The Brazilian government reaches fate “Liberation Day” In a climate croak With the possibility of escaping “A tariff” promised by President Donald Trump About entering foreign products in the United States.
The prevailing feeling between President Louise Insio Lula da Silva (PT), after tours of technical conversations with the counterparts of the American administration, is that There will be no relevant exceptions in Brazil.
“Liberation Day” is how Trump refers to April 2, when he intends to announce the application of “mutual tariff” in international trade. 17 hours (Brazilia) is scheduled to announce.
There is a widespread feeling in the government that it will be a victory, for example, if Trump’s artillery is against Brazil Ethanol. But almost no one, at the terrace of ministries, is believed to end at higher rates about biofuels.
In the talks so far, there has been a series of artistic arguments – without any American authority that has never indicated the possibility of excluding or cooling the measures to be applied.
When reading the Brazilian government, there were two signs of tampering with the application of “mutual tariff” by the United States.
First: The general advice opened by the USTR (Commercial Representation Office) ended with Flood is one of the cash notes of Brazil by the private sector.
One of the health barriers to subsidies in financing industry, through topics such as national content quotas for content and delay in the patent record, was the criticism of industry and agriculture in the United States is very strong.
On Monday (31), by publishing a 397 -page report on the commercial barriers faced by American producers worldwide, the USTR left Brazil as a seventh country and said that the Brazilian restrictions had an impact of $ 8 billion.
ITAMARTY, Mauricio Lerio, was in Washington last week, and he met the American authorities to strengthen the Brazilian arguments.
In a strategy to search for more allies, Lerio met with a member of the Republican Congress Jason Smith (Missouri), the head of the Roads and Melage Committee in the Chamber of Representatives-the strategic parliamentary position and ensures a dose of influencing the Trump administration.
This week, there was a new expectation of the phone between Chancellor Mauro Viewra and the head of USTR, Jamieson Greer, What is over does not happen.
It was a last opportunity to exceed except or cool the measures. However, in the government, there is a diagnosis that this conversation would change the situation a little or nothing.
Everything that goes forward, they claim Lula, and this depends on what is in the head of one person: Trump himself.
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