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EU farmers fear new poultry market access
I BY JAKE DAVIES
t took more than two decades of negotiations, but a trade agreement between the Mercosur bloc of South Ameri- can countries and the European Union has been agreed. It marks the end of a lengthy negotiation, and in some
ways the beginning of another, as the deal will still have to be signed off by EU member states, as well as the Mercosur countries, which comprise Argentina, Brazil, Paraguay and Uruguay. Venezuela was suspended in 2016 for failing to meet the bloc’s basic standards. The deal aims to remove trade tariffs, making products cheaper for the 800 million consumers that the agreement will cover. It is the largest in the world by population.
‘One of the most important’ EU Commission chief Jean-Claude Juncker said it showed Eu- rope “stood for rules-based trade”. And Brazil’s president Jair
In late June the European Commission and the Mercosur group of countries signed a provisional trade agreement that, if it is ratified, would be the largest Europe has ever signed and one of the largest in the world. But farmers have expressed concern about granting South American agricultural produce market access.
Bolsonaro described the deal as “one of the most important” of all time. But many in the agricultural and environmental lobby are not happy. The agreement proposes to increase ac- cess for beef and poultry meat products in particular, and Greenpeace for example says that could be a bad deal for the environment. The organisation’s trade expert Naomi Ages said: “Trading more cars for cows is never acceptable when it leads to the destruction of the Amazon, attacks on
Frozen chicken products from Brazil end up in European supermarket freezers a lot easier when the Mercosur agreements are ratified in the EU parliament.
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