President of Abrafrutas details the impossibility of sending mangoes to Americans with a 50% tariff on exports
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The surcharge on Brazilian exports imposed by United States President Donald Trump puts at risk 77 thousand tons of fruits that were destined for the North American market. According to the president of the Brazilian Association of Fruit and Derivative Exporting Producers (Abrafrutas), Guilherme Coelho, the case of mangoes is what most afflicts the sector. This is because out of every 100 containers exported with the fruit, 92 leave the São Francisco Valley region, the largest producing hub in the country. "In the United States, there is a harvest with several countries participating, so it is a compact harvest, lasting three months, during which we can send 2,500 containers, about 12 million boxes," he details. Coelho emphasizes that Mexico supplied the Americans with the tomy variety of mango during the months of May, June, and July. Following the natural course of the sector, it would then be Brazil's turn. "It is important to say that the mango harvest has not yet started, ...
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