Brazil has two plans to exempt coffee from the tariff hike imposed by the USA

Brazilian coffee exporters have two plans to exempt the product from the tariff imposed by the United States. The idea is to exempt the coffee bean until a bilateral agreement is consolidated or to keep the commodity on the product-by-product exemption list, as per the executive order of September 5. The proposal was defended on Wednesday (22) by the executive board of the Brazilian Coffee Exporters' Council (Cecafé), represented by the executive director Marcos Matos and the technical director Eduardo Heron, during a meeting with the vice president and minister of Development, Industry, Trade and Services, Geraldo Alckmin, in Brasília (DF). According to Matos, in a statement, "regarding coffee, there are two lines of action: the product fits into the request for suspension of all tariffs for Brazilian products, while the bilateral trade agreement is concluded; or, if there is no such suspension, coffee will remain on the product-by-product exemption list, being included in annex ...