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Les négociations actuelles engendreraient « une hausse considérable des importations européennes de viande bovine, de viande porcine, de viande de volaille, de maïs, d'ail, de sucre, d'éthanol, d'agrumes/de jus d'agrumes en provenance de ces pays, ce qui aurait un impact dévastateur sur le secteur agricole européen ainsi que sur l'économie et l'emploi dans les zones rurales ».
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European farmers’ organisation Copa-Cogeca has repeatedly warned of the adverse effects of an FTA with Mercosur. Their chief policy advisor, Shelby Matthews, has argued that ‘one quarter of our food imports already come from Mercosur and we depend on them for two-thirds of our protein feed requirements.’ The current negotiations ‘would cause a huge rise in beef, pork poultry, maize, garlic, sugar, ethanol, citrus fruit/juice imports to the EU from these countries’, and this ‘would have a catastrophic impact on the EU agricultural sector and the economy and employment in rural areas.’ He further argued that ‘offering very competitive Mercosur countries additional access to the EU market would also send another very negative signal to the least developed and ACP countries.’
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