Thank you for repeating your question.

They are obviously not happy. Perhaps you could outline their perspective so we can have a discussion

Chill bruv… Can we not have a civil discussion? I’d be happy to change my mind.

Food being sold in the EU still have to meet EU food health and safety standards. Regardless of where it comes from this is legally the case. How these things are verified/policed is a different question and idk the situation on that. If enforcement is not good, that issue would still be there even without the bill. The bill probably won’t increase imports much so these policing problems likely wont grow.

Their stuff is cheaper for 2 reasons. The costs of running their farms is cheaper due to cheap labour with fewer workers rights. Conversely, cost of running farms in the EU is more expensive due to higher salaries, workers rights, and that other inputs are more expensive than elsewhere (I understand that fertiliser is quite expensive here for example). This is what tariffs protected against before and, like I said before, the deal only allows for a small proportion of those imports to not be tariffed. I think it will only be a small impact to farmers though, obviously, not 0 impact.

My point is that this deal likely won’t increase exports from there to the EU (in most categories). So this notion that the continent will be overrun by cheap, unsafe food doesn’t stand up when you see how little extra south American agro exports there will likely be imported

I mean, obviously they don’t want competition… That’s fair enough but they aren’t the only people that live in the EU. They are already subsidised and there are provisions for more subsidies if needed.

If the deal improves trade and grows the EU economy, we can afford to subsidise them more in future when needed

There are many quotas on agricultural products from south America to the point where major South American agro exports can only supply 1-10% of total current EU consumption tariff free. I believe honey was highest around 10% of total EU demand with most being around 1-3% such as for beef. For most agro products, South America exports more stuff to Europe than the tariffs would cover

To mee, it seems these quotes probably mean there will be little change in agro exports from South America since the tariff on those items have only been slightly relieved. We should definitely protect EU farmers but we shouldn’t hold up the rest of the economy for them.

This address must be their European HQ. Given their telephone number starts with +1 and all other sources say San Francisco is their base, it’s fair to say not European.

To their credit though, it’s a US company that is actually doing great stuff with laptop repairability. Hope Fairphone, tuxedo or others uses their designs to make their own modular laptops that are intercompatible