Scheduled for this Wednesday (13), the meeting between Finance Minister Fernando Haddad and United States Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent was canceled. The information is from Minister Fernando Haddad, who attributed the cancellation to an articulation of the far-right US.
“The anti-deciplomatic militancy of these far right forces acting next to the White House was aware of my speech, acted with some advisers, and the virtual meeting that would be on Wednesday was unmarked,” the minister said in an interview with GloboNews on Monday (11).
Last week, Haddad had said that Bessent had sought him To discuss the tariff of the Donald Trump government About Brazilian products. The meeting would first take place through video conferencing and then would be extended to a face -to -face conversation.
“Secretary Bessent’s staff made contact with us yesterday [quarta-feira, 30] And finally, it will schedule a second conversation. The first, as I had advanced, was in May in California. There will now be a round of negotiations and we will bring to the American authorities our point of view, ”said Haddad on the last 31st.
Haddad said he was informed of the cancellation by e-mail“One or two days later” that the US Treasury Secretary himself reported the meeting to the press. The minister considers the motivation for non -economic political cancellation.
“They acted with some advisors to President Trump, and the meeting with him, who would be virtual on Wednesday, was unmarked and has not been rescheduled so far,” said Haddad. “They argued a lack of agenda. A very unusual situation. What is clear to us is that the commercial issue is not in focus,” he said.
The Minister of Finance recalled that Brazil is having different treatment compared to other countries and economic blocs that have managed to negotiate with the government of Donald Trump, such as the European Union, Japan and South Korea.
