Italian pasta exports to US face new tariffs of 107 per cent from January.
Italian pasta exporters are getting ready to tug their merchandise from supermarkets within the United States earlier than an enormous 107 per cent tariff takes impact within the new 12 months, in keeping with The Wall Street Journal.
In an article titled Italian Pasta Is Poised to Disappear From American Grocery Shelves, the American newspaper reported on Monday that main Italian pasta exporters consider that the tariffs will make it too costly to do enterprise within the US.
Washington plans to impose a further “anti-dumping” obligation of 91.74 per cent on 13 of the biggest Italian pasta exporters, on high of the prevailing 15 per cent common tariff on European agri-food imports, with impact from January 2026.
“No one has the revenue margins to maintain these tariffs,” Giuseppe Ferro, the chief government of La Molisana, one of many Italian pasta firms affected, instructed the WSJ, including: “It could be an actual disgrace to have the market snatched from us for no actual motive.”
Last month Ferro instructed reporters that the pasta firm was able to open a manufacturing unit within the US as it might be “unimaginable for us to do enterprise with tariffs at 107 per cent”.
Investigation
The anti-dumping duties stem from an investigation by the US division of commerce which discovered that La Molisana and Garofalo have been promoting pasta at unfairly low costs between July 2023 and June 2024.
However the Italian firms deny the accusations and have protested the US authorities’s preliminary findings. Some producers suspect that the choice is greater than only a value situation.
“This is not about dumping: it is an excuse to dam imports,” Cosimo Rummo, CEO of Pasta Rummo, one other Iatlian pasta producer set to be hit by the tariffs, instructed the WSJ.
Last month, Italian agriculture minister Francesco Lollobrigida hit out on the proposed new tariff which he claimed “would set off a hyper-protectionist mechanism towards our pasta producers, for which we see neither the necessity nor any justification”.
The US is certainly one of Italy’s high export markets for pasta, with almost €671 million in exports in 2024, in keeping with agricultural group Coldiretti, which claimed the additional tariffs would deal a “deadly blow” to the Italian pasta sector.
Effects for American customers
The 107 per cent tariff “would double the price of a plate of pasta for American households, Coldiretti mentioned, and would pave the best way for “Italian-sounding” pasta merchandise within the US.
In a current article titled Why the Price of Italian Pasta May Soon Double for Americans, Time journal reported that pasta imported from Italy final 12 months represented round 12 per cent of the US pasta market.
The Time article additionally famous that the Italian-based Barilla – the largest pasta model within the US – produces most of its pasta offered within the US within the US, which might not be topic to the duties.
The new tariff charge is “preliminary,” an official from the US division of commerce instructed the Washington Post not too long ago, and is ready to be reviewed earlier than being applied in January.
