(2 Jun 2025)
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ASSOCIATED PRESS
Rome, Italy – 2 June 2025
1. U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Brooke Rollins and her Italian Agriculture Minister Francesco Lollobrigida entering press room
2. SOUNDBITE (English) Brooke Rollins, U.S. Secretary of Agriculture:
“We had the opportunity to discuss areas of interest for our agricultural community in the United States including our desire to level the playing field and increase market opportunities for our hard-working American farmers. Our relationships with Italian buyers and consumers fosters tens of billions of dollars in bilateral trade and investment. So American farmers and ranchers want to ensure that EU regulations do not get in the way of that mutually beneficial trade relationship between the United States and Italy."
3. Wide of conference
4. SOUNDBITE (Italian) Francesco Lollobrigida, Italian Agriculture Minister :
“On our olive oil, on our wine, on our cheese, on our balsamic vinegar. A quarter, about a third, stays in Italy. The rest is wealth that is created in the United States. This perspective can be useful in understanding which European products are also useful to the United States in creating jobs and wealth, which is a legitimate need of the U.S. government. And then also understand what are the opportunities to implement some export factors to Europe and to Italy. Because it is objective that there are some imbalances (in the trade balance between US and EU).”
5. Wide of conference
6. SOUNDBITE (English) Brooke Rollins, U.S. Secretary of Agriculture:
“So what this effort is, is to realign, but also to open the markets around the world to our American agriculture products and to all products that come from America and that we do well. So any predictions that this is going to significantly harm any of our industries in America have to date not proven to be true, but if in fact when, you know, six months when harvest comes in and it does prove that some of our industries have been compromised, at least in the short term, then President Trump will step in the gap just as he’s done before."
7. Wide of conference
8. SOUNDBITE (Italian) Francesco Lollobrigida, Italian Agriculture Minister :
“We are importers of some products that we cannot produce in Italy, such as soybeans, in sufficient quantities for our farms. So raising awareness among our entrepreneurs, including in the agricultural world, to import more from markets that are very important for their processing. This is something that I think is more than fair.”
9. Wide of conference
10. SOUNDBITE (English) Brooke Rollins, U.S. Secretary of Agriculture:
(Talking about Tuesday’s meetings with FAO and WFP UN agencies)
"The days of us in America just sort of sending billions upon billions upon billions upon billions of dollars out across the world without much accountability and without understanding how it specifically served the greater interest of America, but also of world stability, those days are over. We’re now looking at every single program. We want to fully understand whether it is meeting its metrics, whether there are NGOs in America, we call those non-governmental organizations, that often serve as the middleman, that often have 50, 60, 70 percent overhead, where the food that we’re trying to move out doesn’t actually get to where it is supposed to be."
11. Wide of conference
12. SOUNDBITE (English) Brooke Rollins, U.S. Secretary of Agriculture:
13. Various of Rollins and Lollobrigida shaking hands
14. Italian, EU and US flags on the facade of the ministry of agriculture
15. Exteriors of ministry
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