The U.S. Commerce Department has launched an antidumping review targeting Italian pasta, claiming it’s sold below market prices. This could lead to a 92% duty on top of an existing 15% tariff from the Trump administration.

The potential 107% levy has alarmed Italy, as 13 producers could face significant losses of their second-largest export market.

Producers say sales would shrivel if prices to American consumers more than double. And while the measure would hardly prompt pasta shortages, it still has perplexed importers like Sal Auriemma, whose shop in Philadelphia’s Italian market, Claudio Specialty Food, has been operating for over 60 years.

“Pasta is a pretty small sector to pick on. I mean, there’s a lot bigger things to pick on," said Auriemma, pointing to luxury items as an alter

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