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The EU wants to block the import of certain foods made by different standards to protect its farmers in the echo of US President Donald Trump’s trade policy.
The European Commission will agree next week to explore the larger import restrictions on three officials, which would increase tensions with trade partners. Early goals could include crops now such as soy -grown soybeans using EU farmer’s pesticides are not allowed to use.
“We have very clear signals from parliament, very clear signals also from Member States and from our farmers: whatever is forbidden in the EU, this should be banned in the EU, even if it is a imported product,” the Health Center Olivér Várhelyi said in an interview last month.
Trump attacked countries on Thursday blocked our productsincluding the EU, which he said had banned shells of 48 US 50 countries. He threatened tariffs to those who do not change their policy.
The Commission has long opposed calls from France and other Member States to reciprocal treatment, claiming that it could be violates the rules of wto -a. The body only enables restrictions on scientific bases that do not discriminate imports.
The EU prohibits many pesticides because they damage plants or animals – even when his health agency has ruled that some are safe to swallow at low levels.
The EU plan is included in the vision of the agricultural road folder created by the Commissioner of the Agricultural Economies of Christophe Hansen. The official with knowledge of the documents plans said that he refers to the need to adhere to international rules.
“We are only talking about the funniest pesticides and there will be an assessment of impact to protect competitiveness before any decision,” said one official, adding that “we need coffee and mango and avocado.”
Várhelyi said that pesticides using carcinogenic, mutagene or endocrine disorders should not be released into a bloc on imported food.
“If science says she’s not sure, then we shouldn’t have it.”
“If we want to be scientifically based, then science is universal. Therefore, we must be sure that everything that is imported is in accordance with that.”
One such substance is paracat, herbicide prohibited in the EU, but in the US it is used on crops, including soy.
Pesticide Action Network Europe, a campaign group, found pesticides like Fungicide Propiconazole and Neurotoxic insecticides killing bees In many imports, according to a report published earlier this month.
“These substances often occur in the” Pesticide cocktail “, and in some cases their level exceeds the established limits of the remains for individual pesticides,” the group states. “The greater permissible restraints are often held to adapt to international trade partners, threatening the health of European citizens.”
Tea and coffee were the most common products with forbidden pesticide remains, with 38 percent of tea samples and 23 percent of coffee. Nearly a quarter of the samples from India, and 17 percent from China, both large tea growers, contained banned pesticide remains.
The Commission will also include in future trade agreements higher standards of animal welfare. The EU has rules on the amount of room for chickens and calves, purity of accommodation and other things that increase the costs for farmers.
One of the officials said he would increase public support for trade agreements, after the national parliaments refused to ratify some recent agreements for their observed influence on farmers and the environment.
