Deputy Eduardo Bolsonaro said on Thursday, 4, that the effort of Brazilian businessmen to try to reduce the US’s tariffs to Brazil will only be effective if the pressure is made in Brasilia. “The first step is to vote for the amnesty,” he said.
“It is very clear that it is not a commercial issue. So the best way for you to solve this is in Brasilia, not here,” the deputy told journalists on Thursday morning.
“If we vote for amnesty, I assure it with peace of mind, we will sit at the table. We do not, because I will not be at this table. But whoever comes here will negotiate, will be sitting in a better position with the Trump government people,” he said.
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Eduardo Bolsonaro said he was invited to participate in a conversation with entrepreneurs on commercial impacts and strategies to deepen the economic partnership between the US and Brazil. But he will not participate in the event of the National Confederation of Industry (CNI), under the private initiative entourage, which came to Washington to try to review President Donald Trump’s tariff against Brazil.
The parliamentarian is meeting businessmen in parallel.
“One of the main messages that we will certainly talk to Brazilian entrepreneurs is to reinforce what was said by Christopher Landau, Marco Rubio’s” 02 “, that the pressure to be made is in Brasilia and that an amnesty is approved,” Bolsonaro said.
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He further stated that it is not an “amnesty for English or American to see.” “It’s a real amnesty, then you put Brazil in a good position to negotiate this rate of tariffs,” he concluded.
White House response to trial
The deputy believes that there will be some response from President Donald Trump’s government to the trial of former President Jair Bolsonaro, who began this week at the Supreme Court and will be resumed next week.
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“I can’t precet, predict right now. But certainly, as President Trump has been publicly talking about this political persecution in Brazil, one imagines that there will be some kind of response,” he told journalists in Washington.
“It may not even be tomorrow, it may not be on the trial date, but I would expect some kind of answer, yes, in the next few moments,” he added.
