{"id":680069,"date":"2026-01-07T14:16:12","date_gmt":"2026-01-07T14:16:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/680069\/"},"modified":"2026-01-07T14:16:12","modified_gmt":"2026-01-07T14:16:12","slug":"italy-demands-to-exempt-fertilizers-from-tariffs-eu-carbon-border-levy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/680069\/","title":{"rendered":"Italy demands to exempt fertilizers from tariffs, EU carbon border levy"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"yf-vbsvxt\">BRUSSELS, Jan 7 (Reuters) &#8211; Italian Agriculture Minister Francesco Lollobrigida asked the \u200bEuropean Commission on Wednesday \u200cto exempt fertilizers from import levies in a \u200cbid to help farmers compete with farm produce from South American bloc Mercosur.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-vbsvxt\">&#8220;The alarming market situation suggests \u2060a suspensive \u200cclause on the CBAM (carbon border levy) should be activated \u200das soon as possible,&#8221; he said in a letter to European Commissioner for \u200bAgriculture Christophe Hansen, ahead of \u200ca meeting of EU agriculture ministers to discuss a proposed free trade agreement with Mercosur.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-vbsvxt\">&#8220;In the immediate future, however, I would consider it \u2060appropriate to adopt \u200ba parallel measure to \u200bthe benefit of our farmers through the elimination of duties \u200don fertilizers \u2060imported from third countries,&#8221; Lollobrigida said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-vbsvxt\">He added he hoped the \u2060Wednesday meeting could break the deadlock on \u200cMercosur deal.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-vbsvxt\">(Reporting by Inti Landauro \u200cand Philip Blenkinsop)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BRUSSELS, Jan 7 (Reuters) &#8211; Italian Agriculture Minister Francesco Lollobrigida asked the \u200bEuropean Commission on Wednesday \u200cto exempt&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":680070,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5174],"tags":[11664,2000,299,5187,2557,10686,174268,22708],"class_list":{"0":"post-680069","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-eu","8":"tag-christophe-hansen","9":"tag-eu","10":"tag-europe","11":"tag-european","12":"tag-european-commission","13":"tag-fertilizers","14":"tag-francesco-lollobrigida","15":"tag-mercosur"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115854244821822564","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/680069","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=680069"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/680069\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/680070"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=680069"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=680069"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=680069"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}