• Warl0k3@lemmy.world
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    14 days ago

    Claims it’s about illegal deforestation:

    after deciding its practices were unfair on a range of issues from digital trade to ‌illegal deforestation, top trade official Jamieson Greer said late on Monday.

    Exempts beef, coffee and mining from tarrifs:

    New tariffs would exempt beef, coffee, rare earths, pharma, oil


    Honestly I’m pretty here for major world powers using their empires to enforce ecological conservation - like that is one of the few uses of imperialist force I can honestly support. But man, it’d be nice if even that one fuckin’ incredibly far-left thing wasn’t being co-opted by these shitheads…