Brazil’s Vice President Geraldo Alckmin says Brazilian goods like coffee, beef and tropical fruits will still face a 40% tariff in the U.S.

Brazilian Vice President Geraldo Alckmin said Saturday that Brazilian exported goods to the U.S. including coffee, beef and tropical fruits would still be tariffed 40%, despite Donald Trump’s decision to remove some import taxes.

In a dramatic move on Friday, Trump scrapped levies announced in April on what he called ‘Liberation Day’ in hopes of encouraging domestic production and lifting the U.S. economy. Brazil at the time was hit with a 10% tariff.

But in July, Trump imposed a further 40% tariff, citing — among other reasons — the trial of his ally, former President Jair Bolsonaro, which he called a “witch hunt.” Proceedings went ahead regardless and in September Bolsonaro was sentenced to 27 years and three months in prison for attempting a coup.

  • gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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    2 days ago

    Tbh I refuse to patronize dollar general, because they are an absolute cancer of a corporate entity (yes, I know how little that narrows it down, but their business model really is unbelievably caustic, in that it specifically preys upon socioeconomically depressed areas and actively makes them worse).

    • shalafi@lemmy.worldEnglish
      2·
      19 hours ago

      DG is all we have in the country. It’s not like some mom-and-pop could provide that range of goods at those prices. There are DGs where there is nothing else, never was. I’m on the edge of town and a lot of these people have to walk or bike to the store. The new DG was a godsend.

      At the town outside my camp, 900 souls, there’s a DG and a gas/convenience/general store coexisting, only two businesses. I spend what I can with the local store, get what I can’t at DG. The DG is the only real general store (hence the name) for 25-minutes in either direction.

      Every criticism I’ve ever heard is from city people.

      • gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        1·
        4 hours ago

        As a city person:

        It’s not that I care about the personal impact that it has on me. It doesn’t affect me at all, to be blunt.

        It may in fact be true that there are areas where there was nothing other than a DG (the company was founded in 1939, so it’s been around for a while), but in terms of the last few decades, it’s absolutely true that they’re undercutting an absolute shitload of local mom + pop general stores and driving them out of business, then exploiting their new captive audience and charging them more per unit mass/volume on everything. It’s literally their business model. That business model is predatory.

        Anyways, if that’s not something that you can understand or admit, I don’t think any explanation from a random “city person” on the internet is going to convince you.