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Trump announces 50% tariff on Brazil in retaliation for Bolsonaro trial, trade deficit

UNITED STATES, JUL 9 – The 50% tariff targets Brazil amid accusations of unfair trade and political persecution of former President Bolsonaro, with the tax effective August 1, escalating bilateral tensions.

  • On Wednesday, President Donald Trump announced that beginning August 1, the United States will apply a 50% tax on goods imported from Brazil.
  • Trump linked this tariff to Brazil’s trial of former president Jair Bolsonaro, who testified in June over an alleged 2022 election coup plot.
  • Brazil is a key supplier of orange juice and coffee to the U.S., providing 81% of orange juice imports and about 35% of unroasted coffee.
  • Trump indicated that tariffs would be avoided if Brazil or its companies chose to produce goods domestically in the United States, while JPMorgan described the proposed 50% tariff as “most surprising.”
  • The tariff decision raises questions about U.S.-Brazil trade relations despite the U.S. running a $6.8 billion surplus with Brazil last year and may deepen political tensions.
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The president of the United States, Donald Trump, launched as part of the last offensive of his trade war the most brutal attack on Brazil, a country that threatens a universal tariff of 50%. It is a punishment in full rule, a retaliation, wrote the U.S. president in the letter with which Wednesday announced a tax whose entry into force is scheduled for August 1, for the treatment that the Brazilian justice system is giving to former president J…

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Brazil has now also received mail from US President Trump with the new customs regulations. The country is to pay the highest level of 50 percent on the import of products into the US - for domestic political reasons.

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On Wednesday, US President Donald Trump announced the application of a 50% tariff to imports from Brazil in retaliation for the judicial process against former Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro (2019-2023)."In part due to Brazil's insidious attacks on free elections and the fundamental rights of freedom of expression of Americans, as of August 1, 2025, we will charge a 50% tariff on each and every Brazilian product to the United States, apart f…

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