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EU plans Trump-style restrictions on food imports

The first targets could include US agricultural products, such as soybeans, grown with pesticides

Newsroom February 16 11:00

The European Union plans to block imports of comparable food that meet different standards in an effort to protect its farmers, echoing the U.S. president’s trade policy of reciprocal tariffs Donald Trump, according to a report in today’s Financial Times.

The European Commission will agree next week to consider tighter restrictions on imports, according to the paper, whose authors cite three unnamed officials.

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The first targets could include U.S. agricultural products, such as soybeans, grown with pesticides, the use of which is banned for farmers in the EU, according to the paper.

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