A The Federation of Agriculture and livestock in Brazil (CNA), The main agricultural association in the country, on Tuesday (27) requested that European Union An investigation into a potential cartel for French retailers against Brazilian beef in 2024, which would violate the rules of competition in the mass.
CNA accused four of the largest retailers in France – Carrefour, Les Mousquetaires, E. Leclerc and Cooperhat U – to boycott Brazilian beef in November last year.
The organization claims that the four groups made data aimed at distorting meat products from Mercosur countries, without any technical justification for this.
S. The episode broke out when Mercosor and the European Union They approached the end of a commercial agreement, announced in December 2024 and moved strongly by France.
European farmers, especially French, fear that the deal will open the doors for unfair competition.
Alexander Bombard, CEO of Carrefour, said French unions in November that the supermarket “will not sell mecosur meat”.
Senator and former Minister of Agriculture, Theresa Christina, told AFP in Brussels that CNA expects the European Union, “Answer, you know whether these companies acted together to form a cardmal.”
The four networks, which claim the organization, do not have any scientific evidence to support this general position, and the scale still represents a severe blow to an important Brazilian export sector.
The former minister said: “We are working hard to reach this point. We cannot allow such a occurrence again,” said the former minister.
“The problem is not with France,” he said. “
At this stage, he added: “There was great discontent with Argentine producers, Uruguayan and Paraguayan,” because these four companies, “besides reaching Brazil, hit Mercosor.”
CNA Gedéão Pereira Vice President told AFP that the episode could not lead to a wide -ranging image of deficiency. “We will not accept this, neither with the European bloc nor with anyone,” he said.
In response to a question about the economic impact of the accident, Senator Christina said: “It is very difficult to measure it, but it was present.”
“It is a picture of the image. We do not want the image of our products to be allegations that are not compatible with reality,” said Pereira.
