Washington, the products imported to the United States from Brazil, including almost a third of the offer on which it is based every day by the coffee drinkers in the United States, are subject to a 50% rate that begins on Friday, not by the commercial policies of Brazil, but for the relationship of President Donald Trump with the former president of the countries of the country, Jair Bolsonaro, and for the actions of one of the actions of one of the actions of the judges Brazil
Trump generally justifies his tariffs by pointing out the United States trade deficit and saying that other nations are taking advantage of the United States. Many economists do not agree with their point of view, but it does not matter in this case: the United States actually has a commercial surplus with Brazil hundreds of billions of dollars for more than a decade, not a deficit.
Even so, on Friday, Trump imposed a total 50% rate on certain products imported from Brazil, the highest rate of any country in the world.
Earlier this week, the Trump administration also slapped the judge of the Supreme Court, Alexandre de Moraes, with difficult sanctions under the Magnitsky Law, a law originally approved by Congress with the intention of punishing Russian President Vladimir Putin and his allies after death in Sergei Magnitsky prison, who had been investigating corruption in Russia. In a publication on X, the Secretary of State, Marco Rubio, said that the sanctions had been imposed “for serious human rights abuses.”
What are the supposed abuse of human rights? De Moraes has been supervising the case against Bolsonaro, who is accused of another 30, including the former Commander of the Brazilian Navy, the former Minister of Defense and the former chief of intelligence, when trying to organize a coup d’etat to avoid the current president, Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, to assume the position after he defeated Bolsonaro in a 2022 election.
The Federal Supreme Court of Brazil has ordered Bolsonaro to use an ankle monitor and do not go to social networks, call foreign leaders or leave the country waiting for their trial. Three Brazilian officials noticed NBC News that the penalty was imposed after one of his children, Eduardo Bolsonaro, a Brazilian congressman who visited the United States, worked to resort to Steve Bannon and other allies of Maga to get Trump’s attention and advocate for pressing Brazil about his father’s case.
De Moraes also ordered a prohibition in Brazil of the X Social Network Platform, which is owned by Trump Ally Elon Musk, which lasted more than a month last year after Musk and X refused to designate a legal representative for their businesses in the country or comply with judicial orders and requests to eliminate certain accounts and positions associated with the election of elections.
And Trump’s own social media company Trump Media, has sued De Moraes for a suspension order that issued the Rumble Video Accommodation Company, which Trump Media USA for its Truth social platform.
“The way Brazil has treated former President Bolsonaro, a very respected leader worldwide during his term, even for the United States, is an international misfortune. This trial should not be taken. It is a witch hunt that should end immediately!” Trump said in a letter he sent to the president of Brazil, which is widely known as Lula, and published in Truth Social on July 9.
The Trump letter began the prosecution of Bolsonaro and the decisions of the social networks of Moraes to the rates that would later impose: “due in part to the insidious attacks of Brazil to the free elections, and the rights of freedom of expression of the Americans of Brazil, which recently, the Supreme Court of Brazilian, which has issued one hundred of the orders of social measures of the United States Orders of social measures of the United States.
Brazil, the fourth largest democracy in the world, exports popular products such as coffee, beef, oranges, airplanes, oil, iron and steel to the US executive order. UU. Trump excluded some products, including oranges, oil and fertilizers, but not coffee or beef.
Trump’s actions against Brazil have brought together the country’s opposite political sides to some extent.
A delegation that includes Bolsonaro supporters and a former member of the Opposition Cabinet of the Foreign Relations Committee and Defense of Brazil met this week this week with democratic members of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee and Republican Senator Thom Tillis to try to iron the dispute.
Brazil’s Foreign Minister also flew to Washington to meet with Rubio on Wednesday. And the United States Secretary of Commerce, Howard Lutnick, spoke by phone with his Brazilian counterpart, two of the Brazilian officials said to NBC News. They also said the call was not good.
Lula has not yet announced if Brazil will retaliate against US tariffs.
On Thursday, a panel of the United States Court of Appeals heard arguments about a challenge to Trump’s authority to impose tariffs on executive order presented by companies and a coalition of state general prosecutors. Rate opponents argue that the White House has not established that there is a national emergency to justify the Trump circumvention that, with some emergency exceptions, is supposed to be the authority of the Congress on tariffs.
Several of the judges in the panel pressed the lawyer of the Department of Justice that represented the Government on the right of the President to impose pronounced functions using an economic emergency law that does not specifically mention tariffs. No other president has tried to impose tariffs under the 1977 law that the Trump administration is citing. The case is expected to finally end in the Supreme Court.
