Spain: ASAJA urges EC to halt the EU-Mercosur Agreement negotiations
"It's not logic that while Mercosur countries add up more obstacles to European commerce in their territory, in the European Union there's an effort to improve the established conditions in the commercial Agreement between the two areas", affirmed Francisco Vargas, president of ASAJA AlmerÃa. Because of it, the agricultural organization called on the Citrus Working Group, in Brussels, to stop the negotiations on the Mercosur Agreement, saying "with the European Commission reports reflecting the barriers to investment and restrictions to maritime transportation and the export of raw materials by Brazil and Argentina in the last year".
According to the Association of Young Farmers "To include barriers to the external commerce imposed by Argentina in the first three months of 2012, some practices that managed a country's growth regarding imports of 0%, regarding the same period of the previous year, when they were growing 36%".
They even point out that "Argentina is going to present to the other members of Mercosur to raise by 35% the external tariff paid by third party countries for products entering any of the four members of the Mercorsur".
Source: Ideal