According to its stone sector association, Assimagra, in the first seven months of 2025 Portugal’s exports of natural stones – both raw materials and finished products – amounted to 286 million euros, remaining very close (-1.1%) to the same period in 2024. In the first part of the year the volumes exported held fairly steady (-1.4%) at 1,074,220 tons, with an average price for stone materials sold on international markets just above €266 per ton (+0.3%).
We remind readers that last year Portugal’s exports of marbles, granites and other natural stones had dropped both in value (-5.4%, for 470 million) and in volume (-9.7%, at 1,760,000 tons) compared to the record levels of 2023.
The top destination market for Portugal’s exports of natural stone – both raw and finished – from January to July 2025 was France, with 65.5 million in imports (up 2.1% from the same period in 2024), followed by China (38.5 million, -6.7%), Spain (37.4 million, +9.1%), the United States (24.2 million, +48.2%), the United Kingdom (15 million, -0.3%) and Germany (12.8 million, +5%). Also in the first seven months of the year Portugal imported from Italy machinery and equipment for extracting and processing natural stone worth more than 20 million euros, with an increase on an annual basis of 54.1% that took it to ninth place among top markets for Italy’s techno-stone exports (data from the CONFINDUSTRIA MARMOMACCHINE Studies Center).
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