Trump hits Brazil with 50% tariffs and sanctions judge in Bolsonaro case

特朗普对巴西实施50%关税,并对博尔索纳罗案中的法官实施制裁

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2025-07-31

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Donald Trump has stepped up his diplomatic assault on the government of Brazil's left- wing president, Luis Inacio Lula da Silva. He's signed an executive order which brings total tariffs on Brazilian goods to fifty percent. At the same time, the US Treasury has imposed financial sanctions on the senior Brazilian judge overseeing the criminal case for coup plotting against Brazil's former leader, Jair Bolsonaro. We speak to Brazilian ambassador to London, Antonio Patriota. Also, we speak to Yehuda Cohen - the father of an Israeli soldier taken hostage on October 7th -- who tells us he thinks the recognition of a Palestinian state will help pressure his government to get his son home. And the actor Stephen Fry on playing a formidable aristocratic woman in Oscar Wilde's most famous play, the Importance of Being Earnest. (Photo: President Trump and Brazilian then-President Bolsonaro at Mar-a-Lago in 2020. Credit: Getty Images)
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  • And we're going to begin today with a diplomatic crisis between the two biggest countries in the Americas by population and by the size of their economies,

  • the United States... and Brazil.

  • On Wednesday,

  • President Trump made good on his threat earlier this month to raise tariffs on imports from Brazil.

  • There are some exemptions, but from next week,

  • those bringing in goods such as coffee and beef will have to pay a whopping 50% tax on top of the value of the products.

  • In addition,

  • the US Treasury has announced sanctions on the Brazilian Supreme Court judge who's leading the investigation into whether the former President Jair Bolsonaro and his allies could aspired to carry out a coup after he lost the last election,

  • an investigation the White House described as politically motivated persecution.

  • Well, this is how the man who won that election, President Lula, reacted to the news.