Haddad argues that the government has to seek to depolitize the commercial debate, because international trade cannot be used for electoral interests
The Minister of Finance, said, on Monday (4), that the most immediate concern of the economic team is with one third of Brazilian exports that are directed to the US market, and 12% of Brazilian sales to the abroad go to those . “We have 12% of our exports to the United States. Which worries more immediately, because it is uncomputed compared to the rest of the world, it is a third of these 12%, so 4% of our exports,” he said in an interview with BandNews.
With regard to commodities, the largest weight on the Brazilian export agenda, Haddad tried to give a message of tranquility by saying that they can be redirected to other markets. Donald Trump’s surcharge on the part of Donald Trump, he will end up splashing the American consumer himself. “The situation of the US coffee consumer is already being felt with the rate,” said the Minister of Finance, to whom the impact of tariffs is more micro -economic.
The minister stated that from May to July, the issue of tariffs was politicized by the opposition to mix the commercial issue with politics. “It was politicized in a way that no other country lived,” he said. “And we are talking about non -democratic countries, countries that have authoritarian governments, countries that have despotic governments. And not so, the tariffs were used for political purpose. Here, because the opposition has mobilized against national interests, the position of the United States of America has changed from May to July,” he said, adding that “the United States has the right to seek the solution even though it does not have the world, Caused a certain perplexity for being an unusual solution that could be avoided in relation to the country, which claimed to be liberal until another day, ”said the minister.
Haddad argues that the government has to seek to depolitize the commercial debate, as international trade cannot be used for the electoral interests of a country that wants to see Brazil governed by forces that want to deliver national wealth, including rare lands, the critical minerals “PIX, for example, that we understand that it has to be kept under the responsibility of our Central Bank, all of which have nothing to do with commercial debate. We need to understand that, first, we are a sovereign and democratic country. ”
Still, said Haddad, “we have independent powers of each other.” “President Lula cannot get a matter of a matter that concerns another power, so we have been constitutional rules since 1988 that are established; so there are a number of questions that need to be led to the consideration of a country, which until the other day was our partner, to understand the functioning of our democracy, which is different from there.”
*With information from Estadão Content
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