Overview

• The tribunal kept in place the preventive halt on the moratorium’s effects for producers in the Amazon while it examines possible anticompetitive conduct.
• Cade ordered the group linked to the pact to stop collecting, sharing or auditing commercial information related to soy production and sales.
• Relator Carlos Jacques said companies could unilaterally adopt zero‑deforestation purchasing rules and rely on public systems such as the Rural Environmental Registry (CAR) without coordinating with rivals.
• Cade’s president Gustavo Augusto said the arrangement may enable coordination among major traders and emphasized that only the investigation will determine whether cartel conduct occurred.
• The moratorium, created in 2006 to exclude soy from areas deforested after 2008, underpins access to markets with due‑diligence rules, as industry groups warn of export and reputational risks and some producer associations advocate ending the pact.