Trump threatens Brazil with 50% tariff over Bolsonaro trial

US President Donald Trump said he plans to put 50% tax on goods in Brazil and plans to increase his struggle with the South American country.

The plan, who shared the social media, accused Brazil of “attacks” to US technology companies, and trying to overthrow the 2022 elections, faced with prosecution of the former right -right President Jair Bolsonaro against the “witch hunt” announced.

Trump had already shone with Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula Da Silva on the hearing of Bolsonaro at the beginning of this week.

At that time, President Lula said that Brazil would not accept “intervention” from anyone and “no one is above the law”.

He also said Trump was “irresponsible” to threaten tariffs on social media.

Trump published 22 letters around the world this week, including trade partners such as Japan, South Korea and Sri Lanka, and said it would come into force on August 1st.

The movements largely served to revive the plans he put forward in April, but financial markets were waiting after returning to measures.

However, the message to Brazil was a much more targeted miracle and threatened a significant increase from the Tax on the White House’s previously announced taxes from the country.

Unlike many other countries, the US experienced a trade surplus with Brazil last year and sold more goods than it bought in the country.

In the letter, Trump described the “50% of the current regime to correct the grave injustices of the current regime as” required “.

Trump and Bolsonaro established a friendly relationship when the presidency overlaps, and in 2019, in the first period of Trump, he held a double meeting at the White House.

Both men later lost their presidential elections and both refused to openly accept the defeat. Bolsonaro refused to join any plan against Lula.

Trump’s social media company Trump Media is among the US technology companies that fight the decisions of the Brazilian court on orders that suspend social media accounts.

Last month, the Supreme Court of Brazil decided that social media companies could be held responsible for the content on their platforms.

Trump’s letter on Wednesday, the US trade representative will ordered Brazil to launch 301 investigations on digital trade practices, he said.

Such a movement would turn into a more pronounced legal process that the US used to apply tariffs to the past and hardens the threat. In the first period, Trump took a similar step considering a tax targeting the country’s technology companies.