Senator Flávio Bolsonaro (PL-RJ) stated that “no one is happy” with 50% tariffs imposed by US President Donald Trump on Brazilian products. In an interview with Globo News on Friday, 11, the former president’s son also said that Brazil has no negotiation with the US and defended the amnesty of the convicts of the January 8 attack as a way to avoid taxation.
“No one is happy with what is happening to Brazil no, I’m here distressed, very worried. I’m even more worried because the president is Lula,” the politician said when asked if the imposition of tariffs on a whole country would be fair to benefit his allies.
The former president’s son admitted that the US measure is not purely commercial, but also a way to press Brazil. “The sanction that Trump imposes is not merely economic, we all know this, it has a political bias, and has an economic bias, because Trump looks at South America and sees where Lula is taking our country.”
In the letter sent on July 9 to communicate the tariffs, Donald Trump stated that the way Brazil has “treated” Bolsonaro is “an international misfortune,” and that the former president’s judgment “should not be occurring.” The document also classified requests to remove content from online platforms issued by the Supreme Court as “secret and illegal censorship orders.”
Flávio Bolsonaro claims that amnesty and the end of content removal on platforms is a way to avoid rates. “We have little time to be able to give a solution before it arrives on August 1st (the date the rates come into force). Because I see no difficulty for Trump to pass this tax to 100%, 200% or ZERE, or put 200% more the magnitsky law, which will punish people individually in Brazil,” he said.
The use of magnitsky law, a device that allows the US government to apply punishments to public servants from other countries for violation of human rights, was already suggested by licensed federal deputy Eduardo Bolsonaro (PL-SP), who abandoned his mandate and moved to the US, where he asked for sanctions against the Supreme to President Trump
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Flávio states that he imagined that his brother’s requests would yield reprisals for Minister Alexandre de Moraes, but was surprised by the taxation of 50% over all products in the country.
