Brazil offers $5 billion for companies hit by tariffs

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  Hello and welcome to Business Matters.

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  I'm Liana Byrne.

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  On the program today, Brazil's president unveils a sweeping plan to help exporters hit by tariffs.

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  But will it work?

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  We spoke here in Brazil with mango producers that said that tons of the fruit would likely go raw

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  because they wouldn't be able to export it.

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  Meat exporters are estimating a billion dollars in losses until the end of the year.

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  And why more companies are telling workers to take their shoes off in the office?

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  If the secretary is signaling that all of that would be in play,

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  if there were sufficient revenues attached to the Treasury,

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  then that would be wholesale change to how the expert controls work.

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  Now,

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  he did seem to suggest that there would still be some red lines not to be crossed based on national security grounds.

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  So that clip was actually about a controversial White House deal with US chip giants NVIDIA and AMD that could soon be golled out to other industries.

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  Now here is why more companies are telling workers to take their shoes off in the office.

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  We just make sure that people are comfortable in the office environment.

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  And then so we do not do this to make them a distractor or anything like that.

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  This in fact helps them just relax and they can just focus on what they are working on.

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  It sounds nice.

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  What do you think of that?

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