Understand audience in the USA about 25% tariffs on Brazilian products

At least 40 Brazilian and American entities and companies signed up to participate in the session, which is expected to run until this Tuesday (7).

Among the Brazilian organizations accredited to present their arguments during the hearing are the National Confederation of Agriculture and Livestock of Brazil (CNA); the Brazilian Council of Coffee Exporters (Cecafé); the National Confederation of Industry (CNI); Union of the Sugarcane and Bioenergy Industry (Unica); National Confederation of Agriculture and Livestock of Brazil (CNA), Embraer, among others. Senator Flávio Bolsonaro is also among those registered to participate tomorrow. Established on July 15, 2025, the American analysis of “Brazilian acts, policies and practices” focuses on six aspects: digital commerce and electronic payment services; preferential tariffs; combating corruption; protection of intellectual property; access to the ethanol market and illegal deforestation.

Each participant will have up to five minutes to defend the arguments already presented to the USTR, for or against taxation. At the end of this time, representatives from the US office will be able to ask additional questions they deem necessary.

The USTR's investigation was proposed based on the so-called Section 301 of the United States Trade Law of 1974, which allows the US government to investigate commercial practices of other countries that it considers unfair or harmful to US interests. Notified in early June, the Brazilian State contested the arguments of those defending the tariffication of Brazilian exports and the USTR's preliminary conclusions. In a document sent to the office, Itamaraty argued that Brazilian commercial practices do not harm the US and US companies.

In the diplomatic statement, the Brazilian government asks the United States to refrain from imposing unilateral measures due to the ongoing investigation.

“The USTR does not establish the required legal nexus between a concrete act, policy or practice of Brazil and an identifiable burden or restriction on US trade”, maintains the Brazilian government, pointing out that the trade office's preliminary conclusions jump “from disagreement regarding Brazil's sovereign choices to conclusions that such choices are 'unreasonable'”, and “from generalized assertions of commercial disadvantage to the conclusion that US trade is being burdened or restricted”.

“This is insufficient to justify an action under Section 301”, adds the Brazilian government, claiming that US legislation does not authorize the USTR to impose trade measures “solely because it disagrees with the political choices of another sovereign country”.

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