U.S. President Donald Trump, left, meets with Brazil's President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva on the sidelines of the ASEAN Summit in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, Oct. 26, 2025. AP-Yonhap
WASHINGTON — The Trump administration has proposed a new punitive tariff of 25 percent on many imports from Brazil, after deciding its practices were unfair on a range of issues from digital trade to illegal deforestation, top trade official Jamieson Greer said on Monday.
The measures, under the Section 301 trade legislation, cover areas such as electronic payment services, preferential tariffs, intellectual property protection and ethanol market access as well, the Office of the United States Trade Representative said.
It proposed the new duties as it released the results of its unfair trade practices investigation into Brazil that started last year under Section 301 of the Trade Act of 1974.
But it excluded some items, such as beef, coffee, rare earths, other metals and aircraft parts from the new tariffs.
