Brazil has known as the European Fee’s landmark legislation to stop deforestation “unilateral and punitive”, including stress on Brussels to revise or delay the laws.
Exports of wooden, soy and occasional are amongst merchandise affected by the brand new guidelines that account for nearly a 3rd of Brazil’s exports to the EU.
The legislation decrees that any commodities from these sectors in addition to cocoa and rubber that come from deforested land will probably be banned from the bloc.
In a letter, Brazil’s ministers for international affairs and agriculture requested that the EU delay the legislation’s implementation of the legislation, as a result of come into power on December 30, and “urgently reassess its method”.
Comparable requests have been made by a number of EU commerce companions, together with the US.
