Trade and tariff analytics
2026-04-26
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EU Mercosur 2026: The Political Endgame After Montevideo
The December 2024 political agreement broke a 25 year logjam. The 2026 ratification fight will be won or lost on bifurcation, beef quotas, and whether Paris can convince Rome and Warsaw to vote down a deal that Berlin, Madrid, and Brasilia all want.
The EU Mercosur agreement, initialled at the Montevideo summit on 6 December 2024, reopened a dossier first signed in 1999 and frozen after the 2019 political accord collapsed. The 2026 ratification path now runs through a deliberate legal bifurcation: the Trade Pillar travels under Article 207 TFEU as an EU only competence, requiring qua...