from MicroWave@lemmy.world to world@lemmy.world on 15 Nov 22:46
https://lemmy.world/post/38850820
Brazilian Vice President Geraldo Alckmin said Saturday that Brazilian exported goods to the U.S. including coffee, beef and tropical fruits would still be tariffed 40%, despite Donald Trump’s decision to remove some import taxes.
In a dramatic move on Friday, Trump scrapped levies announced in April on what he called ‘Liberation Day’ in hopes of encouraging domestic production and lifting the U.S. economy. Brazil at the time was hit with a 10% tariff.
But in July, Trump imposed a further 40% tariff, citing — among other reasons — the trial of his ally, former President Jair Bolsonaro, which he called a “witch hunt.” Proceedings went ahead regardless and in September Bolsonaro was sentenced to 27 years and three months in prison for attempting a coup.
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Current Brazilian admin is lefty, that’s a no-no for far right USA
Aren’t they burning the rainforest though?
Check your sources again.
Wait, you legitimately believe there is no deforestation problem in the Amazon?
big farm is the real culprit. that’s not this admin’s washed hands though. they heavily defunded the promised environment ministry right at the start of his term, which was an indicator of the mood for the rest of the admin.
lula acts leftist in his international policy, but it’s a neoliberal coalition government inside the country. very conservative congress too. his VP was a dead giveaway even before lula was elected.
brazil is still very much under the thumb of international markets (imperialism) and capitalism.
This is all unfortunately very true. Which makes it extra bittersweet seeing Lula’s speeches at UN and other international spaces. How I wish the man seen there on international stage was the same when he reentered Brazil’s borders.
Cool, Americans barely consume any of those things
Ffs gotta be explicit these days: /s
(I’m a coffee addict, it’s been brutal)
2024 numbers for Brazil’s exports to the USA. tradingeconomics.com/brazil/…/united-states
$2B in coffee
$1.25B in vegetables and fruit
$1B in meat.
40% of $4,250,000,000 is $1,300,000,000
Check your math.
1.7bn, not 1.3
do use your own advice, please.
Coffee is up in price already, the tariffs must be brutal.
Like two dollars a pound in my area.
bought a years supply after November '24.
I’ve been rationing it and still have another 3-4 months left.
I just hope the bastard dies and the tariffs are resolved before I have to start roasting and grinding dandelions up.
Green coffee lasts longer, if you’re comfortable roasting.
Ya gotta be explicit because there’s too many Americans saying wild shit like this unironically lol
Someday sarcasm will become more apparent again in western online spaces. Far, far in the future…
Went to Dollar General for a few things, refused to pay for coffee. I’d rather do without.
Tbh I refuse to patronize dollar general, because they are an absolute cancer of a corporate entity (yes, I know how little that narrows it down, but their business model really is unbelievably caustic, in that it specifically preys upon socioeconomically depressed areas and actively makes them worse).
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DG is all we have in the country. It’s not like some mom-and-pop could provide that range of goods at those prices. There are DGs where there is nothing else, never was. I’m on the edge of town and a lot of these people have to walk or bike to the store. The new DG was a godsend.
At the town outside my camp, 900 souls, there’s a DG and a gas/convenience/general store coexisting, only two businesses. I spend what I can with the local store, get what I can’t at DG. The DG is the only real general store (hence the name) for 25-minutes in either direction.
Every criticism I’ve ever heard is from city people.
As a city person:
It’s not that I care about the personal impact that it has on me. It doesn’t affect me at all, to be blunt.
It may in fact be true that there are areas where there was nothing other than a DG (the company was founded in 1939, so it’s been around for a while), but in terms of the last few decades, it’s absolutely true that they’re undercutting an absolute shitload of local mom + pop general stores and driving them out of business, then exploiting their new captive audience and charging them more per unit mass/volume on everything. It’s literally their business model. That business model is predatory.
Anyways, if that’s not something that you can understand or admit, I don’t think any explanation from a random “city person” on the internet is going to convince you.
I’m waiting for a cheap synthetic coffe and cacao alternative. With all the progress in gene editing and whatnot, why don’t we have this already?
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Caffeine extract is available in powder form if that’s what you’re looking for
True caffeine addicts know that different forms hit different.
While I know rationally that the chemical is the same no matter the source, and I have studied the neural chemistry and could go on for hours about how adenosine and the neural transmitters work, I can also say with certainty that the caffeine buzz you get from tea feels a lot different than from coffee, which both feel a lot different from different brands of energy drinks and different from pills or shots.
Amazing, Brazil has no problem locking up their POS ex President for a coup, but I guess we can’t fucking do that here.
We are still at the phase of getting people mobilized and connected. If we want that to happen here we will need everybody who cares connected and doing in ervery way. Lots of people doing behind the scenes for the better, & to resist/undo the shit but more people doing will help alot.
Join your communities, and help others get active too. Piece by piece together
27 years babyyyyyy 🎉🥂
Man that’s his 4th “liberation day” this year. It’s as if your words don’t match your actions donny! You’re like a child who wanders in in the middle of a movie.
Americans are importing beef all the way from Brazil? Good god.