107% US -Zölle auf italienischen Pasta

There is no peace for Italian food products in the United States, its most important export destination after the European market. As of 1 January 2026, the US administration is preparing to impose tariffs of as much as 107% on Italian pasta. To the 15% tariff already imposed by the White House, in fact, a further 91.74% is about to be added, motivated by the dumping accusations that the US administration is directing in particular at two Italian pasta producing companies, La Molisana and Garofalo, which have allegedly been the subject of an investigation by the US Department of Commerce.

Every year, at the request of some American pasta companies, the US Department of Commerce launches an investigation into imports of this product from Italy, but usually these kinds of reviews end with additional tariffs of 1 or 2 per cent at most. This time, however, weighted average dumping margins of 91.74% were found for the period between 1 July 2023 and 30 June 2024. In addition to La Molisana and Garofalo, the department’s report mentions other exporters including: Agritalia, Aldino, Antiche Tradizioni Di Gragnano, Barilla, Gruppo Milo, Pastificio Artigiano Cav. Giuseppe Cocco, Pastificio Chiavenna, Pastificio Liguori, Pastificio Della Forma, Pastificio Sgambaro, Pastificio Tamma and Rummo. The new tariffs will apply to all of these; for those already producing in the US – such as Barilla – the impact of the tariff will be less.

The Farnesina has made it known that it has been following the case since early September, when the US Department of Commerce published the preliminary outcome of its investigation. The Minister of Agriculture, Francesco Lollobrigida, has also already taken up the dossier: ‚Together with the Italian ambassador to the United States, Marco Peronaci, we are closely following the alleged anti-dumping action, which would trigger a hyper-protectionist mechanism towards our pasta producers of which we see neither the need nor any justification‘.

Under the Trump administration the „investigation“ are so perfect, i mean, wow, they never lied or bent the facts, all is crystal clear. Surely this isnt a sketchy gimmick to try and force the producer to go to USA and/or enforce a pathetic protectionism

Italians, you can send your pasta to Brazil. We will be glad of it.

Didn’t we have a grotesque trade deal to prevent them from doing further tariffs?

Should been 104%. Perfect for the orange guy

This is stark reminder for EU that only way to manage random US policies is to diversify trade routes & increase independence in digital, Defence and payment systems.

Everything else is just for headlines.

This is anti-Italian discrimination!

I’m sorry for the Americans that will now be forced to eat Barilla pasta

Italian government still like the Orange man, they got what they wanted.
Antoher victory for Meloni /s

Giorgia Meloni being a bootlicker didn’t work well lol

Next 107% on maple syrup, gotta protect the manufacturers

how about we slap 1000% tariff’s on every product coming from USA, every time angry carrot slams another tariff on things that come from Europe? 😉

Except the EU-US trade deal says that any tariffs can’t be over 15%, not now or in the future. Trump must have dementia to forget it so quickly.

Italy has a large established export market that includes pasta as a big component. This makes import of pasta cheap and efficient.

But honestly, the US has a massive wheat production so, why wouldn’t they look to expand domestic production of pasta – via stimulating competition through tariffs – to provide domestic pasta. Its a product that is eaten weekly by most families in the US.