Brazil court restores Amazon-protecting soy moratorium
Wednesday, 27 August 2025 () Rio De Janeiro, Brazil (AFP) Aug 26, 2025
A Brazilian court has reinstated a pact between commodities traders not to buy soybeans grown in deforested areas of the Amazon, a week after it was struck out as anticompetitive. A federal judge overturned the decision by Brazil's competition regulator, Cade, to scrap the two-decade-old pact credited with slowing deforestation. Cade had ruled that the 2006 deal, known as the soy mor