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As Trump takes aim at EU trade, European officials brace for fight
12-Feb-2020 Reuters
A scaled-down deal could include European apples and pears, US seafood, and food safety standards.
Member states ‘in the dark’ over Commission’s talks with the US
11-Feb-2020 Euractiv
A group of EU member states are unhappy about the lack of information from the European Commission on the trade talks with the US and have expressed their “nervousness” about what could be in the deal.
EU ban on US chicken and ’hormone-treated beef’ should be revisited - US Agriculture Secretary
28-Jan-2020 Sputnik
Concerns that a previous EU-US trade deal was anti-democratic and would lower food safety, labour and environmental standards resulted in in mass protests in Germany, Austria and France in 2015.
EU lawmakers clear US beef imports but fault US tariffs
29-Nov-2019 Reuters
European Union lawmakers approved an increase in US beef imports to the EU, a move likely to ease transatlantic tensions.
EU on course to allow in more US beef from 2020
26-Nov-2019 Euractiv
European Union plans to allow more US beef imports cleared a key hurdle when EU lawmakers specialising in trade backed the move, which is likely to ease transatlantic tensions.
European beef farmers struggle amid new US-EU beef trade deal
16-Aug-2019 Xinhua
Yielding to aggressive US policy, the European Union signed a deal with the United States which allows US farmers to sell more beef to Europe and will lead to a meat surplus in the European market.
Trump announces agreement on beef trade with EU
5-Aug-2019 The Irish Times
The EU has agreed to increase the quota allocated to US beef exporters to 35,000 tonnes a year. The total quota of non-hormone-beef permitted to enter the EU market will remain unchanged at 45,000 tonnes.
US-EU trade negotiations in stalemate, Malmström says
24-Jul-2019 Euractiv
The US is not ready to negotiate unless agriculture products are included in the agreement. But agriculture “is a red line for us,” EU’s trade chief said.
Why the new US-EU trade talks may be doomed before they even start
9-May-2019 Fortune
That’s in part because of a long-running catch 22: the US won’t contemplate a deal that doesn’t include agricultural goods, and the EU, keen to protect its own farmers and maintain food standards, refuses to allow a deal that does include them.
Food standards on the menu at US-EU talks
16-Apr-2019 IATP
The US negotiating objectives clearly intend to cover agriculture broadly. One of the trade negotiation mandates adopted by the EU addresses domestic regulatory changes which does not exclude agriculture.