Vietnam’s coffee farmers brace for compliance challenges under new EU deforestation laws

Vietnam, the second biggest coffee exporter in the world, is bracing for compliance challenges over a new anti-deforestation trade law by the European Union. Businesses said the new law will affect Vietnam’s farmers and exporters, who will have to grapple with the complex paperwork of providing verifiable evidence of deforestation-free supply chain management. CNA's Tung Ngo reports.
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[@pushslice]

Europeans take bureaucracy-for-the-sake-of-it to an unenviable next-level. I’ve started to see more trickles of Vietnam’s specialty-grade coffees being imported around Asia and North America. We love it ! please send more, Vietnam. We won’t make life painful for you!

[@leehyunsong7001]

Yeah dont sell to EU😂

[@johntwohy8337]

Europe doesn't produce coffee but it creates laws for coffee-producing countries to obey.

[@Liboch]

Small oil palm farmers are facing the same challenge, and even much worse. They can't even send their oil palm fruit to palm oil mill, because palm oil mill is required to only receive fruit from certified plantation to conform with the EU sustainable requirements. Getting certification is cumbersome and expensive, only big plantations are able to get them, and renew them.

[@Hs5687]

EU should also apply the same High Traceability Standards to the Wealth Transfer that Occured during Colonisation .

[@user-ug3rz4cu4s]

Aww someone's ancestors were not very good at fighting wars?

[@vinhvu5986]

There weren't too many colonial possessions left in Vietnam. After 1954, the French destroyed all factories, power stations, and farms in Vietnam, with them better destroying it than falling into the hands of the Vietnamese. Currently, Vietnam's coffee processing industry is mainly built by the Soviet Union and East Germany

[@SK-lt1so]

EU "deforested" one thousand years ago, so rules don't apply to them.

[@bobbymiddleton4817]

Price of coffee in EU will jump five fold when China and Russia take in the bulk of rejected Vietnam coffee.

[@tuapuikia]

The EU likes to come out with a lot of funny rules and regulations. They have too much free time on their hands.

[@godsamazinggrace5331]

Vietnamese coffee gonna be expensive soon!!

[@deschan2246]

It will be cheap in places outside EU. Supply will be higher than demand.

[@godsamazinggrace5331]

This earthly life is made tougher and tougher by sinful humans!! Man-made rules, regulations, laws ,etc

[@deschan2246]

EU deforestation laws will impact palm oil producers (Msia n Indonesia) more than coffee producers

[@thomasho9637]

It is simply a form of protectionist policy.

[@ssuwandi3240]

Better trade with China

[@user-ug3rz4cu4s]

​@@callmesweet8344but Luckin coffee is the largest coffee chain in China, bigger than Starbucks there.

[@callmesweet8344]

@@user-ug3rz4cu4s yeah and?

[@callmesweet8344]

most of the top consumers of Coffee are from Europe it would be a waste not to market ur product there

[@callmesweet8344]

China prefers Tea over Coffee.

[@user-ug3rz4cu4s]

@@callmesweet8344 so China is no longer just a tea drinking country.

[@louistan7560]

Don't sell them coffee beans. The first company to collapse will be Nespresso.

[@Danderman888]

What goes round will come back around. The EU will have to prepare for unbearable pain in years to come as karma for their past sins. Just be patient!

[@slipknot8441]

SG is doing the same slandering its SEA neighbors over the past yrs til now..

[@jarrodyuki7081]

Vietnamese coffee is the best!!!!

