Brazil Regulator Agrees to Keep Amazon Soy Ban Through 2025 (2)

Brazil’s antitrust regulator ruled in favor of major soybean traders, saying companies including Cargill Inc. and Bunge Global SA are allowed to continue a pact that boycotts crops from recently deforested land in the Amazon.

A majority of regulator Cade’s counselors voted Tuesday to lift through the remainder of 2025 a preventive measure enacted in August that suspended the moratorium. Activities related to the moratorium, such as the auditing of soy suppliers, may continue through the end of the year.

The decision gives companies and government agencies enough time to deliberate and reach an understanding, said counselor José Levi Mello ...