Motta indicates that reciprocity project against tariffs can be voted this week

The mayor, Hugo Motta (Republicans-PB), announced on Tuesday that he evaluates with bench leaders the possibility of bringing a project that provides for the reciprocity of commercial measures against Brazil to the vote in the plenary of the house later this week.

In a speech in the plenary as soon as he arrived in the House, Motta drew attention to the exceptionality of the subject in the face of tariffs that US President Donald Trump has imposed on sectors and products globally, and that have already reached Brazil.

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“We are already talking to the College of Leaders so that if possible, exceptionally, we can already bring the matter to the plenary later this week,” said the president.

The bill was approved on Tuesday morning on a terminative basis by the Senate Economic Affairs Commission and follows the House, which is awaiting its formal arrival.

“This episode between the United States and Brazil must definitely teach us that in the most important hours there is no left Brazil or a right -wing Brazil. There is only the Brazilian people. And we, representatives of the people, have to have the ability to defend the people above our differences,” said Motta.

Brazilian exports of gas and aluminum to the United States began to suffer additional tax last month. Trump also promises to announce on Wednesday reciprocal import rates that would reach all US business partners.

Also present at Tuesday’s session, the President of the Parliamentary Front of Agriculture (FPA), Deputy Pedro Lupion (PP-PR), suggested that the rapporteur of the proposal is in charge of Deputy Arnaldo Jardim (Cidadania-SP), Vice-President of FPA. Motta responded to Lupion that she already kept in touch with garden so that she is the rapporteur of the text.