A report from the USTR, the White House's foreign trade agency, has begun to include criticism of Brazilian measures such as Pix, proposed social media regulation, and the so-called "little blouses tax" among the obstacles to U.S. interests in international trade. These points add to recurring complaints made by Washington about the delay in granting patents, failures in intellectual property protection, tariffs on imported ethanol, sanitary restrictions on American pork, and the requirement of quotas for national audiovisual productions. The chapter dedicated to Brazil occupies eight pages of the document and reinforces questions already raised in the Section 301, an investigation conducted by the USTR itself that is in its final phase and may result in the application of specific tariffs against Brazilian products. Among the highlighted points, the report mentions the collection of a linear tax of 60% on international orders processed by the simplified regime, with an annual ...