Tag: MERCOSUR

  • 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 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…

  • Mercosur Limbo

    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…

  • Brazil PU Hike

    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…

  • Brazil Eases Up

    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…

  • Mercosur Pivot

    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,…

  • Asia Door Opens

    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…

  • Brazil Steel Up

    GECEX Resolution 941 lifts import duties on seven wire, fencing and construction steel lines to a flat 25 percent for twelve months BRASILIA, July 28, 2026 – Brazil has tightened the screws on steel imports once again. On 23 July the Executive Management Committee of the Foreign Trade Chamber, known as GECEX/Camex, adopted Resolution No.…

  • Lula’s WTO Bet

    Brazil answers Washington’s 25 percent Section 301 tariff with legal patience instead of counter-tariffs, staking its export economy on a Geneva dispute system the United States itself has spent years hobbling. BRASILIA, July 26, 2026 Brazil spent this weekend doing something almost no major economy has managed in the current round of tariff wars: holding…

  • Brazil Squeeze

    Two American tariff actions in a single week have pushed duties on many Brazilian goods to 37.5 percent, as Brasilia weighs its Reciprocity Law, a WTO challenge and the limits of strategic patience. By the US Trade Desk | Peacock Tariff Consulting WASHINGTON, July 26, 2026 No major American trading partner absorbed a harder blow…