Trump administration proposes 25% tariffs on Brazil, citing "unreasonable'' trade practices

[Omaha Steve]

Source: AP

By PAUL WISEMAN
Updated 10:37 AM CDT, June 2, 2026
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WASHINGTON (AP) — The Trump administration proposed 25% tariffs on imports from Brazil, charging that the world’s 10th-biggest economy engages in trade practices that are “unreasonable’’ and that “burden or restrict U.S. commerce.’’

The announcement late Monday came after an investigation by the Office of the U.S. Trade Representative, charging Brazil with lax anti-corruption enforcement and unfair tariffs of its own, among other things.

U.S Trade Representative Jamieson Greer said that he and President Donald Trump had had “constructive’’ meetings with President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva and other Brazilian officials. But he said that “we continue to have substantial differences in resolving the issues identified in this investigation.’’

Greer’s office has scheduled a public hearing July 6 on the proposed tariffs.

Read more: https://apnews.com/article/brazil-trump-tariffs-trade-3f389d69e8706d773ed19eb4de6a4726

[DonCoquixote]

1. just great Trump (sarcasm)

Go ahead and push Brazil into the wafting arms of their fellow BRICS

[AZJonnie]

2. Mango Mussolini is just completely flailing at this point

Just lashing out indiscriminately and ineffectively to try to make it sound like he's doing something semi-useful apart from golfing, planning his stupid ballroom and arch, and rage-tweeting all hours of the night.

His family should have stepped in long ago.

[surfered]

3. Uh, maybe I missed something,

But didn’t the Supreme Court rule Trump’s previous tariffs exceeded the powers given to the president by Congress under a 1977 law providing him the authority to regulate commerce during national emergencies created by foreign threats?

[Old Crank]

5. Different section of trade law

He is pointing to specific issues with goods from Brazil. Not just slap a tariff onanything and everything.
Now the article didn't mention just what those were. I guess that is what the hearing later is about. The article did say it wasn't going to be on aircraft parts. and some other stuff.
Just not, as far as I could discern, what was going to be tariffed.
We also have a trade surplus with Brazil.

[surfered]

8. Thank you for that.

[RockRaven]

4. "Unreasonable" being "selling soybeans to China, who stopped buying US ones b/c of my dumb tariffs/trade war"

[BettyBlueDot]

6. There go our coffee prices again AND our historic love of Brazil, our ally

USA gets 80 percent of its unroasted coffee from Latin America, with Brazil being the largest supplier, accounting for 35 percent of those imports. And ...... although born in Portugal, Carmen Miranda grew up in Brazil, hence "The Bombshell From Brazil" poor lady rolling in her grave to see what has become of her beloved ties to USA. Invited to sing for FDR, and In 1941, she was the first Latin American star to be invited to leave her handprints and footprints in the courtyard of Grauman's Chinese Theatre and was the first South American honored with a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. We hang our heads in shame at what the vile felon, grifting, tax-evading, fraud man-baby continues to destroy, over and over ....... and over

[Karasu]

7. AGAIN with the fucking tariffs? He must be especially bored today.

[Aussie105]

9. The good news and the bad news.

Brazilian coffee going up?

The bad news - Trumpmanistan inhabitants pay more.

The good news - other countries will get it cheaper as Brazil seeks out other markets.

[Old Crank]

10. I read today that he wants Brazil to scrap their

electronic payment system. Pix.

It was launched by the Central Bank of Brazil and has changed how the country does transactions. It operated in real time and settles transactionsin under 10 seconds. It has surpased credit and debit cards and is now th country's most prefered payment system.

Users don't need bank details. They use a Pix key.
Transactions are free to individuals. Fees average 0.22% for merchants. Much cheaper than traditional credit cards.
81% of the adult population uses it and it has integrated 70 million unbanked citizens.

This is the reason it has drawn scutiny from other governments.

They have cut out the big international banksters so they are trying to kill it of trim it back.