EUDR before the World Trade Organization

The European Union on 25 September seemingly turned down appeals from the World Trade Organization’s Director-General as well as several countries, including the United States, to delay the implementation regulation on deforestation-free products, which is slated to come into effect on 30 December 2024. At a meeting of the WTO’s Committee on Agriculture on 25 September, the EU appears to have rebuffed calls from the Director General, Ms Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, several industrialized countries such as the United States, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand, and some developing countries, including Indonesia and some from South America ...