‘A fatal blow’: Italian producers fear effects of Trump’s ‘war against pasta’ - short news
US president’s threat to impose 92% tariffs targeting major manufacturers put family-run firms in the firing line as well
“It’s a real pity,” laments Antonio Rummo of Donald Trump’s latest target in his ever-evolving tariff war: Italian pasta. Rummo is the sixth-generation grandson of the founder of Pasta Rummo, who opened a wheat mill in Benevento in southern Italy in 1846, using the family’s three horses to lug grain from the surrounding Campania region and Puglia to..
source: The Guardian - 09.10.2025