Bilateral safeguard clause of the EU-Mercosur Partnership Agreement and the EU-Mercosur Interim Trade Agreement for agricultural products

AdoptedProvisional agreementReference A10-0254/2025Committee INTAInternational trade Foreign affairs

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Greens/EFA53

The European Parliament adopted by 483 votes to 102, with 67 abstentions, a legislative resolution on the proposal for a regulation of the European Parliament and of the Council implementing the bilateral safeguard clause of the EU-Mercosur Partnership Agreement and the EU-Mercosur Interim Trade Agreement for agricultural products.The proposed regulation sets out how the EU could temporarily suspend tariff preferences envisaged in the EU-Mercosur trade deal on agricultural imports from the Mercosur countries (Argentina, Brazil, Paraguay, and Uruguay), if a surge in these imports harms EU producers.Parliament adopted its position at first reading by amending the Commission's proposal…