The EU regulation on combating deforestation (EUDR) could well be in breach of World Trade Organization (WTO) rules, according to a report by the ECIPE think tank, published on Thursday 26 September. The authors of the document based their analysis on two examples of US legislation with similar contours, which have been the subject of arbitration at the WTO.
The General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT), which dictates the rules of the WTO, prohibits member countries from...