Aprosoja Brasil participated last week in the AgroBrazil Alliance, a meeting promoted by the Ministry of Agriculture, Livestock and Supply (MPLS) to discuss the negotiations of three major trade agreements between Brazil and Mercosur with Canada, South and European Union.
Representatives of the area of market access and competitiveness of the MPLS participated; of the Ministry of Industry, Foreign Trade and Services (MDIC); the Extra Regional Trade Negotiations Department of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Confederation of Agriculture and Livestock of Brazil (CNA).
“Brazil is negotiating the overcoming of tariff and non-tariff barriers imposed on Brazilian agricultural products and, thus, increasing the access of our products, increasing exports,” said Aprosoja Brasil technical advisor Leonardo Minaré Braúna, considering that negotiations between European Union and Mercosur continue without significant progress.
For Canada, Brazil’s objective is to reduce tariffs to expand exports of beef and poultry, sugar and coffee. In contrast, the United States sells fertilizers used in agricultural production.
In May of this year an agreement with South Korea began, considered broad and ambitious. The Asian country is currently the seventh largest producer of machinery in the world. South Koreans import virtually every food they consume, such as meat, sugar and coffee. In this case, the problem is the tariffs considered by the Brazilians to be very high.
“They apply tariffs on different Brazilian maize and soybeans to other Asian countries and the United States. About 45% of the soybean meal they consume comes from Brazil with rates of up to 500% above the rates practiced in other countries. There are opportunities to review these Korean government tariffs on corn, soybeans and meats from Brazil, “added Minaré.
This text was translated by machine from Brazilian Portuguese.