Where German pesticides that are banned in EU got exported to, tonnes, 2018

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by gotshroom

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  4. The world uses that pesticides.
    EU farmers are in disadvantage by not use them.

    A lot of them are actually use in Europe, using emergencies exceptions.

    For me you can ban even the export, so that the jobs move from Germany to Brasil or Turkey.

    I mean, with the current energy and transport cost manufacturing of those pesticides will likely move out of Germany.

    I wonder why Europe economy is lagging behind the USA..

  5. Destroying developing countries, I see. Shocking /s

  6. Oh, that’s why EU push food from SA, good business for germany, as always.

  8. 8k tons is not that much actually.
    For comparison, the EU alone uses about half a million tons per year

  9. Does anyone think if we stop producing them they will disappear? There will simply be another company producing them because these chemicals are not banned outside the EU. Most likely the new companies will be outside the EU with lower worker rights and lower environmental standards.

    The only thing which will work that we totally ban in the EU products which came in contact with chemicals banned in the EU. But I think soon we will see lowered standards or omitted chemical analysis on import to please Trump and other populists.

  11. for comparison, 8.000 tons exported equals to 2.2% of what the EU uses each year, roughly 350.000 tons of pesticides.

  13. So they banned those chemicals, exported them in SAM and now they have Mercosur with SAM?!? Great job EU/Germany!

  14. Such a stupid article. These pesticides are technically banned not because they are more toxic than others, they just need to be CE certified for sale in Europe. So In these countries they are legal for sale under the local authorities with sometimes similar hard guidelines as in Europe. CE certification for chemicals, pharmaceuticals and IVDs in Europe is just really expensive and a lot of work compared to other countries. This is a big regulatory and bureaucratic obstacle for companies and often they let big players handle the European market and concentrate on others. An European company selling products only to China doesn’t need CE at all! More importantly is the certificate by the Chinese authorities. Please correct me if I’m wrong, but this is simply a regulatory issue. Ofc part of these export will never receive CE due being blacklisted but you can’t simply say they are all more dangerous. They are just regulated by other authorities which deemed them acceptable unlike the European authorities. That’s a difference. For example you can’t sell IVDs in the USA without FDA certification too, doesn’t matter if you already sell them in Europe with CE under the UVDR already. If you don’t certify it with the local authorities , you can’t sell it there. Simply as that

  15. Then we are buying fruit from Asia, Africa and South America.

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