European pesticide ruling challenges Moroccan exports
The article reviews the impact of the European Commission's proposed move to reduce pesticide residue limits on Moroccan agricultural exports, valued at approximately $2.8 billion. It focuses on the tomato crop, which could lose 325,000 tons in the worst-case scenarios as a result of this change, thereby threatening Morocco's export sustainability to the European market. The new measures include lowering the permissible limit for unauthorized substances to 0.01 mg/kg. This raises concerns about potential conflicts with the World Trade Organization's sanitary measures agreement, with officials demanding that it not be adopted before a full assessment of its implications is conducted.
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