Trump threatens Brazil with 50% tariffs

特朗普威胁巴西实施50%的关税

World Business Report

2025-07-11

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U.S. President Donald Trump is threatening to put a 50% tariff on Brazilian imports. Brazil says it will retaliate with a 50% tariff of his own. So what does this escalating trade row mean for Embraer—one of the world’s biggest aircraft manufacturers based in Brazil? And could it make your morning cup of coffee more expensive? Italian chocolate giant Ferrero is buying one of America's oldest breakfast cereal companies, Kellogg's in a $3.1 billion deal. But are people still eating cereals for breakfast? Plus, how are data centres affecting your water supply?
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  • Hello and welcome to World Business Report from the BBC World Service.

  • I'm Roger Hearing and on this edition,

  • Brazil threatens equal tariffs in retaliation to Donald Trump's threat of 50% import taxes.

  • What will it mean for the two key Brazilian exports, coffee and airplanes?

  • Also today,

  • the US breakfast cereal giant Kellogg's is taken over by the Italian chocolate company Ferrero.

  • What will that mean?

  • And we look at the environmental impact of huge data centers in Georgia.

  • But first Brazil is a country that's had a trade deficit with the United States its imports from America are worth more than its exports to America But on Wednesday Washington announced hefty 50% tariffs on Brazilian imports and Brazil's president Lula now says he will respond in kind with similar tariffs on US imports

  • if the new tariffs go into effect as planned on August the 1st Lula's chief advisor for foreign policy,

  • ambassador Celso Amorim,