People might see the price of a favorite food staple go up by over 100 percent.

And the reason is one oft-cited these days : taxes .

CBS News reports how the Trump administration is considering a new import tax of 107 percent on 13 of Italy’s largest pasta exporters. This is partially the result of a federal probe that found how some Italian pasta brands — such as La Molisana and Pastificio Lucio Garofalo — were selling their products below U.S. market prices.

This idea was brought forward via a proposal published by the U.S. Commerce Department in September. Should it come to fruition, a new 92 antidumping duty would be placed on these products on top of the existing 15 percent tariff on European Union imports.

“Gotta stock up on Garofalo before this hits,” wrote someone on

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