President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva said Tuesday that he would speak in New York with European Commission President Ursula Van der Leyen to urge the European Union not to try to include the issue of implementing the European anti-deforestation law, which is scheduled to come into force in December, in the trade deal negotiated by the bloc with Mercosur.
“They spent 30 years saying that it was Brazil that did not want to make the agreement. We have decided, we have a proposal, we are not inventing another argument to say that they will make the agreement difficult,” Lula said during a meeting at the Palácio do Planalto to discuss the fight against fires in the country.
Last week, the Brazilian government sent a letter to the European Commission demanding that the anti-deforestation law not enter into force, arguing that the legislation violates international trade issues and infringes on the sovereignty of the countries concerned.
European legislation, approved in 2022, provides for a ban on the import of products from deforested areas starting in 2022, even in areas where deforestation is legal.
The text includes seven sectors, with the majority of Brazilian exports to Europeans: meat, coffee, cocoa, forest products (which include paper, cellulose and wood), soy and rubber. It also has palm oil, the only product that Brazil does not export, but it includes derivatives, such as leather, furniture and chocolate.
Source: Terra
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