13.2% of Albania's exports in 2019 were leather footwear, 54.8% of which went to Italy, just across the Adriatic. Chromium ore was only 2.2% of exports (and 96.6% went to China).
Also, if you look closely at that video you can see that "Sam" is actually Ted Danson who is an actor and not a retired alcoholic baseball player who owns a bar.
https://oec.world/en/visualize/tree_map/hs92/export/alb/all/...