30% duties announced by US President Donald Trump on European products could cost US families and Italian agri -food over 2.3 billion euros. This is what emerges from an estimate Coldiretti, carried out on the basis of the impact for the national supply chains already experienced on the occasion of the additional rates imposed by the Tycoon in its first term, which had led to a drop in double -digit sales for the affected products. The possible disappearance of many Italian products from the shelves would represent an assist for the already flourishing tarot industry, estimated at a value of 40 billion.
To the immediate damage in terms of a probable drop in exports, the one caused by the failure to grow, with the Made in Italy food in the USA which this year aimed to overcome the finish line of 9 billion euros, after having reached the record value of 7.8 billion euros, thanks to an increase in sales of 17% compared to 2023, according to the Coldiretti analysis on Istat data, should be added. To weigh it is also the fact that the new additional rates would add to the existing ones, in particular penalizing some key chains, starting from those already subjected to duty. With the dice at 30%, the additional rates for some symbolic products of Made in Italy would reach 45% for cheeses, 35% for wines, 42% for transformed tomato, 36% for stuffed pasta and 42% for homogenized jams and jams, according to a Coldiretti projection.
“To impose duties at 30% on European agri -food products – and therefore Italian – would be a very hard blow to the real economy, to the agricultural companies that work every day to bring quality and identity to the world, but also to American consumers, who would be deprived of authentic products or forced to pay them much more as well as to feed the phenomenon of Italian Sounding – says the president of Coldiretti Ettore Prandini – unfortunately we can only consist, Where the duties were confirmed on August 1, the total failure of the policy exercised by the von der Leyen to the detriment of the production sectors and future generations. It appears deeply unjust and completely asymmetrical. Most strategic responsibility cannot be asked and then penalizing it economically on trade. We need a shutdown of lucidity by everyone ».