ISDS Case Map
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The Belgian Government will not support the EU-Mercosur trade agreement without strict "mirror clauses", outgoing Agriculture Minister David Clarinval announced.
The deal is likely to fail to safeguard consumer interests and align with the EU’s sustainability goals.
British lawmakers said the benefits of the UK’s accession to a major trans-Pacific trading bloc are unclear
Sticking points include how much access UK producers should have to the Canadian cheese market and harmonisation of food standards.
Concerns grow that post-Brexit trade deals could lead to further decline in quality as battery farm eggs are reintroduced.
The Canadian meat industry has launched a campaign demanding its government block the UK’s accession to a new trans-Pacific trade deal unless it accepts imports of Canadian hormone-fed beef.
House of Commons panel wants pesticide residue norms undiluted, cut in dairy, alcohol tariffs.
A Greenpeace Germany study of Brazilian limes sold in the EU has found residues of several pesticides, some of them banned for use in Europe.
Claims that beef imported from Mexico has a lower carbon footprint than UK-reared beef are ‘B-word’, an environment minister has said.
There can be no EU-Mercosur deal without mirror clauses that would force producers from both sides of the world to respect the same environmental and health standards, French President Emmanuel Macron told farmers in Paris this weekend.
