Country · Latin America · 3 briefings
Briefings focused on Brazil — production, land and frontier risk. Related intelligence follows Latin America.
From 15 October, citrus consignments from the Americas entering the EU need an additional phytosanitary certificate declaration addressing citrus fruit borer. For Brazilian growers, the compliance deadline arrives amid crop losses and pressure to make smallholder-scale diversification and shared verification commercially viable.
No babassu-specific enforcement action or compliance failure was verified for 26 September–10 October 2026; the latest binding scope clarification took effect on 18 September. For Asia-facing buyers, the pressing exposure is climate stress on community supply—and the need to distinguish Attalea babassu from regulated oil-palm inputs where tariff descriptions overlap.
UEBT’s 2025 regenerative designs name açaí, castanha and babaçu while Mongabay and Guardian document heat, fire and El Niño load on Amazon extractivism. Cosmetics and nutra offtake is stewardship only when cooperatives keep practice evidence, living-income terms and margin — not when brands rent the word “regen.”