In the United States, customs agents began to impose fees on one -sided fare from 10 % of President Donald Trump on all imports in many countries on Saturday (5). Brazil is among the affected.
The highest rates that will affect the products will start from 57 major commercial partners in the United States next week.
The preliminary taxes of 10 % entered into force in the sea ports, American airports and warehouses at 00H01 at the time of the eastern coast of the United States (at 1 am in the morning Brazilian time), which represents Trump’s complete rejection of the post -war -agreed graph system.
“This is the largest business in our lives,” said Kelly Ann Show, a commercial lawyer for Hogan Luvils and a former White House commercial consultant during Trump’s first term.
Show said at the Brookings Institute event on Thursday that she expects tariffs to develop over time as countries seek to negotiate lower prices. “But this is huge. This is a very seismic change It is important in the way we negotiate with all countries of the earth. “
The Trump advertisement announced last Wednesday (2) that global stock markets depth, which led to the elimination of the market value of $ 5 trillion for S&P 500 companies until a record of record on Friday.
Petroleum prices and commodities decreased, while investors fled the security of government bonds.
Among the first countries The rate of 10 % is affected by Brazil, Australia, UK, Colombia, Argentina, Egypt and Saudi Arabia. Customs and US Border Protection Bulletin (CBP) indicates that there are no shortages of water allowing water in the middle of the night on Saturday.
But the CBP newsletter provided a 51 -day grace period for ships or aircraft loads and traffic to the United States before midnight. These loads need to reach 00H01, on the eastern coast of the United States (1H01, Brazilia timing) on May 27 to avoid a 10 % average.
At the same time, on Wednesday (9), it is expected that the highest “mutual” tariffs will enter Trump from 11 % to 50 %.
Imports from the European Union will be hit with a 20 % tariff, while Chinese products will be accessed With a rate of 34 %, raising the total new Trump rates on China to 54 %.
Vietnam, which has benefited from changing US supply chains away from China after Trump’s first state with Beijing, will strike a 46 % tariff and agreed on Friday to discuss an agreement with Trump.
Canada and Mexico were exempt from the latest Trump rates because it was still undergoing a 25 % tariff related to the United States in the United States for products that do not meet the rules of the United States-Mixico-Canada.
Trump is excluded from the definitions Products subject to a 25 % separate national security tax, including steel, aluminum, cars, trucks and spare parts.
The Republican government also issued a list of more than 1,000 category of products exempt from customs tariffs.
At a value of $ 645 billion of imports in 2024, it includes total oil, oil products and other energy imports, pharmaceutical products, uranium, oitterium, wood, semiconductors and copper. With the exception of energy, the Trump administration in many of these sectors has achieved new national security prices.