Delicious dates and honey produced by bees imported from Italy and Egypt are available year-round.

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Ms. Jin also hand-selected white marble, imported from Italy, for some of the floors and columns on the first floor.

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True, she knits, and has a subdued brown wool imported specially from Italy.

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Around 15% of the oil imported by Spain, Greece and Italy comes from Iran.

BBC: Davos 2012: The unfinished and the unmentionable

Already Italy is one of Europe's biggest buyers of electricity from abroad, with over 15% of its electricity imported, but foreign investment in Italy is currently small, because local governments have made it tough for foreigners to set up shop.

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