Aficionados fret as Trump moves to make pasta great again

Steel: 50%. Copper: 50%. Cars: up to 25%. But an even bigger Trump-era levy looms: 107% on Italian pasta.Mamma mia.

- Associated Press

US is the largest market for Italy's $4.65 billion pasta exports.

(AP)

It started with the US commerce department launching what it says was a routine antidumping review, based on allegations Italian pasta makers sold product into the US at belowmarket prices and undercut local competitors. That has led to a threat of 92% duties, which would come on top of the 15% tariff President Donald Trump's administration imposed on European exports generally.

The news sent shockwaves through Italy, where 13 producers would be subject to the whopping one-two punch.