“A stroke as a technical knockout,” says Confcooperative. “A mortal blow” for Coldiretti. A sting on Made in Italy from “35 billion euros per year”, calculates the CGIA. The letter of Donald Trump to Europe announces 30% duties puts companies in a strong alarm. The president of Confindustria, Emanuele Orsini, however he warns: «Now it is necessary to keep everyone calm and have the nerves. We cannot compromise our financial markets ». And it notes: “It is obvious that the letter arrived from the United States is an unpleasant desire to treat”. Confindustria Veneto invokes “concrete measures to support the competitiveness of our companies: investments and access to credit, bureaucratic and fiscal lightening in addition to the definition of energy policy”. Even the president of the Turin industrialists, Marco Gay, asks for “nerves and units”, be careful “we do not want to compromise consolidated markets and relationships”.
The president of Confartigianato, Marco Granelli, also asks “the government concrete measures to support the international competitiveness of our companies: tools for the diversification of markets, incentives for innovation and infrastructure and energy investments that strengthen the resilience of our production system”, now that the war of duties can “settles a serious blow to Italian export in the USA” 66.6 billion, “of these as many as 17.87 billions of euros come from small businesses ». He asks: “Europe all and our government – Feltrin still says – must be in mind that not to defend our companies now could have the industrial desertification of the old continent as a consequence”. From Confcommercio an appeal to “negotiate, negotiate, negotiate”.
For Maurizio Gardini, the president of Confcooperative, “Trump proves to be a spice and discord disseminator”, but Europe shows “its usual ineffectiveness”. Agro -food is in a strong alarm. For the Grana Padano Protection Consortium, which provides prices in the United States increasing for over 50 euros per kilo, that of Trump is “a true declaration of economic war”. Coldiretti highlights that the fact that the new additional rates would add to the existing ones would be weighed, in particular, penalizing some supply chains: with new duties at 30% the additional rates would reach 45% for cheeses, 35% for wines, at 42% for the transformed tomato, 36% for stuffed pasta and 42% for jams and jams and jams homogenized. For Confagricoltura, the duties at 30% “go beyond any more dark forecast and are absolutely unacceptable”, a “condemnation” not only for the sector but “for the economy of entire countries”.