Tag: Brazil
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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The Eurasian Economic Union has opened an anti-dumping investigation into Chinese citric acid, reviving a trade defense fight it abandoned years ago and adding a second front to the pressure Beijing’s dominant acidulant industry already faces in Europe. MOSCOW, August 28, 2026 The Eurasian Economic Union has launched a formal anti-dumping investigation into imports of…
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Four months into provisional tariff cuts, the EU-Mercosur pact is moving real goods across the Atlantic while its legal fate rests with judges in Luxembourg. BRUSSELS, August 25, 2026 The EU-Mercosur trade relationship enters the final week of August in a condition that has no clean precedent in modern trade policy: tariffs are falling, quotas…
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An 80-minute phone call between Presidents Lula and Trump revives stalled negotiations over the 25 percent Section 301 tariff and the 12.5 percent forced-labor duty squeezing Brazilian exports to the United States WASHINGTON, Aug. 23, 2026 The United States and Brazil agreed on Friday to restart negotiations over the tariffs Washington imposed on Brazilian goods…
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White House opens a 300,000 tonne duty-free window on ground beef as cattle numbers hit a 56-year low, handing importers a narrow and legally unusual opening WASHINGTON, Aug. 22, 2026 President Donald Trump said on Friday that the United States will waive out-of-quota tariffs on as much as 300,000 metric tons of imported ground beef…
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Brasilia’s tariff on imported polyurethanes jumps from 14 to 20 percent as a new GECEX resolution takes effect, squeezing suppliers from Europe, Asia and beyond SAO PAULO, August 19, 2026 A significant increase in Brazil’s import tariff on certain polyurethanes entered into force on Monday, August 17, raising the duty from 14 percent to 20…
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Brazil activates its Economic Reciprocity Law for the first time, opening a formal Camex procedure that could lead to countermeasures against 25 percent US tariffs even as Brasilia insists the door to negotiation remains open. BRASILIA, August 16, 2026 Brazil set in motion the most consequential trade defense mechanism in its modern history on Thursday,…