Minister says he believes U.S. tariffs on meats, fruits, and coffee will soon fall

The Minister of Agrarian Development, Paulo Teixeira, emphasized that the White House backed down on Wednesday, the 10th, regarding the 10% tariff imposed on Brazilian cellulose, and said he believes that the tariffs imposed by the United States on meats, fruits, and coffee will be the next to fall. "The Americans can't stand to pay the price they are paying. And they are only paying a higher price because of the tariffs. I repeat here, Brazil supplies the best products at the cheapest prices and the American was paying a very good price, but the tariff made these products more expensive there and they keep buying," he said. Following this, Teixeira associated the tariffs imposed by the U.S. government with the trial of the former president of the Republic, Jair Bolsonaro, and said he hopes that "economic rationality" will return after the end of the sessions in the 1st Panel of the Supreme Federal Court (STF), scheduled to occur on Friday, the 12th. Teixeira also stated that the ...