Cotance joins joint letter to EU to drive forward EU-Mercosur agreement
Cotance has signed a joint letter, alongside 18 other organisations, urging the European Union to move forward with the EU-Mercosur free trade agreement. Read More...
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Brazilian footwear meets with Mercosur over Argentinian restrictions
The Brazilian Footwear Industry Association (Abicalçados) has met with Mercosur to discuss concerns around Argentina’s import restrictions.
Read More...EU and Mercosur countries enter trade agreement
The European Union and Mercosur countries, whose members include Argentina, Brazil, Paraguay, and Uruguay, have entered an EU-Mercosur association trade agreement. With the political agreement being reached in June 2019. The European Footwear Manufacturers’ Association (CEC) has joined with other EU representative bodies to push for the benefits of the agreement to be ratified and come into force.
Read More...Mercosur to progressively decrease duty on EU footwear imports
Despite the European Confederation of the Footwear Industry’s request for full tariff liberalisation from day one of the free trade agreement, leather shoes exported from the EU to the Mercosur economic bloc is to progressively benefit from free market access.
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European footwear praises EU-Mercosur agreement
Encompassing a combined population of 780 million and more than a trillion euros of combined trade and services, the recently signed free trade agreement is expected to create various opportunities for EU footwear companies.
Read More...EU beef producers see EU-Mercosur trade agreement as a threat
After 20 years of negotiations, the Mercosur economic bloc and the European Union reached an agreement for a trade deal which concerns a market of about 800 million people. The EU represents Mercosur's biggest trade and investment partner and its second largest for trade in goods.
Read More...Cotance and CICB pledge for an acceleration of EU-Mercosur FTA
Cotance (the Confederation of National Associations of Tanners and Dressers of the European Community) and the CICB (Centre for the Brazilian Tanning Industry) have released a joint statement in support of a free trade agreement (FTA) between the EU and Mercosur economic blocks.
Read More...Final phase of EU-Mercosur FTA agreement on hides, skins and leathers
No formal agreement has yet been reached on the promised dismantling of export restrictions and duties applied by Mercosur countries on hides, skins and semi-processed leather.
Read More...Minerva Foods benefits from JBS assets
A fall in cattle prices, the incorporation of JBS’ Mercosur beef processing operations and the beginning of a recovery in domestic meat sales, are said to have boosted the performance of Minerva Foods in the third quarter of 2017.
Read More...Colombia drops surtax on Mercosur footwear imports
Colombia’s Ministry of Commerce has suspended a 35% tariff surcharge on imports of footwear from the Mercosur region.
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