homarus spp.", whether in shell or not, dried, salted, smoked or in brine, incl. lobsters in shell, cooked by steaming or by boiling in water (HS code 030692)
- Lobster (HS code 0306Xd)
- Norway lobsters "Nephrops norvegicus", whether in shell or not, dried, salted, smoked or in brine, incl. lobsters in shell, cooked by steaming or by boiling in water (HS code 030694)
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Italy lobster export values
In 2019, Italy supplied lobster valued at 4.50m USD, a drop of -26.81% from 2018's total lobster export of 6.148m USD. The yearly change in value of Italy lobster between 2017 to 2018 was -8.457 percent.
The annual/yearly change in the volume of Italy's lobster exports between 2017 and 2019 was -29.38 percent when compared to a variation of -23.167% in the growth rate between 2018 and 2019.
Italy's stake of the world's total lobster's exports in 2019 was 35.2 percent. The country holds number 1 in world exports of lobster.
Export markets for Italy lobster ( in '000$ )
Import/Export Trends
Italy is a net exporter of lobster. The annual growth of Italy lobster in value between 2015 to 2019 was 3%, per annum, while annual growth in quantity for the same period was 1%, per annum.
Italy imported 14,929 tonnes of lobster in 2019.