Ministero delle Imprese e del Made in Italy

The Ministry of Business and Made in Italy deals with industrial policy, trade and communications.

The Bassanini reform of 1999 determined the establishment of the Ministry of Productive Activities, merging the Ministry of Foreign Trade and the Ministry of Communications with Industry, which however was kept autonomous by the Berlusconi II government in 2001.

In 2006, with the Prodi II government, the competences on cohesion policies were added, merging the Department for Development and Economic Cohesion from the Ministry of Economy and Finance, and the Ministry of International Trade was re-established, with the consequent change of name to Ministry of Economic Development. Only in 2008 was it decided to restore the Bassanini reform by merging the functions of the Ministry of Communications and the Ministry of International Trade into the Ministry of Economic Development, which ceased to exist starting from the Berlusconi IV government.

In 2014, the Department for Development and Economic Cohesion was split off to create the new Agency for Territorial Cohesion. In 2019, with the Conte II government, the responsibilities for trade policy and the internationalization of the production system were transferred to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. In 2021, with the Draghi government, the responsibilities for energy (excluding those relating to competition, market and security of supplies) were transferred to the new Ministry for Ecological Transition.

On 12 November 2022, with the Meloni Government, it took on the name of Ministry of Business and Made in Italy.