[@happymelon7129]

Indonesia, Malaysia criticise EU for 'discriminatory and punitive' actions against palm oil sector ollowing a joint trade mission to the European Union (EU), Malaysia and Indonesia criticised the European Union Deforestation Regulation (EUDR) as "inherently discriminatory and punitive in nature". In a joint statement on Wednesday (May 31), both countries warned that the regulation would have detrimental effects on international trade and also hinder the palm oil industry’s efforts towards the 2030 Agenda for the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Goal 12 of the SDGs, focusing on responsible consumption and production, states that parties should ensure sustainable consumption and production patterns. “(Malaysia and Indonesia) expressed their hope that the EU would observe the principles of transparency, non-discrimination, consistent with World Trade Organisation (WTO) rules and regulations, particularly in trading palm oil and its products,” said the statement. “Indonesia and Malaysia believed that the EUDR should not create trade distortion nor be discriminatory in terms of product coverage and national treatment.” It added: “While developing countries continue to engage in building a sustainable multilateral trading system, it is imperative that new regulations should be achieved through a balance, inclusive, deliberated, and non-trade restrictive approach.”

[@jchung5265]

I am beginning to see Eu's emphasis in "de risking", Vietnam definitely placed too much trust in it's coffee partner! Maybe china can help with de risking?

[@harukrentz435]

Heres a solution: stop selling our products to eu for atleast 1 year and see how those europeans enjoying their inflation.

[@happymelon7129]

8-6-2023 Indonesia, Malaysia To Fight Against EU Palm Oil 'Discrimination' Indonesian President Joko Widodo on Thursday called for stronger collaboration with Malaysia to protect palm oil products threatened by a European Union trade law he termed "discrimination". The European Parliament adopted the new legislation in April that will ban imports deemed to be driving deforestation, throwing the bloc's trade muscle behind a global fight against climate change. The law, which is awaiting final approval from EU member countries, would restrict imports from around the world on coffee, cocoa, soy, timber, palm oil, cattle, printing paper and rubber. Imports that come from land deforested after December 31, 2020, will be prohibited in the huge EU market -- the third-largest for both Indonesia and Malaysia. "Do not let the commodities produced by Malaysia and Indonesia be discriminated by other countries," Widodo said at a joint press conference alongside Malaysian Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim. "We need to continue to strengthen this collaboration," he said after the two leaders met in Malaysia's administrative capital Putrajaya.

[@bernhotl-wq7om]

It's unbecoming of EU creating more hurdles that doesn't suits developing nations. ASEAN is the next big market. ASEAN members should start working together & stop exporting to EU. Keep everything to build up ASEAN's undevelope markets. Let EU rot in their own sinister politics.

[@juamu1132]

europe's bureaucracy shocked even the vietnamese. now that say's a lot

[@ArabicReja973]

*The international law* is very clear on the South China Sea: - parts of it belong to some ASEAN countries including Vietnam 🇻🇳, - the rest of it is the international water, - no part of it belongs to China🇨🇳 or Taiwan🇹🇼.

[@wagyumatsusaka2546]

GOOD REPORT

[@mosqutio88]

What a joke. 🤦🏻‍♂️

[@123foxery]

good news. I like it!

[@devildevil2271]

EU can't survive without Chinese but can survive without ASEAN 😂😂

[@callmesweet8344]

China is air now?

[@ssuwandi3240]

Both China and abysmal Green transition..

[@nolonger9112]

Nah just a new way to say "give us the bribe"

[@nomadblueprint]

Yeah right new rules so called deforestation the fact that all of our oil palm systems re managed accordingly to their ISO standard (HQ in Geneva) When those govt officers tryna questioned those hanky panky rules and propaganda -the EU ambassador himself here in KL could not answered but the replied seems that they wanna “something in return” lol. Thank god I’ve screenshots that zoom session in 2021 lol 😂 Just accept the fact that you guys have less natural resources to turn into trillion dollar profits…that’s all !!! What a biased region lol always wanna steal in a manipulative way lol 😂😂😂

[@arwanasuperred1321]

Just say it is made in singapore

[@lamjianyuan]

6 years ago, pm Lee fainted on the stage of the NDP rally 2017. This year, pm Lee is on 2weeks COVID 19 leave. With 9-10% GST, high cost of living and tons of foreigners, How many years of pap's rubbish ironfisted, dictatorial rule must Singaporeans endure or still tolerate?