Italian Grana Padano consortium will send cheese to Biden

Gift is a provocation to Trump, who overtaxed the Italian product

The general director of the Grana Padano Consortium, Stefano Berri, informed that the entity will send a piece of Grana Padano, the most consumed traditional Italian cheese in the world for the president-elect of the United States, Joe Biden. 

Due to the special occasion, the piece will be painted with the Italian and US flags.   

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“The piece will be sent to the White House in the next few days, as soon as we obtain legal authorization. A small gesture of good luck that we had also reserved for his predecessor, Donald Trump, who unfortunately disappointed our expectations by adopting costly tariffs on our products to give an advantage to similar products in the USA”, said Berri referring to the policy of the current mandatory to surcharge items from abroad.   

The entity's leader also stated that he hopes that Grana Padano's piece “resumes the always excellent dialogue with a country, the USA, historically very friendly to Grana Padano and quality 'made in Italy'”.  

O Grana Padano is the most consumed Protected Designation of Origin (PDO) product in the world, with annual production of five million pieces, of which 40% are exported.

The United States is the one that imports the most Italian agri-food products outside the European Union countries, with business that reached 4,7 billion euros in 2019. However, the constant increase in import taxes imposed by the Republican government has shaken this relationship. in recent years. (Handle).