The president of the Brazilian Association of Meat Exporting Industries (Abiec), Roberto Perosa, said the sector of Bovine meat should register a loss of about $ 1 billion over the next six months with the imposition of 50% by the United States. Despite the immediate effect in the sector, Perosa argues that the negotiations with the USA We continue.
The measure comes into force on August 6 and reaches the second
“The impact on the chain we estimated for this rest of the year and then to the subsequent years, but only for those six months, is an impact of about $ 1 billion,” said Perosa, after a meeting at the Ministry of Development, Industry, Commerce and Services (MDIC)
He further pointed out that the Americans have negotiated with several other countries and hopes that there will be retreat in Brazil as well.
“We also have the hope that this will be possible for Brazil, so that we can resume the normal export flow, and the export of the United States is a win-win operation. It wins Brazil, generating wealth, income here in Brazil, and wins the United States containing American inflation,” he said.
