Brazil vows to match US tariffs after Trump threatens 50% levy

Brazilian President Luiz Inosio Lula da Silva said he was ready to match any tariff imposed on Brazil by the United States.

It was not for a threat on Wednesday by his American counterpart, Donald Trump, to Import 50 % import tax on Brazilian goods from August 1.

In a message, Trump indicated that Brazil is treated for former President Geer Bolsonaro as an operator to lift the customs tariff.

Polsonaro is currently trying to try to organize a coup against Lula after he was defeated in the 2022 elections.

Trump referred to Bolsonaro as “a very respectable leader all over the world.” “This trial should not take place,” he wrote, calling for Brazil to end the “witch’s chase” immediately against the former president.

Trump’s support for Polsonaro was not a surprise because the two men have long been considered allies.

The US President had already criticized Brazil for his treatment of Polsonaro on Monday, and compared him to the legal cases he himself faced in the American courts.

The tariff threat was met with a strong and long response by the President Lula.

In a post on X, he stressed that Brazil was “a sovereign state with independent institutions and will not accept any guardianship.”

The Brazilian leader also announced that “any increase in one side” will get a mutual tariff imposed on American goods.

The United States is the second largest commercial partner in Brazil after China, so the increase in the rate of customs tariffs by 10 % to 50 % of the standard – if it enters into force – it will strike the South American state strongly.

But had it not been for Trump’s assertion challenge that the United States is suffering from a trade deficit with Brazil, describing it as “inaccurate”.

It supports Disnah if not for US government dataThis indicates that the United States has a 7.4 billion dollars (5.4 billion pounds) in Brazil in 2024.

Brazil is the largest commercial partner in the United States, and among the main imports of the United States, metal fuel, aircraft and machinery.

For its part, the United States imports gas, oil, iron and coffee from Brazil.

Brazil was not the only country that Trump threatened with definitions on Wednesday.

Japan, South Korea and Sri Lanka were among the 22 countries that received messages warning of high fees.

But the message that Trump sent to his Brazilian counterpart was the only issues that focus on the alleged trade deficit.

In addition to condemning the treatment of former President Bolsonaro, Trump criticized what he said was “secret and illegal control orders for American social media platforms,” ​​he said that Brazil had imposed it.

Media Trump, who runs the social truth platform of the American president and owned by the majority, is among the American technology companies fighting the Brazilian court’s rulings on orders to suspend social media accounts.

Lula on this front also resisted, which justifies judgments by saying that “the Brazilian society rejects the abhorrent content, racism, pornography of children, fraud, fraud, speeches against human rights and democratic freedom.”

“Instead of harming him, the excessive political tone of Trump’s message may eventually end to Lula.

“Those who face Trump wins at home when Trump and other conservative leaders talk about issues related to their countries,” says Cortez of other leaders who have identified Trump and reap the rewards in an increasing form of popular levels.

Creomar De Souza told Dharma Politics BBC News Mariana Schreiber that it relies on the Lula government that is reaching an organized and united response if it wanted to “score a goal” against Trump.