US EditionMercosur Agreement: Eu Announces Compromise on Agricultural Imports
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If the trade agreement increases import volumes by more than eight percent per year, an investigation is to be initiated.
For the Mercosur agreement, the EU still lacks the necessary majority. In order to convince skeptical states, representatives of the EU agreed on a compromise on regulations for farmers. Brazil's President Lula increases the pressure.[more]]>
With a compromise, the EU wants to save the free trade agreement with the Mercosur countries. The agreement provides rules for the protection of European agriculture.
A few days away from a possible signature of the EU-Mercosur free trade agreement, the European Parliament has validated safeguard clauses to try to reassure farmers. Insufficient for Paris, "premature" by Rome, supported by Berlin and Madrid, the text crystallises tensions.
The president of the FPA (Parliamentary Agricultural Front), Deputy Pedro Lupion (Republicanos-PR), said this Wednesday (December 17, 2025) that the new rules established by the EU (European Union) for the agreement with Mercosur distort the logic of free trade. The European Parliament approved on Tuesday (December 16, 2025) a safeguard mechanism that allows the temporary suspension of tariff preferences on agricultural products from the countri…
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suedtirolnews.itThe EU has reached a compromise on controls of agricultural imports in the dispute over the Mercosur trade agreement. The agreement between negotiators from the European Parliament and EU member states stipulates that an investigation will be launched if import volumes increase by more than eight percent per year, as announced by the Danish EU Council Presidency on Wednesday evening.
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