ISDS Case Map
Mercosur
This study assesses the impact of the EFTA-Mercosur free trade agreement on access to medicines, indigenous rights and women rights.
The controversial Mercosur trade deal is incompatible with the EU’s commitment to carbon neutrality and “may undermine global efforts to avert runaway climate change”.
Belgium’s region of Wallonia is trying to block the EU-Mercosur free-trade agreement, just like it previously attempted with CETA, the EU-Canada free trade agreement.
The Mercosur agreement damages the environment, climate and small farmers.
Austria has thrown the European Union’s decades-long Mercosur trade talks into disarray after the country’s new government will not support the pact in its current form.
The high emission intensity of beef production in the Mercosur countries can reach levels that are more than double the emission intensity of Irish beef.
It is time that 21st century trade policy reflects 21st century emergencies and answers to the climate crisis.
The reality is that the EU-Mercosur FTA will cause a serious increase in global greenhouse gas emissions.
The failure to take recent data or events into account risks creating incorrect and biased results.
Farmers' group outlined its concerns including the Mercosur trade deal, which it says “threatens the supply of safe, high-quality and certified food from the region with low-priced imports."
