Experts analyze the impacts of Donald Trump’s decree, which came into force on Wednesday (6.ago)
The president of the United States, (Republican), signed at the end of July the decree that formalized the application of 50% tariffs on Brazilian products. The new rules on Wednesday (6.ago.2025).
Regarding Brazilian sport, experts claim that impacts can be felt in goods such as equipment, uniforms, medical supplies and other items. In football, the impact tends to be limited.
Limited Effects on Sport
For COO da Brazil, Thiago Freitas, the national sports market must feel indirect effects, but with a limited short -term impact.
“The money that sport moves in Brazil does not represent 1% of what sport moves around the world. We do not influence global industry. There is a false impression that Brazil is internationally relevant because of the highlight given to our politicians’ speeches, but data show that each year we represent less for the world as economy, as a market.”told the Poder360.
Freitas estimates that the impact on the sports market will be “Due to the reduction of jobs that new tariffs will generate, but that must be residual.”
“We have a small percentage of our population effectively ‘spending money’ on sport. We have many viewers, but few consumers, and in Brazil, given the massification of the so -called ‘piracy’, viewer is not necessarily consumer.”said the businessman.
The president of, Fábio Pizzamiglio, agrees with the assessment that the tariff tends not to affect the Brazilian sport so much: “How tariffs apply to the importation of Brazilian products by the US, the national sports sector, and especially football, tends to feel very limited effects.”
“It is possible that some Brazilian exporters, who work as club sponsors or athletes, feel the economic effects. However, as most sponsorship in football is currently focused on betting homes, the direct impact on club financing tends to be marginal.”stated Pizzamiglio.
The leader said, however, that the tariff can press the dollar, make imported inputs used in the structures of the clubs, “Inflate the value of Brazilian athletes and increase the pressure for sales abroad”.
CEO da, Vanessa Pires, said the sports sector carefully follows the tariff, “Although direct impacts are more noticeable in logistics and supply areas”,
“There is a concern with the reflexes this can have in the execution of encouraged projects. Therefore, it is increasingly important to strengthen partnerships between companies, governments and proponents through encouragement laws that ensure continuity, scale and positive social impact.”
