Tag: Brazil
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China’s formal request to join Brazil’s WTO challenge to Washington’s forced-labor tariffs has turned a bilateral complaint into a test of whether the multilateral trading system can still discipline unilateral trade measures at all. GENEVA, August 12, 2026, China has formally asked to join the World Trade Organization consultations that Brazil opened against the United…
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Brasilia rewrites the tariff fine print on hundreds of machines, chips and truck parts, betting that cheaper imported equipment can keep its reindustrialization drive on track while a 25 percent United States tariff squeezes its exporters from the outside. BRASILIA, August 10, 2026 Brazil’s foreign trade chamber has pushed through one of the broadest single-week…
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Brazil’s foreign trade chamber has eliminated import duties on dozens of technology products and rewritten tariff relief for hundreds of capital goods, auto parts and heavy vehicles, a package that takes effect August 13 as the country works to lower investment costs while absorbing a new 25 percent American tariff on its exports. BRASILIA, August…
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Brazil’s trade chamber unveils a sweeping August package that cuts or eliminates import duties on hundreds of capital goods and dozens of IT and telecom products, offering importers a partial reprieve after February’s steep tariff realignment. SAO PAULO, August 8, 2026. Brazil’s Executive Management Committee of the Chamber of Foreign Trade, known as Gecex, has…
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Brasilia renews its 21.6 percent anti-dumping duty on Chinese suspension PVC resin for up to five more years while the companion measure on South Korean resin stays terminated, cementing a split outcome in a trade defense case that has run for nearly two decades. BRASILIA, August 7, 2026 Brazil will keep its anti-dumping shield against…
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One week into the forced labor tariffs covering nearly every US trading partner, the first economic data and the first foreign backlash are arriving at once WASHINGTON, August 4, 2026. The United States has just completed its first full week collecting tariffs on imports from 60 economies under the most sweeping Section 301 action ever…
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Fresh reporting shows Chinese steel capital rerouting through Peru and Paraguay as Brazil’s 2026 anti-dumping wall, with duties of up to $709.63 per tonne, redraws Latin America’s steel map. BRASILIA, August 4, 2026 – Brazil’s decision to stack three anti-dumping measures on steel imports this year, aimed overwhelmingly at Chinese material, is now producing consequences…
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Brasilia escalates its tariff fight with Washington to Geneva, filing WTO dispute DS646 against a combined 37.5 percent duty stack on 6.6 billion dollars in exports and betting that a weakened multilateral system can still deliver leverage and legitimacy. Peacock Tariff Consulting | Trade News Desk BRASILIA, Aug. 3, 2026 (Peacock Tariff Consulting) Brazil has…
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Brazil brings the Mercosur-Singapore free trade agreement into force on August 1, securing immediate duty-free treatment for every Brazilian export line entering the city-state and giving the South American bloc its first trade pact with a Southeast Asian nation. BRASILIA, July 30, 2026: Brazil will implement the free trade agreement between the Southern Common Market,…
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Brazil activates the Mercosur-Singapore free trade agreement, securing immediate duty-free entry for 100 percent of its exports to the city-state and giving the South American bloc its first operational trade pact in Southeast Asia. BRASILIA, July 31, 2026. Brazil this week completed the final step to bring the Mercosur-Singapore Free Trade Agreement into force, capping…