The liberal group published a technical note in which it criticizes the, sanctioned in April by the president (PT) and, for bringing “institutional unpredictability” and weakening the country.
The law allows Brazil to adopt measures in the government for Brazilian products. The regulatory decree was published less than a week after the tariff announcement.
In the evaluation of Livres, the norm breaks “with the Brazilian diplomatic tradition of resolving disputes via.”
Livres states that the measure institutionalizes uncertainty and “weakens Brazil precisely when predictability and technical rigor are scarce active.” “The logic of retaliation may seem assertive, but it transfers the burden to the consumer and compromises the country’s international reputation,” says Magno Karl, political scientist and director of Livres.
He also evaluates that the law uses vacant concepts such as “damage to competitiveness”, which would make room for sectoral pressures and arbitrary decisions. “It’s a blank check with a high cost to the real economy,” he says. “This legislation serves the political narrative, but does not protect the ordinary citizen.”
Free also defends the immediate revocation of the law and the intensification of multilateral diplomacy efforts, on the grounds that “institutional unpredictability is not a sign of sovereignty, but” vulnerability. “
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