With tariff hike, Brazil sells 18% less to the US in August, but total exports grow; Sales to China and Mercosur grew nearly 30% compared to a year earlier and helped boost Brazil’s trade balance

https://veja.abril.com.br/economia/um-mes-apos-tarifa-de-50-brasil-vende-18-menos-para-os-eua-mas-exportacao-total-cresce/

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  1. **With tariff hike, Brazil sells 18% less to the US in August, but total exports grow**

    *Sales to China and Mercosur grew nearly 30% compared to a year earlier and helped boost Brazil’s trade balance*

    In August, the first month in which the new 50% US tariff on most products imported from Brazil was in effect, Brazilian exports to Donald Trump’s country fell 18%, according to full-month trade balance data released this Thursday, 4, by the Ministry of Development, Industry, Commerce, and Services. Revenue from sales to Americans dropped from $3.39 billion in August last year to $2.76 billion in August this year. The new tariff applies to about half of everything Brazil exports to the United States and has been in effect since August 6.

    Revenue from everything Brazil exported to the rest of the world rose 3.9% in August 2025 compared with the same month in 2024, totaling $29.9 billion last month. Imports overall, on the other hand, fell 2% in the same comparison base, standing at $23.7 billion in August. As a result, the trade balance surplus—the difference between everything the country sells and what it buys from abroad—grew 35.8%, from $4.5 billion in August last year to $6.1 billion last month.

    The decline in shipments to Brazil’s second-largest trading partner, however, did not prevent total exports from advancing and the trade balance from reaching a new jump, driven by a sharp increase in exports to other important destinations such as China and Mercosur.

    Exports to China, which alone accounts for one-third of everything Brazil sells abroad and is the country’s largest buyer, grew 29.9% in August, to $9.6 billion. Shipments to Mercosur, in turn, rose 27.9%, to $2.2 billion. Meanwhile, sales to the European Union—which, when considered as a bloc, is the second-largest destination for Brazilian products—fell 11.9%, to $4 billion in the month.

    https://veja.abril.com.br/economia/um-mes-apos-tarifa-de-50-brasil-vende-18-menos-para-os-eua-mas-exportacao-total-cresce/

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  5. I like how Brazil can still sell airplanes – Embraer – tariff free into the USA. But coffee? Fuck your coffee. Tariffs. 

    How is that supposed to bolster American manufacturing? 

    By the way I like Embraer – ERJ – as an investment. They got a good rep and there aren’t that many airplane manufacturers in the world. Their airtaxi spinoff EVEX is worth a look too. 

  6. How to fire the reporting authority in Brazil government ?

  7. Yes, America will never be the same or have the same global influence after the orange buffoon is done ruling. Such a large proportion of the world’s population is pivoting away from doing business with the US and the damage is sadly permanent as their unstable political system means you can never trust them to provide stability or honor any agreement.

  8. Make Brazil Great Again! Great job magats. Think the hat would still be red?

  9. Would like to see what happens when us and china go to war and USA shuts down the worlds oceans.

  10. Australia had a rare trade surplus with US because every other country is getting tariffed more than us.

  11. The interesting thing is that with trade in to the US, that limits the amount of trade you can do with people the US does not like.

    Remove that limiting factors and countries find the market in the rest of the world is waaaaay bigger.

  13. Yes Brazil! Good for you – so happy to hear it didn’t negatively impact the trade balance!

  15. The Brazilian Tarriff is bizarre. Trump is going to far , I agree with other Tarriffs with countries that were taking advantage of us, but Brazil? They had a surplus. I don’t care about their govt. None of the US business.

    Or is it more for the fact that brazil is in BRICS trying to topple the US $?

  16. Good for Brazil. Bad for U.S. Oh well. I’m resigned to knowing Romes gunna fall.

  17. I get it.

    Tariffs forced to find new customers. Sometime you find more and better customers!

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