Trump's Tariff Could Affect Over 500,000 Brazilian Beekeepers, Says ApexBrasil

The 50% taxation of Brazilian products announced by U.S. President Donald Trump could affect more than 500,000 Brazilian beekeepers, estimates the Brazilian Agency for Export Promotion and Investments (ApexBrasil). According to the president of the Brazilian Honey Exporters Association (Abemel), Renato Azevedo, currently, 80% of Brazil's honey exports are destined for the United States. "We are totally dependent on this market. In the short term, we need to negotiate and have an extension of time. In the medium and long term, we need to diversify markets by promoting Brazilian honey in other countries," Azevedo stated. For Azevedo, it is necessary to develop a plan to reduce dependence on the United States and seek to insert the product into the European Union, for example, and in other markets. Wellington Dantas, executive director of the Central of Beekeeping Cooperatives of the Brazilian Semiarid (Casa Apis), also advocates that the sector find alternatives. "Given the ...