EU and Mercosur exchanged market access offers; beef and ethanol excluded as 'sensitive' products

Thursday, May 12th 2016 - 04:42 UTC

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Trade Commissioner Cecilia Malmström and the Foreign Affairs Minister of Uruguay Rodolfo Nin Novoa, on Wednesday exchanged EU and Mercosur offers on access to their respective markets of goods, services and establishment and government procurement. However this first exchange excluded 'sensitive' items such as beef and ethanol, according to EU sources. The details of the documents exchanged were not made public. Read full article

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ChrisR
All those years and still no cigar!

Beef exports are vital to Uruguay, ethanol is to Brazil.

Waste of a handshake!
May 12th, 2016 - 11:01 am - Link - Report abuse 0
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Pete Bog
I thought the main products that TMBOA was complaining about the EU rejecting WERE the main ones-as you say Chris-Biofuel and Beef.

But maybe a breakthrough? Have the pesticide favoured lemons got through?
May 12th, 2016 - 12:40 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
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