The Complicated World of American and European Food

Why the EU and Canada don’t accept American food products.

Farmer and attorney John Klar with his Hereford cows at his homestead in Brookfield, Vt., on Sept. 12, 2025. Samira Bouaou/The Epoch Times

Commentary

Donald Trump has consistently highlighted that the European Union is blocking American agricultural exports or rendering them economically unviable. His administration echoes this with the USTR 2025 National Trade Estimate Report saying, regarding the EU, that “the United States is concerned that these measures may unnecessarily restrict trade without furthering safety objectives, because they appear to be applied beyond the extent necessary to protect human, animal, or plant life or health, not based on science, or maintained without sufficient scientific evidence.”