Brazil: importing from USA has higher taxes now

Zepper · Post by **Zepper** » Mon Mar 08, 2010 2:29 pm

Here's a link to the subject, portuguese only. It shows that the import taxes have been increased.

- Examples:

sunglasses had 20%, now has 40%. ^_^;;
trousers made of cotton were 35%. Now it's at 100%.

peppers · Post by **peppers** » Mon Mar 08, 2010 7:15 pm

this apples only to you Brazilians right?

Post by **tepples** » Mon Mar 08, 2010 7:30 pm

Yes, all 192 Brazilian of them.

tokumaru · Post by **tokumaru** » Tue Mar 09, 2010 1:14 am

Looks like Brazil is pissed at the US for some reason. That sucks.

EDIT: I just read something about this in english: http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/dbf4284c-2afa ... ck_check=1

Post by **tepples** » Tue Mar 09, 2010 4:29 am

From the article:

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tokumaru · Post by **tokumaru** » Tue Mar 09, 2010 4:48 am

Yeah, when I tried to read anything else I got that as well. Stupid site.

WJYkK · Post by **WJYkK** » Tue Mar 09, 2010 7:19 am

Retarded Site wrote:Brazil moved to raise tariffs on a wide range of American goods on Monday, potentially igniting a trade war with the US over cotton subsidies after eight years of litigation at the World Trade Organisation.

The decision takes effect next month, starting a 30-day period during which US and Brazilian officials will attempt to negotiate a solution to the dispute.

Welp, that's about what I got from the source code. Now that is what I call Advanced Capitalism 101.

naI · Post by **naI** » Tue Mar 09, 2010 5:32 pm

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/8556920.stm

That's pretty heavy-handed, since the dispute is just over cotton.

tokumaru · Post by **tokumaru** » Wed Mar 10, 2010 3:07 am

Yeah, most of the stuff they are taxing doesn't even have anything to do with cotton...