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US President Donald Trump speaks during a multilateral luncheon with visiting African Leaders successful the State Dining Room of the White House successful Washington, DC, connected July 9, 2025.
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President Donald Trump said Wednesday the U.S. volition slap a 50% tariff connected Brazil's imports, partially successful retaliation for the ongoing prosecution of the country's erstwhile president, Jair Bolsonaro.
Trump said successful a missive that the caller tariff — a monolithic leap from the 10% complaint the U.S. imposed connected Brazil successful aboriginal April — was besides spurred by the "very unfair commercialized relationship" betwixt the 2 countries.
Trump claimed that Brazil's commercialized policies person caused "unsustainable Trade Deficits against the United States," which endanger the U.S. system and nationalist security.
But the U.S. has a goods commercialized surplus with Brazil, which totaled $7.4 cardinal successful 2024, according to the Office of the U.S. Trade Representative.
The U.S. is besides launching an probe into imaginable unfair commercialized practices by Brazil, Trump said successful a missive to Brazil's existent president, Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva.
The probe is based connected "Brazil's continued attacks connected the Digital Trade activities of American Companies," Trump wrote successful the letter, which helium shared publically successful a Truth Social post.
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