Uruguay Captures 63% of Mercosur's Annual Rice Quota to the European Union
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Uruguay captures 63% of Mercosur's annual rice quota to the European Union
Uruguay this week filled 63% of the annual zero-tariff rice quota granted by the European Union to Mercosur, in the first significant trade milestone since the provisional entry into force, on 1 May, of the association agreement between the two blocs. The total quota of 6,667 tons for the current year was covered within a few weeks of activity, according to Acting Foreign Minister Valeria Csukasi, in what amounts to one of the first operational t
The European Union and Mercosur — made up of Argentina, Brazil, Paraguay and Uruguay — opened their doors to free trade between blocs on May 1. The Community authorities, under pressure from farmers’ protests, imposed restrictions on the entry of certain foods, for which small tariff-free quotas will be progressively increased each year. Mercosur authorities have failed to agree on the internal distribution of these quotas — which account for le…
For more than two decades, the Argentine egg industry worked almost quietly to enter the European market with zero tariffs. There were trips to Brussels, meetings with ambassadors, technical negotiations, extreme health demands and years of bureaucracy around the agreement between Mercosur and the European Union. The result just began to be seen now, when Argentina completed the first shipment of industrialised egg to the European bloc without p…
The distribution of 21 quotas with the EU has already escalated to the political level. “It is no longer a question of finding a formula. It is a political discussion,” said Vice-Chancellor Valeria Csukasi in an interview with Diario La R. The confirmation that Uruguay managed to place 63% of the first tariff-free rice quota allowed by the agreement between Mercosur and the European Union was held on Thursday by the government as a concrete sign…
At the time of the entry into force of the trade agreement between Mercosur and the European Union, the Government sent an operational clarification to business chambers and customs dispatchers to order the implementation of the new regime and to respond to a series of doubts that persisted in the private sector about how to declare imports and exports under the new preferential scheme.The communication was forwarded by the Customs Technical Dir…
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