{"id":680610,"date":"2026-06-02T21:57:19","date_gmt":"2026-06-02T21:57:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/680610\/"},"modified":"2026-06-02T21:57:19","modified_gmt":"2026-06-02T21:57:19","slug":"trump-administration-pushes-for-25-tariff-on-brazil-after-us-supreme-court-shot-down-last-attempt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/680610\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump administration pushes for 25% tariff on Brazil after US Supreme Court shot down last attempt"},"content":{"rendered":"

WASHINGTON (AP) \u2014 The Trump administration proposed 25% tariffs on imports from Brazil<\/a>, charging that the world\u2019s 10th-biggest economy engages in trade practices that are \u201cunreasonable\u2019\u2019 and that \u201cburden or restrict U.S. commerce.\u2019\u2019<\/p>\n

Brazil\u2019s President Luiz In\u00e1cio Lula da Silva said he received the decision \u201cwith indignation.\u201d He also blamed the decision by the U.S. administration on his rival in October\u2019s elections, Sen. Fl\u00e1vio Bolsonaro, who visited Washington last week. The senator is the son of former President Jair Bolsonaro, once nicknamed \u201cthe Trump of the Tropics\u201d by his allies.<\/p>\n

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

The U.S. has had a goods trade surplus with Brazil for years. <\/p>\n

U.S Trade Representative Jamieson Greer said that he and President Donald Trump had \u201cconstructive\u2019\u2019 meetings with Lula and other Brazilian officials. But he said that \u201cwe continue to have substantial differences in resolving the issues identified in this investigation.\u2019\u2019<\/p>\n

Lula on Tuesday cited other reasons for the punishing tariff proposal. For the first time he named an American official as a hurdle to his relations with Trump and once again he threatened to retaliate<\/a>. <\/p>\n

\u201cI spoke to President Trump for three hours, and that Marco Rubio guy, the head of the State Department, he is anti-Latin American,\u201d Lula said. \u201cHe is a deadly enemy of Cuba, a deadly enemy of many Latin American countries. I already told Trump that he does not like Brazil.\u201d<\/p>\n

The U.S. State Department did not immediately respond a request for comment from The Associated Press on Tuesday.<\/p>\n

Brazil\u2019s government said in a statement that its dialogue with American counterparts, which includes \u201cpersonal involvement of Presidents Lula and Trump,\u201d is being \u201dsabotaged by merely electoral and family matters\u201d of the Bolsonaros. <\/p>\n

It added that it hopes \u201cthe recommendations do not become effective tariffs.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cBut we stress we will adopt every measure that is capable of reducing the damage that might be caused to the national economy, to the jobs and the income of Brazilians,\u201d the country\u2019s government said.<\/p>\n

Last year, Trump had slapped Brazil with a 50% tariff, mainly to protest its prosecution of Jair Bolsonaro<\/a> for trying to overturn his electoral defeat in 2022. Trump\u2019s relationship with Lula seemed to have improved early May, when the Brazilian visited the White House.<\/p>\n

But last week, the Trump administration designated two Brazilian gangs as terrorist organizations<\/a>, after Sen. Bolsonaro\u2019s visit. Lula opposes the designation, which analysts say could bolster his political rival.<\/p>\n

Sen. Bolsonaro published in his social media channels a statement he said he sent to Rubio, in which he criticizes the potential new tariff hike for it would cause \u201cserious damages to the Brazilian people \u2014 precisely the citizens that see the United States as a partner and a friend.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cI am writing to formally repeat the request I did to you in person, that the U.S. do not impose tariffs on Brazil,\u201d Sen. Bolsonaro said.<\/p>\n

Greer\u2019s office has scheduled a public hearing July 6 on the proposed tariffs.<\/p>\n

Trade lawyer Ryan Majerus, a partner at King & Spalding, noted said that the administration\u2019s plan excludes more than half of U.S. imports from Brazil, including aircraft and key minerals.<\/p>\n

The Trump administration invoked Section 301<\/a> of the Trade Act of 1974 to launch the investigation into Brazil\u2019s trade practices.<\/p>\n

Sen. Bolsonaro travelled to meet officials in Washington last week in the wake of a scandal at home in which he admitted receiving funds from a disgraced banker<\/a>. Another son, former lawmaker Eduardo Bolsonaro, was also present.<\/p>\n

On Tuesday, Trump posted a photo of the Bolsonaros in the Oval office on his social media site. <\/p>\n

\u201cThese sons of Bolsonaro can be worse than him. They are actually sellouts of our country, they went there to ask a foreign nation to meddle in Brazilian affairs,\u201d Lula said in a speech to residents of the city of Catalao, south of capital Brasilia. \u201cThey are traitors.\u201d<\/p>\n

The U.S. Supreme Court ruled in February that Trump overstepped his authority<\/a> by using a different law \u2013 the International Emergency Economic Powers Act (IEEPA) of 1977 \u2013 to impose sweeping tariffs on U.S. trading partners, including Brazil.<\/p>\n

However, Section 301 tariffs have survived legal challenges, and the administration is likely to use that authority to impose other tariffs and to recoup some of the tax revenue lost when the Supreme Court rejected the IEEPA tariffs.<\/p>\n

Brazil\u2019s president said that during his visit to Washington early May, he handed Trump documents showing that the U.S. has a trade surplus with Brazil.<\/p>\n

Documents published by the U.S. Trade Representative show that last year, U.S. exports to Brazil rose nearly 11% to $54.4 billion. Brazilian exports to the U.S. fell 5.7% to $39.9 billion, meaning the U.S. had a trade surplus of more than $14 billion. <\/p>\n

The trade imbalance for services is more lopsided in favor of the U.S., with services exports in 2024 reaching $29.6 billion, quadruple the Brazilian services exports to the U.S. <\/p>\n

\u201cI am not going to cry about it,\u201d Lula said. \u201cIf they (the U.S.) don\u2019t want to buy from us, we will sell to someone else.\u201d<\/p>\n

China has been Brazil\u2019s biggest trading partner for about a decade.<\/p>\n

____<\/p>\n

Mauricio Savarese reported from Sao Paulo.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"WASHINGTON (AP) \u2014 The Trump administration proposed 25% tariffs on imports from Brazil, charging that the world\u2019s 10th-biggest…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":680611,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[23,941,19426,28,14271,12,19425,793,3139,2561,3140,19424,643,296509,3,111,77077,18598,8879,795,21,792,19,22,20,25,24,965],"class_list":["post-680610","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-states","tag-america","tag-brazil","tag-brazil-government","tag-business","tag-central-america","tag-donald-trump","tag-eduardo-bolsonaro","tag-general-news","tag-international-trade","tag-jair-bolsonaro","tag-latin-america","tag-luiz-incio-lula-da-silva","tag-marco-rubio","tag-mauricio-savarese","tag-news","tag-politics","tag-ryan-majerus","tag-south-america","tag-tariffs-and-global-trade","tag-u-s-news","tag-united-states","tag-united-states-government","tag-united-states-of-america","tag-unitedstates","tag-unitedstatesofamerica","tag-us","tag-usa","tag-world-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/680610","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=680610"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/680610\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/680611"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=680610"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=680610"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=680610"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}