Learn Italian: Queste merci vengono prodotte dall'industria italiana. - These goods are produced by the Italian industry.

In Italian, the passive voice can be formed using either essere (to be) or venire (to come). Using venire emphasizes the action itself—the ongoing process of producing—rather than a finished state. This "dynamic passive" is very common in formal or descriptive contexts. Keep in mind that venire can only be used to form the passive in simple tenses (like the present or imperfect), not in compound tenses like the passato prossimo.

Why does the past participle prodotte end in -e?

In any passive voice sentence, the past participle acts like an adjective and must agree in gender and number with the subject receiving the action. The subject here is queste merci (these goods), which is feminine plural, so the standard past participle prodotto changes to prodotte.

Is merci a masculine plural noun because it ends in -i?

No, merci is feminine plural. Its singular form is la merce (the merchandise/good). Remember that Italian nouns ending in -e in the singular can be either masculine or feminine, but they almost always change to -i in the plural.

Why do we use dall' instead of just da for "by"?