The EU wants to block imports of certain foodstuffs made to different standards to protect its farmers in an echo of US President Donald Trump’s “reciprocal” trade policy.
The European Commission will agree next week to explore greater import limits, according to three officials, a move that would raise tensions with trading partners. Early targets could include US crops such as soyabeans which are grown using pesticides EU farmers are not allowed to use.
“We have very clear signals from the parliament, very clear signals also from the member states and from our farmers: whatever is banned in the EU, it should be banned in the EU, even if it is an imported product,” health commissioner Olivér Várhelyi said in an interview last month.
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