The EU-Mercosur free trade agreement, set to be signed on Saturday, reignites debate over pesticides banned for European farmers but widely used in Latin America – a major export market for EU agrochemical companies.
AFP compared Brussels rules with those in Brazil to illustrate the differences in pesticide standards between the two blocs, which traded more than 15-billion-euros worth of agricultural goods in 2024.
Brazil accounts for 80 percent of the EU's trade with Mercosur countries (Brazil, Argentina, Paraguay, Uruguay).
As of late November, it had authorised the use of 330 active substances.
Sixty percent of them had not been appr
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