Almost ten years after rules on salmonella in poultry meat were amended in the European Union, Brazil is filing for consultations at the dispute settlement body of the World Trade Organization in Geneva over what it sees as discriminatory treatment of its processed poultry meat.
Mercosur
EU-Mercosur : Contours of a limited deal on public procurement
The fact that the EU had concluded its least ambitious agreement on public procurement in a free trade agreement in many years with the four member countries of the Mercosur was well known. The recent release of the fine print of the mutual market access offers in the trade pillar …
Mercosur: EU sets precedent with tariff preferences conditional on animal welfare standards
The EU and the parties to the EU Mercosur Association Agreement are making progress on the ‘legal scrubbing’ of the trade pillar of their prospective agreement. Whereas most parts of the agreement have been public since 2019, critical pieces of market access offers were not made public as their fine …
Finding a way through the Mercosur maze
This week a coalition of European business associations representing a wide variety of sectors got together to call for the swift ratification of the EU-Mercosur Association Agreement. “With the political agreement reached two years ago, now is the time to move forward and unlock the manifold mutual benefits that this …
Week in Brussels: Mercosur time horizon, Korea, India
A week with meaningful developments on transatlantic, digital and – not least – the EU-UK front. Here other updates… Dombrovskis eyes 2022 for ratification of EU Mercosur trade pact Speaking at an event hosted by the Portuguese presidency of the European Council in cooperation with BusinessEurope and its Brazilian counterpart …
EU-Mercosur: The elusive quest for a formula to make the deal ratifiable
The EU-Mercosur Association Agreement is being much talked about and commented on in Europe. But little is actually happening concretely on the path towards ratification of a controversial political and trade agreement that was inked in the summer 2019.
Week in Brussels: Irking like-minded partners on vaccines exports, EU Mercosur stasis, CETA
As everyone in Europe prepares for a second semi-locked down COVID-19 Easter, one must say it hasn’t been the most glorious of trade weeks for the European Union – except for a specific CETA performance.
A new anti-Mercosur agreement NGO coalition is born
Around 450 NGOs, labour unions, civil rights organisations on both sides of the Atlantic have launched a common campaign aiming to bring down the EU Mercosur Association Agreement which the Commission and South American governments are preparing to ratify, pending further negotiations of a protocol that would involve cooperation in …
France pours cold water on idea of swift EU Mercosur pact ratification
France is holding the key cards among European Union member states in having the long-awaited EU Mercosur trade pact ratified – perhaps one day – in Europe.
The EU’s 2021 trade plans – beyond the EU-UK and EU-US horror picture show
Africa, Latin America, India, procurement: what the EU is planning to do in its international trade diplomacy in this area.