(Washington, D.C., Might 30, 2025) – U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Brooke L. Rollins will go to Rome, Italy, on June 2-3. Throughout her go to, Secretary Rollins will reinforce the Administration’s expectations for improved agricultural market entry to Italy and the European Union and can encourage the United Nations organizations in Rome to prioritize American pursuits, scale back prices, and give attention to their core mandates.
“The US’ relationships with Italian patrons and customers foster tens of billions in bilateral commerce and funding. Nonetheless, U.S. agricultural stakeholders have been unfairly left behind for much too lengthy by the European Union and Italy’s excessive tariffs on U.S. agricultural merchandise and quite a few non-tariff obstacles,” stated Secretary Brooke Rollins. “In coordination with Ambassador Tilman Fertitta, we at USDA will proceed working to stage the taking part in discipline and improve market alternatives with the EU and Italy for hard-working U.S. farmers, ranchers, foresters, and meals processors.”
Secretary Rollins will meet with senior Italian authorities and Worldwide Group officers, together with the Italian Minister of Agriculture, Meals Sovereignty, and Forests Francesco Lollobrigida, Deputy Chief of Mission and Cost d’Affaires for the U.S. Embassy Marta Youth, Cost d’Affaires for the U.S. Mission to the UN Companies in Rome Rodney Hunter, UN Meals and Agriculture Group Director Common Qu Dongyu, and UN World Meals Programme Govt Director Cindy McCain.
Secretary Rollins has made it a high precedence to advocate on behalf of American agriculture on the world stage. This implies rising entry for American merchandise in current markets, opening new markets with robust demand for our merchandise, and ensuring buying and selling companions are treating American farmers, ranchers, and producers pretty. This comes after 4 years of inaction by the Biden Administration, which induced America’s agricultural commerce stability to go from a surplus below President Trump’s first time period, to a major deficit below President Biden.
This commerce mission follows Secretary Rollins’s journey to the U.Ok. in Might, and precedes future commerce journey to India, Vietnam, Japan, Peru, and Brazil over the subsequent 4 months. Different USDA Commerce Missions this yr embrace Peru, the Dominican Republic, Taiwan, Côte d’Ivoire, and Mexico.
United Kingdom: The U.Ok. is the USA’s fourteenth largest agricultural export market. U.S. producers face disproportionately excessive tariffs, small tariff-rate quota volumes, and unjustified non-tariff obstacles when exporting to the U.Ok.
India: The US is India’s sixth largest provider of agricultural merchandise. The U.S. has a $1.3 billion agricultural commerce deficit with India.
Brazil: The US has a $7 billion agricultural commerce deficit with Brazil.
Japan: Japan is a high 5 market for a lot of key U.S. commodities, together with corn, beef, pork, wheat, rice, and soybeans.
Vietnam: Vietnam is the USA’s tenth largest agricultural export market. The U.S. has no commerce settlement with Vietnam whereas main opponents like China do.
Peru: Peru is the USA’s third largest South American marketplace for agricultural exports, and the U.S. stays Peru’s second largest agricultural provider. Key prospects for U.S. agricultural exports to Peru embrace ethanol, dairy merchandise, meat, tree nuts, and pulses.
