Brazil's Supreme Court upheld state laws penalizing firms that honor the Soy Moratorium, while ruling the anti-deforestation pact itself remains legal.
Brazil · Politics
Key Facts
—The ruling On 12 August 2026, Brazil’s STF upheld state laws that remove tax benefits from Soy Moratorium signatories.
—The pact The Soy Moratorium is a 2006 private deal among grain traders to shun soy from newly cleared Amazon land.
—The twist In the same judgment, the Court also declared the moratorium itself a lawful private agreement, not a cartel.
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