While coup is judged, Washington receives pro and anti-sanctions

On the other hand, representatives of the National Confederation of Industry (CNI), the Federation of Industries of the State of São Paulo (FIESP) and the Confederation of Agriculture and Livestock of Brazil (CNA) are in the city. In addition, Itamaraty has reinforced paintings to monitor the situation in the American capital.

The business group will try to convince the Trump government authorities that it makes no sense to target Brazil, with whom the US supports a surplus of over a decade in the trade scale. According to CNI President Ricardo Alban, the group tries to resume the normality of 200 -year bilateral relations and obtain the opening of a trade negotiation, which has been locked so far, as the White House conditions conversations to the interruption of Bolsonaro’s trial. CNI did not disclose the agenda of its representatives in the capitol.

Today, the US commercial representative, USTR in the acronym in English, will hold a public hearing to hear stakeholders in relation to an investigation open by the agency, by Trump’s decision, for alleged unfair commerce practices in such large issues as electronic payment services, anti -corruption measures, intellectual property protection, ethanol market and illegal deforestation.

The process, known as Section 301, could create new fares about Brazil and would offer a more robust legal exit for the White House tariff measures, as last Friday, US court determined that the US president has no legal power to impose rates based on the law of international emergency economic powers, Ieeepa, he had been adopting to target more than a hundred countries, including Brazil.

According to Gabrielle Trebat, director for the Southern Cone of McLarty Associate Consulting and former Assistant Secretary for Commercial Affairs and Public Relations of the US Treasury Department, although the court decision does not mention the current fares against Brazil, the market understanding will also bar Trump 50% of Brazilian exports. “But no one should be very hopefully because it is clear that the Trump government will find another tool to impose these tariffs, including this section 301,” Trebat told the column.

For this reason, Brazilian entrepreneurs strive to expose their arguments against the team of ambassador Jamieson Greer, head of USTR. Among the demonstrations will, for example, are that of Embraer’s vice president of government relations in North America, Daniel Hickey, Mark Matos, executive director of the Brazilian Council of Coffee Exporters, as well as considerations by Ambassador Roberto Azevedo, former director general of the World Trade Organization (WTO), which will speak on behalf of CNI. In addition, entrepreneurs hope to be received at meetings at the US Congress and would hear the return of work done by consultancy lobbyists Ballard Partners, who were trying to unlock Brazilians’ dialogue with the US government.