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Biofuels - the way forward? (Photo: European Community, 2006)

Brazil calls on Brussels to scrap biofuel tariffs

Brazil - the world's largest producer of biofuels – has suggested the EU should scrap its biofuel import tariffs, challenging it to both compete more fairly in international trade while finding ways to live up to its green targets.

Speaking at an International Biofuels Conference in Brussels on Thursday (5 July), Brazilian president Luiz Inacio Lula Da Silva said it was a historic opportunity for the developed world to help build a "prosperous and fair world" but that the barriers to e...

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Biofuels - the way forward? (Photo: European Community, 2006)

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