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2026-07-16 11:22:12
[US Imposes 25% Tariff on Some Brazilian Goods, Exempts Beef and Coffee] (1) The Office of the United States Trade Representative (USTR) imposed a 25% tariff on some Brazilian goods under Section 301 of the Trade Act of 1974, a final action based on a year-long investigation. (2) The investigation found that Brazil had engaged in “unreasonable practices” in areas such as digital trade and electronic payments, unfair preferential tariffs, anti-corruption enforcement intervention, intellectual property protection, ethanol market access, and illegal deforestation, which burdened or restricted U.S. business activities. (3) Trade Representative Greer stated that despite a year of extensive negotiations between the U.S. and Brazil, the issues remain unresolved; the U.S. remains willing to continue negotiations to address these long-standing issues. Meanwhile, the U.S. will exempt Brazilian beef and coffee from the new tariffs.
