President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva stated, on Wednesday (5), that, in a possible taxation of the United States government to Brazilian products, will apply the principle of reciprocity. “It’s logical. The minimum decency that deserves a government is to use the reciprocity law, ”he said in an interview with radios in Minas Gerais.
US President Donald Trump has been promising to apply comprehensive tariffs to several countries with commercial surplus with the United States (sell more than they buy from Americans), such as the China and even closer partners like Mexico and Canada. Brazil is in the opposite situation, has a commercial deficit, bought more than it sold to Americans, and has not yet been taxed directly, but should Receive reflexes from the tariff war.
Lula recalled that the World Trade Organization (WTO) allows the taxation of up to 35% for any imported product. “For us, what would be important that the United States will lower the rate, and we lower the taxation. But if it, or any country, increases the tax rate for Brazil, we will use reciprocity, we will tax them too, ”he said.
“This is simple, it’s very democratic. There is no reason to try to put an ideological question in this. What I think is that the world needs peace, serenity, ”added the president, arguing that“ diplomacy will work again ”and that harmony between countries is restored.
For Lula, the United States is isolating themselves from the world, but also need good relationships with other countries. “No country, however important, can fight with everyone all the time,” he said, noting that the current government has opened 303 new markets for Brazilian products.
Bravado
In the interview with Itatiaia, Mundo Best and BandNewsFM BH radios from Minas Gerais, Lula also warned that there should be no concern with President Donald Trump’s “bravado”, as “no one can live bravata all his life.” “It is important that we start selecting the serious things so we can argue,” he said.
“There is a kind of politician who lives bravata. President Trump made his campaign like this. Now he has taken office and has announced [que pretende] Occupy Greenland, attach Canada, change Mexico’s Gulf name to America’s Gulf. And it has announced reoccuping the Panama Canal, ”added Lula.
Deportations
The Brazilian president also stated that the government will welcome citizens who are deported from the United States to Brazil. It is expected that, next Friday (7), a new flight with Brazilians to arrive in the country, coming from the US state of Louisiana to Fortaleza, Ceará.
“We are talking, with Itamaraty [Ministério das Relações Exteriores] And the Federal Police, so that we start having all this data there in Louisiana, where they board, so we can prepare to receive them here and make them arrive at their origin destination, ”said Lula In the interview.
“We are very attentive, the Federal Police, the Ministry of Justice, the Ministry of Human Rights and the Itamaraty, so that we give citizenship to these companions when they arrive in Brazil, including with medical assistance, to know if people have a problem health. And we will treat how to treat a human being, with great affection and respect, ”said the president.
Lula also explained that the Brazilian government deals with the situation as repatriation and non -deportation. “They are Brazilian companions and companions who went there looking for a better world, looking for luck, looking for a better job and could not legalize, were not accepted by the US government,” he added.
On January 24, a plane chartered by the US government landed in Manaus with 88 Brazilians deported. The citizens were handcuffed and reported abuse During the flight. The Federal Police then intervention, demanded the removal of the handcuffs, and President Lula determined that Brazilian Air Force transported people to the final destination, which was the Confins International Airportin the metropolitan region of Belo Horizonte.
Brazil has agreed with repatriation flights, since 2018, to shorten the time of its nationals in US detention centers, for irregular immigration and no possibility of appeal. Upon taking office in January this year, Donald Trump promised to intensify the deportations of foreign citizens who are irregular in the United States.
“We had contact with the most serious case, which was the plane that had a problem, in its pressurization. This plane stopped in Manaus, and then people were chained to get off the plane. And they wanted to take the chained people to Minas Gerais, ”said Lula.
“While they are on the plane in US territory, they are citizens who belong to the US politics and law, but when they arrive in the national territory, that the plane opens the door, they are subjected to Brazilian law and that we Let’s take care, ”said the president.
