Trump strikes Brazilian products with a 50 % tariff on Bolsonaro
WASHINGTON – The products imported to the United States from Brazil – including nearly a third of the offer that depends on it every day by America’s coffee – are subject to a 50 % tariff that begins on Friday, not because of Brazil’s commercial policies, but because of President Donald Trump’s relationship with the former power of the country, Jayyar Bolsonaro, and because of one behavior of Brazil’s upper division.
Trump usually justifies his tariff by referring to the trade deficit of the United States and says other countries benefit from the United States. Many economists do not agree with his point of view, but in this case it does not matter: in fact, the United States has a trade surplus with Brazil hundreds of billions of dollars for more than a decade, not a deficit.
However, on Friday, Trump imposed a total of 50 % on some products imported from Brazil, the highest rate in any country in the world.
Earlier this week, the Trump administration also slapped the justice of the Supreme Court, Alexander de Mora, with difficult sanctions under Magnitsky, a law that was originally passed by Congress with the intention of punishing Russian President Vladimir Putin and his allies after the death of Sergey Magnitsky, who was investigating Russia. in After xForeign Minister Marco Rubio said the sanctions were imposed “for serious human rights violations.”
What are the alleged human rights violations? De Morais is overseeing the case against Bolsonaro, who was charged with about 30 others – including the former Brazilian Navy commander, former defense minister and former intelligence chief – by trying to organize a coup to prevent the current president, Luiz Inola Da Silva, from taking office after Bolsonaro’s defeat in 2022.
Brazil’s Supreme Federal Court ordered Polsonaro to wear an ankle screen and not to go on social media, summon foreign leaders or leave the country waiting for his trial. Three Brazilian officials indicated NBC News that after one of his sons, Eduardo Bolsonaro, a member of the Brazilian Congress visiting the United States, imposed on the recruitment of Steve Bannon and Maga’s other allies to attract Trump’s attention and defended pressure on Brazil on his father’s box.
De Mora also ordered a ban in Brazil from the social media platform X, which is owned by Trump’s ally at one time, which lasted for more than a month last year after Musk and X refused to appoint a legal representative for their business in the country or comply with the courts’ orders and requests for some accounts and sites related to the elections.
Trump social media, Trump Media, has A lawsuit against De Morais Because of a comment issued by the Rumble Video Hosting Company, which Trump uses the media for the social truth platform.
“The way Brazil treats former President Bolsonaro, a leader with great respect all over the world during his term, including the United States, is an international shame. This trial should not occur. It is a charming chase that must end immediately!” Trump said in a letter he sent to the Brazilian president, known widely as Lula, and It was published on the social truth On July 9.
Trump’s message continued to link the prosecution of Bolsonaro and the provisions of social media in de Morris to the definitions that he will prefer later: “Partially due to the malicious Brazil attacks on free elections, and the basic freedom of expression rights of the American media (as it is clear from the return on the guilty, the guilty threats in the community communication and evacuation from the Brazilian social media market), starting from 1 1 August 2025, we will impose a 50 % tariff on any Brazilian products sent to the United States.
Brazil, the fourth largest democracy in the world, leads popular commodities such as coffee, meat, orange, aircraft, oil, iron and steel to Trump’s American executive command that excludes some products, including oranges, oil and fertilizers, but not coffee or beef.
Trump’s actions against Brazil have gathered the political aspects of the country to some extent.
A delegation, including Polsonaro supporters and a former member of the Council of Ministers, met with the Brazilian Foreign Defense Relations and Defense Committee in Washington this week with Democratic members of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee and Republican Senator Teles to try to get rid of the conflict.
The Brazilian Foreign Minister also traveled to Washington to meet Rubio on Wednesday. American Trade Minister Howard Lootnick spoke on the phone with his Brazilian counterpart. They also said that the call was not going well.
It has not yet been announced if Brazil would unite the American tariff or how.
On Thursday, the American Court of Appeal committee heard arguments on a challenge to Trump’s authority to impose a customs tariff by executive order issued by companies and the general lawyers coalition. The customs tariff opponents argue that the White House has not proven the existence of a national emergency to justify Trump’s circumstance of what it is, with some emergency exceptions, is supposed to be the authority of Congress on the customs tariff.
Many judges in the committee pressed the lawyer of the Ministry of Justice, which represents the government on the president’s right to impose severe duties using the economic emergency law, not specifically definitions. No last president has tried to impose a tariff under the 1977 law that the Trump administration refers to. The case is expected to finally end in the Supreme Court.