Inside Trade

October 8, 2024

Broad House group urges Biden to formally request EU delay of deforestation regulation

By Dan Dupont  / September 26, 2024 at 11:08 AM
More than 70 House members are pushing President Biden to formally ask the European Union to delay the implementation of a deforestation regulation they say will disrupt trans-Atlantic trade. The EU, however, is standing firm, contending the regulation is needed to ensure a swath of agricultural products sold in Europe have not been grown or benefitted from recently deforested land. In a Sept. 20 letter to the president released this week , the bipartisan group of 73 House members warn...

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