European Union and Mercosur bloc of South American nations sign landmark free trade agreement

[Zincwarrior]

The EU and South American trade federation Mercosur signed a historic free trade agreement. We are being passed by.

https://apnews.com/article/mercosur-european-union-trade-agreement-south-america-b779460da4b7ecb6aa15d322976fa70

World News
European Union and Mercosur bloc of South American nations sign landmark free trade agreement
By NAYARA BATSCHKE and ISABEL DEBRE
Updated 7:25 PM CST, January 17, 2026

ASUNCION, Paraguay (AP) — The European Union and the Mercosur bloc of South American countries formally signed a long-sought free trade agreement on Saturday, strengthening commercial ties in the face of rising protectionism and trade tensions around the world.

The signing ceremony in Paraguay’s capital, Asuncion, caps more than a quarter-century of torturous negotiations. It marks a major geopolitical victory for the EU in an age of American tariffs and surging Chinese exports, expanding the bloc’s foothold in a resource-rich region increasingly contested by Washington and Beijing.

It also sends a message that South America is keeping a range of trade and diplomatic relationships even as U.S. President Donald Trump makes an aggressive push for geopolitical dominance of the Western Hemisphere.

 

[shockedcanadian]

Passing you by? Global trade isnt new, see CETA, TPP and dozens of other trade deals. Europe will send them wine and cheese, South America will send them bananas, soybeans and grapes or whatever it is they produce.

China will focus on value add manufacturing and flood the EU. America as the global consumer will decide which foreign nations economies thrive and which wobble.

Global dominance will be decided by economic might.

 

[pknopp]

I've been noting for a long time this was going to happen. It was going to happen sooner or later, Trump or not, but Trump is certainly speeding it along.

 

[1srelluc]

Why should I care if some block of latin american shitholes enters into a trade agreement with a weak EU?

 

[Zincwarrior]

Why should I care if some block of latin american shitholes enters into a trade agreement with a weak EU?

Because we are running out of countries to trade with.

 

[zaangalewa]

I've been noting for a long time this was going to happen. It was going to happen sooner or later, Trump or not, but Trump is certainly speeding it along.

Möglicherweise. Er hat vielleicht dabei geholfen den Partnern des Mercosur Abkommens ein wenig behender über den eigenen Schatten zu springen. Dafür hat "Ihre Dunkelheit Donald Trump, Herrscher über die USA von Donald Trumps Gnaden" mit großem "Erfolg" das TTIP(*) Abkommen, das nach sehr langer Zeit nahezu abgeschlossen gewesen war, komplett zerstört. Warum wurde eigentlich das Freihandelsabkommen zwischen Mercorus und den USA niemals abgeschlossen?
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Possibly. He may have helped the partners of the Mercosur Agreement to take a slightly more agile leap over their own shadows. In return, ‘Your Darkness Donald Trump, ruler of the USA by the grace of Donald Trump’ has completely destroyed the TTIP Agreement, which had been almost finalised after a very long time, with great ‘success’. Why was the free trade agreement between Mercosur and the United States never concluded?

(*) TTIP: Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership

 

[zaangalewa]

Passing you by? Global trade isnt new, see CETA, TPP and dozens of other trade deals. Europe will send them wine and cheese, South America will send them bananas, soybeans and grapes or whatever it is they produce.

China will focus on value add manufacturing and flood the EU. America as the global consumer will decide which foreign nations economies thrive and which wobble.

Global dominance will be decided by economic might.

You amaze me, US Russian. I thought the economic credo of the US Department of Agriculture was: ‘Global prosperity is determined by the leading economic super-idiot of the USA. Hail Trump!’

 

[zaangalewa]

Why should I care if some block of latin american shitholes enters into a trade agreement with a weak EU?

Exactly. Why should you, sunshine? Your lack of language skills clearly shows that you are a poor businessman. I don't think you need South America or Europe to become an even bigger idiot than you already are.