Questions to resolve with the US go through ethanol and rare lands, says Simone Tebet
The Minister of Planning and Budget, Simone Tebet, said on Tuesday, 29, in an interview with GloboNewsthat the package of measures to face the 50% rate on Brazilian exports to the US, to take effect on Friday, 1, represents a “reaction”, not a “retaliation”.
THE Estadão/Broadcast It showed on Monday, 28, that the internal evaluation in the Planalto Palace is cautious about any action against the measure of the United States and the economic effects of a trade war between the two powers. Without quoting Brazil, US President Donald Trump said on Monday that tariffs with most countries will be within 15% to 20%.
For the minister, the Trump government is being “error induced” by lies of the Bolsonaro family, referring to the political burden of the announcement of the US president. “The Lula administration did not leave the conciliation table with the US because it could not sit at the table,” he said. “Trump still doesn’t want to talk to Brazil for a strategy.”
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The minister said she believed that the 50% surcharge imposed by the US to Brazil mainly targets Minister Alexandre de Moraes of the Supreme Court (STF), not President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva. “I think the issue is much more Alexandre de Moraes than President Lula,” he said. She assessed that Trump “united hunger with the desire to eat”, that is, the economic factor with the ideological question.
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Tebet also said that Lula “no problem” in calling Trump to negotiate the reversal of tariffs, but caution is needed. “President Lula has no problem taking the phone and calling, but it takes minimally from a starting point so that the ‘post’ call is not worse than it was,” said the minister.
“What is the starting point, which actually comes here, what effectively the US government wants from Brazil that Brazil has not yet been ready; what Brazil has to offer and has not yet been released,” said the minister in relation to the indefinite points in the relationship with Trump.
Tebet also mentioned that it is necessary to wait August 1 for any reaction, looking at two ways: if there will be extending the rate of tariff or if the US will decrease rates of specific sectors.
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She stated, however, that questions to be resolved with US go through ethanol and rare lands. “We are interested in the technology we do not have and foreign capital,” he said.
The transfer of technology between the two countries, in addition to expanding investments in the sector, is a agenda defended by entrepreneurs in this market in Brazil. The Lula government discusses launching a national policy aimed at attracting critical mineral investments before COP-30 in Belém (PA), according to the Estadão/Broadcast.
The segment is the target of interest to the United States amid the tariff negotiations imposed on Brazilian products by US President Donald Trump.
The minister explained that any agreement between Brazil and the US on critical minerals and rare lands would be within government -acceptable parameters, including attention to the environment. “We will not mine in the Amazon, we will not accept what does not meet the Brazilian rules,” he said. “Mining in Brazil requires that it is within our rules, with sustainability,” he added.
Government will have ready answers when US fare comes into force, says Tebet
Tebet said that before August 1, the government needs to prepare not for retaliation, but to defend Brazil’s sovereignty
The minister said Brazil has something to offer to the US, but “the doors are closed.”
Tebet stated that measures package to face the 50% fare on Brazilian exports to the US has a “less tax than expected” character.
All effort, according to the government, is to avoid the prohibitive rate expected to take effect on August 1. If the rate of 50%is effective, there are measures already being ventilated as a credit opening.
In addition, the actions defended by the industrial sector include the “Brazilian market protection” of products that are entering prices lower than the cost of production or prices practiced in the domestic market. That is, anti -dumping measures.
“We are able to help affected by 50% tariff for one to two years,” said the minister. She also said that there is great concern with the steel industry, as a possible surcharge beyond what had already been announced.
“The big question is what US want, what they still don’t have from Brazil, balance is surplus,” he said.
The minister also stated that democracy and sovereignty are non -negotiable values and will not be placed on the table with the US. “Lula leaves strengthened with defense of national sovereignty,” he said.
The minister also stated that it is unenforceable, in relation to Big Techs, the regulation of apology to crime. “The Supreme was very balanced in a decision about Big Techs,” he said.
