MEAT TRADES COULD PROSPER IF EU AND MERCOSUR STRIKE COMMERCIAL AGREEMENT
May 1st, 2010
BY KEITH NUTHALL
EUROPEAN meat importers will be looking to boost supplies from the Mercosur countries of South America, if they strike a planned trade deal with the European Union (EU). A resumption of negotiations on slashing tariffs for goods traded between the EU's 27 member countries and the four-country Mercosur block, (Argentina, Brazil, Uruguay and Paraguay), has been announced by the European Commission, the EU's executive. An earlier attempt to forge such a deal was suspended in 2004, after nine years of negotiations failed to secure agreement.
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