Steel and copper 50 per cent, cars up to 25 per cent, but an even bigger Trump-era levy looms - 107 per cent on Italian pasta.

Mamma mia.

It started with the US Commerce Department launching what it says was a routine anti-dumping review, based on allegations Italian pasta makers sold product into the US at below-market prices and undercut local competitors.

That has led to a threat of 92 per cent duties, which would come on top of the 15 per cent 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 double whammy. They say sales in their second-biggest export market would shrivel if prices to American consumers more than doubled.

While the measure would hardly prompt pas

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