EU TEXTILE INDUSTRY SAYS CUTTING BRAZILIAN IMPORT TARIFFS KEY TO BOOSTING TRADE

REDUCING Brazil’s excessive duty tariffs through renewed European Union (EU)-Brazil trade talks is essential to increase textile exports to the Latin American country, EURATEX (the European Apparel and Textile Federation) director general Francesco Marchi has told WTiN.com. Decisions on tariffs are central to negotiations between the EU and Mercosur – the trading block of Argentina, Paraguay and Uruguay and Brazil (Venezuela was suspended from the group in December 2016). The 27th negotiating round ended on March 24 in Buenos Aires, Argentina, with the next ...


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