Italian Pasta Exports To Us Face Crunch From Anti-dumping Tariff Measures

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Italy’s largest agriculture organisation said further tariffs connected pasta exports to nan US would beryllium a “mortal blow” should an anti-dumping punishment spell ahead.

According to Coldiretti, Italy exported pasta to nan US past twelvemonth weighted astatine €671m ($782.3m), shipments that would beryllium threatened by a 91.7% work to beryllium imposed successful January connected apical of nan 15% presently applied to EU goods.

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The US Department of Commerce, via its International Trade Commission, completed a reappraisal successful September and singled retired Italian manufacturers Molisana and Pastificio Lucio Garofalo for trading pasta connected nan US marketplace “at little than normal value” from July 2023 to June 2024.

After a number of delays, nan Department of Commerce issued its preliminary findings successful September up of nan planned preamble of nan further tariffs and has invited willing parties to comment.

While Coldiretti said successful a connection connected Saturday (4 October) that duties of 107% would “have devastating consequences for Made successful Italy”, nan authorities said it has intervened arsenic an willing party.

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs followed up pinch a connection nan aforesaid day, saying it is “working intimately pinch nan affected companies and successful consultation pinch nan European Commission to guarantee that nan US Department of Foreign Affairs reviews nan provisional duties imposed connected our companies”.

It added: “The Ministry of Foreign Affairs has formally intervened successful nan proceedings arsenic an ‘interested party’ done its embassy successful Washington to assistance nan companies successful asserting their rights.”

Just Food has approached Molisana and Pastificio Lucio Garofalo for remark coming (6 October).

Coldiretti warned nan other tariffs would push up prices for US consumers of imported Italian pasta and promote Made successful Italy imitations. Local companies would beryllium “severely” deed arsenic a consequence, nan waste and acquisition assemblage said.

Its president, Ettore Prandini, said successful nan statement: “We must take sides and beforehand nan pasta proviso chain, some successful nan US and successful Italy, to debar trading disconnected 1 of our flagship products of excellence.

“Just arsenic we request a adjacent value for Italian wheat, we judge it is basal to guarantee a adjacent worth for pasta. The American accusations of dumping are unacceptable and instrumental to Trump’s scheme to move accumulation to nan US.”

Coldiretti added export revenues connected pasta from tariffs of that size “would beryllium virtually wiped out, erasing years of maturation and finance on nan full proviso chain”.

It called connected Italy’s authorities and nan EU to “act decisively to protect a merchandise that is not conscionable a food, but a existent awesome of nan Mediterranean fare and Italy’s agri-food identity”.

Meanwhile, nan Ministry of Foreign Affairs said it “hopes that nan American broadside will recognise nan integrity and afloat willingness of our producers to cooperate successful nan ongoing investigation”.