Brazil: FPA articulates and government revokes tariff exemption for import of mozzarella cheese

During the last meeting of the Parliamentary Agricultural Front (FPA), the deputies and senators who were members of the bench were alerted by the sector entities about the losses related to the tariff exemption for mozzarella cheese coming from countries outside Mercosur, such as the unfair competition against the dairy producer in Brazil. In view of this, the FPA articulated with the federal government that the taxation on the importation of the product be reestablished. For the president of the FPA, deputy Sérgio Souza (MDB-PR), the fact that we are a food producing country, with more than 1 million families that produce milk with difficulty, we could not let the situation become even more unfair. . “It was necessary to work with a lot of dialogue for the reestablishment of taxation to guarantee our rural producer of competitiveness. FPA's work is always in favor of the farmer, food security and cheaper food on every Brazilian's table”, he highlighted. Deputy Evair de Melo ...