The Brazilian government returns from its trip to Washington this week without a clear signal as to whether the United States plans to include – or not – Brazil in a resumption of tariffs.
Brazil – like the rest of the world – is already subject to a temporary 10% tariff defined by the American government after the US Supreme Court ruled that Donald Trump could not impose widespread tariffs using a law that grants emergency powers in the economic area to the occupant of the White House.
. This same month, the Trump administration plans to definitively resume the “Liberation Day” series of global tariffs based on the conclusion of administrative processes that investigate commercial practices considered “unfair” by dozens of countries – .
Brazil’s uncertainty about the likely new US tariffs was the subject of analysis in the WW this Friday (18).
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Lourival Saint Anna: This second round of tariffs has many more technical criteria and structural reasons. Now, these commercial sectors of the Trump administration have had time to study the issues from an economic and legal point of view and come up with something much more solid. What comes now is something more consistent and guided by American economic interests.
Thais Herédia: Brazil is in the middle of a plan that the United States has to resume tariffs, especially because they (Trump government) need the US$ 200 billion that the Trump government would receive with tariffs and were lost with the Supreme Court’s decision. And Scott Bessent (US Treasury Secretary) is talking every other day, and the next, too: he is already warning that this will happen.
Jussara Soares: President Lula’s best moment, when he rises in the polls and increases his popularity, was precisely when he faced the toughest confrontation with the United States and Donald Trump in the face of sanctions applied here – including the Magnitsky Act. So, they (Lula’s government) will balance between “I want to talk” and “I won’t stop criticizing”.
* Published by Henrique Sales Barros
