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Uruguay Wins 63% of Mercosur Rice Quota to Europe for 2026

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Uruguay · Trade & Agriculture Key Facts —The result: Uruguay captured 63 percent of the 2026 Mercosur rice quota to the European Union, exhausting the entire 6,667-tonne tariff-free volume allocated under the interim trade agreement that took provisional effect on May 1, according to Uruguay’s deputy foreign minister Valeria Csukasi. —What was at stake: The […] The post Uruguay Wins 63% of Mercosur Rice Quota to Europe for 2026 appeared first on…

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“The agreement with Europe shows its fruits: today is rice,” said the President of the Republic, Yamandú Orsi, after the closure of the tariff-free quota granted under the agreement between Mercosur and the European Union. National production occupies 63% of the total quota, said the Acting Minister for Foreign Affairs, Valeria Csukasi. The quota of rice that enters this year from Mercosur to the European market without tariffs was completed thi…

“Because there are officials who work quietly and have their shirt on, today we can shout a goal,” Yamandu Orsi said.

·Bogotá, Colombia
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This was detailed by Vice Chancellor Valeria Csukasi in a message published in her social network account X in which she explained that the quota allowed for this year is over. "Today we can confirm that the EU's rice quota granted to Mercosur for the whole year (6,667 tons) is over. And Uruguay kept 63% of the total. Uruguay does not sleep; and less sleeps its productive sector," she wrote. Uruguayan Vice Chancellor Valeria Csukasi, in an archi…

Uruguay consolidated an outstanding commercial participation by capturing 63 per cent of the total export quota for duty-free rice awarded by the European Union to the Mercosur bloc for the period 2026. The preferential allocation falls within the terms of the economic partnership agreement between the two continental blocs, whose provisional application in international markets began to govern effectively last May 1, opening direct opportunitie…

“Because there are officials who work quietly and have their shirt on, today we can shout a goal,” Yamandu Orsi said.

·Uruguay
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El Observador broke the news in Uruguay on Thursday, May 21, 2026.
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