Trump administration proposes 25% tariffs on Brazil despite US trade surplus
by Associated Press from World news | The Guardian on (#761SC)
US claims world's 10th-biggest economy engages in unreasonable' trade practices that restrict US commerce'
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 US commerce".
Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva said he received the decision with indignation". The Brazil president also blamed the decision by the US administration on his rival in October's elections, Flavio Bolsonaro, the senator who visited Washington last week. The senator is the son of former president Jair Bolsonaro, once nicknamed the Trump of the Tropics" by his allies.
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