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Focus on: TTIP, food & farming

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A fast track to weaker food standards
20-Mar-2020 CEO
Will the EU concede to the demands of US negotiators on food standards? The Commission can in fact circumvent the mandate by using other methods that make it much easier to weaken standards.
EU scrutiny of GM food is not negotiable
5-May-2020 Friends of the Earth Europe
74 NGOs have written to the EU Commission to demand that genetically modified crops are not pushed onto Europe’s fields and plates as part of a trade deal with the USA.
EU agrees to cut taxes on US lobsters in modest trade pact
11-Sep-2020 AP
The EU agreed to drop its 8% tariff on US lobsters while the US agreed to cut in half tariffs on EU imports, including some prepared meals, crystal glassware and cigarette lighters.
The return of the chlorinated chicken? Trump administration uses tariffs to push for radical EU deregulation
9-Apr-2025 CEO
White House trade adviser Peter Navarro stated that non-tariff barriers, including food safety regulations, are "orders of magnitude" more important than EU tariff rates.
European Commission again prioritises trade over wellbeing of EU population
1-Aug-2025 European Coordination Via Campesina
ECVC expresses outrage at the disastrous EU-US trade deal, sealed by Donald Trump and Ursula von der Leyen last Sunday in Scotland.
ECVC analysis of the EU-US trade deal: The European agri-food sector will bear the huge economic and social costs of the deal, as the burden of US debt is shifted to EU farmers
5-Sep-2025 European Coordination Via Campesina
The European agri-food sector will bear the huge economic and social costs of the deal, as the burden of US debt is shifted to EU farmers.