Tag: Brazil

  • EU Halts Brazil

    Brasilia threatens reciprocal measures and leans on a favorable audit as the European Union’s suspension of Brazilian beef, poultry, eggs and honey enters its second week, putting up to 2 billion dollars in annual trade at risk. BRASILIA, Sept. 14, 2026 The most consequential trade rupture between the European Union and Latin America this year…

  • Beef Ban Rift

    Brazil weighs retaliation and a WTO challenge as the EU’s antimicrobial suspension of beef, poultry, eggs and honey enters its second week, straining a Mercosur trade pact that is barely four months old. BRASILIA, September 12, 2026. Ten days into the European Union’s suspension of Brazilian beef, poultry, eggs and honey, the two sides remain…

  • EU Beef Ban

    Brussels has cut off Brazilian beef, poultry, egg and honey imports over antibiotic standards just as Mercosur’s own beef producers remain locked in a bitter fight over how to divide their shared European quota. BRASILIA, September 11, 2026 A week after the European Union formally suspended imports of Brazilian beef, poultry, eggs and honey, the…

  • EU Beef Freeze

    Brussels reviews Brazil’s poultry and honey guarantees this week while beef documentation remains outstanding, straining a Mercosur partnership barely eight months old BRUSSELS, September 10, 2026 One week after the European Union shut its doors to Brazilian beef, poultry, eggs and honey, the standoff between Brussels and Brasilia has entered a decisive new phase. European…

  • Brazil Duty Mix

    Brasilia rewrites its tariff schedule on two fronts at once: a midnight deadline decides whether the 20 percent tax on small e-commerce parcels returns, while Gecex retools duties on hundreds of capital goods and opens a new anti-dumping front against China BRASILIA, September 8, 2026 Brazil’s trade policy reached an unusually consequential crossroads this week,…

  • Brazil Recasts

    Brasilia rewrites duty relief for 491 capital goods, zeroes tariffs on 34 IT and telecom products, and reshuffles its truck and farm machinery lists in a single September package, sharpening a year-long recalibration of the ex-tarifário regime that global equipment suppliers can no longer afford to ignore. BRASILIA, September 7, 2026 Brazil’s foreign trade authorities…

  • Glass War Opens

    Brazil launches an anti-dumping investigation into Chinese tempered glass for stoves, ovens, washers and dishwashers, the latest in a string of 2026 trade-defence actions that test Brasilia’s balancing act between its biggest trading partner and its own factories. BRASILIA, September 5, 2026 Brazil’s Foreign Trade Secretariat has opened a formal anti-dumping investigation into imports of…

  • Brazil Duty Cut

    Brasilia’s foreign trade chamber has rolled out a fresh package of import duty relief covering nearly 500 capital goods, dozens of IT and telecom products, and a reworked exemption list for trucks, trailers, and farm machinery, extending a year of rapid-fire tariff engineering aimed at cutting the cost of industrial modernization. BRASILIA, September 4, 2026…

  • Beef Quota Move

    Trump opens a 300,000 metric ton duty free window for imported lean beef, handing Brazil and Paraguay a windfall while American ranchers cry foul WASHINGTON, Aug. 29, 2026. President Donald Trump this week signed a proclamation that temporarily lifts the steep out-of-quota tariff on up to 300,000 metric tons of imported lean beef trimmings, the…

  • Brazil Opens Up

    New zero-duty import quotas take effect in Brasilia as the Gecex trade chamber extends a busy season of selective liberalization, even as steel protection tightens BRASILIA, August 29, 2026 Brazil’s newest import tariff-rate quotas entered into force on August 28, opening a one year window of reduced-duty access for three products under a decision published…