Trump’s Trade War Hits a New Low with Big Tariffs on Brazil

La Jornada

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Santiago. Brazil’s president, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, said yesterday that we still cannot talk about a trade war with the United States, despite the decision of the U.S. president, Donald Trump, to impose a 50 percent tariff on Brazilian products.

El Pais

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For many reasons, it is very difficult to find a background to the crisis that broke out in the bilateral relationship between the United States and Brazil. Perhaps the most powerful has been the method used by Donald Trump to untie it. A letter that bears his signature and announces that it will punish with a 50% increase in import rates to Brazilian products entering the American market, as revenge for the criminal proceedings that are followe…

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Eduardo Bolsonaro, son of former Brazilian president Jair Bolsonaro, said that the 50 percent tariffs announced by Trump to Brazil could be eliminated if the amnesty is approved for his father. “The ball is on his court, Congress. Simply vote for the amnesty and will be the protagonists of the 50 percent tariff elimination announced by the U.S.,” said Eduardo Bolsonaro, in a publication in X. “I don’t seek to be president, I want justice,” said …

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Donald Trump's threat of tariffs against Brazil due to a judicial investigation involving his political ally, former President Jair Bolsonaro, took the Supreme Federal Court in Brasília by surprise.