Europeans screwed us over: Argentina, along with Brazil and Paraguay, was classified as "standard" risk by the regulations

Just over seven months remain before the start of the European Union's "anti-deforestation" regulation – which aims to completely transform the way of marketing agro-industrial products – and Argentina has just received very bad news in this regard. The EU-27 regulation 1115 determines that starting January 1, 2026, agro-industrial products from areas deforested after December 31, 2020, will not be able to enter its territory. The goods covered by the measure are palm oil, beef, soybeans, coffee, cocoa, wood, charcoal, and rubber, as well as products derived from them. European importing companies can only bring such products into community territory if the supplier has issued a "due diligence" declaration validating that the product does not come from deforested lands. In practice, the new European legislation requires supplier nations to have a traceability system with geo-referenced information of the productive units where export products were generated. Additionally, the new ...