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and Obama Urges BRAZIL to Close Gap Between Rhetoric and Policy on 100 % BRAZILIAN IMPORT TAXES FOR MADE IN THE USA CARS FROM GM, FORD AND CHRYSLER.

Just imagine the damage Brazil has created to cars MADE IN THE USA AND THE LOST JOBS AND THEIR HUGE DOLLARS LOSSES !!!!!

The rethoric are always Brazilian....until proven otherwise.

Or why not make a deal :
The USA charges ZERO import tax on Brazilian ethanol and Brazil charges
ZERO import taxes on cars made in the USA !!!!!

The EU should also think for the same FAIR & RECIPROCAL DEAL !

A more proper comparison would be between the tariff, if any, that Brasil places on the metallurgical coal that Walter Energy ships out of Mobile to fuel Brasilian steel mills. The U.S. exports the best
metallurgical coal, Brasil exports the best ethanol - there should not be a tariff on either. The $400 or so million that the U.S. confiscates from Brasilian ethanol producers is an obscenity given the
re-investment opportunities available in the Brasilian biofuel sector.

Welll this I really dont know.
What is sure is that the USA STEEL MILLS IMPORT A LOT OF COKING % CHARCOAL...FROM BRAZIL.
Unfortunately well documented due to the fact the Brazilians hide some of their production by zsing slaves labors !

And are you so sure that the USA charge $ 400 millions for their ethanol imports from BRAZIL ?????
Most Brazilian ethanol imported in the USA is...tax free.....due to the 7,5 % rule of all USA ethanol production can enter the USA TAX FREE ?????

What is your source ? Just using the yearly quantity of gallons imported from Brazil DOESNT MEAN all the imports are taxes at 54 cents a gallon.

And are you so sure that India the largest importer of Brazilian ethanol DOESNT CHARGE an import tax ??????????

Furthermore 54 cents per gallon is MUCH MUCH lower than 100 % tax on imported cars.

Finally Brazil also benefit from the USA MFN (most favored nation) clauses. Brazil exports around $ 25 billion per year to the USA.
And around $ 5 billion are 100 % TAX FREE with the MFN clauses.
Does Brazil provide some type of reciprocity ? OF COURSE...NOT !

Brazil just wants a ONE WAY TRADE. The word Reciprocity is not even in the Brazilian Dictionary !

The problem with the 54-cent tariff is that it is an exclusionary tariff ( as opposed to a revenue or protectionist tariff) that fails to achieve its purpose. The result is that the Brasilian ethanol producers are placed in the same position as the Brasilian government
in the run-up to the 2002 presidential election - they are forced to pay blood money to sell their product just as the Brasilian government
was forced to pay blood money to roll over its debt. The U.S. should
act like a civilized country and lower or eliminate the tariff given
the abusive trade relationship that has evolved.

look at brasil tarrif on US goods
lets rool some of them back .
and while you are at it
why dont you honor your treatys and send shean home to his real father

The 54-cent ethanol tariff does not function like the protectionist tariffs that Brasil employs. It is more like an internal tariff within
the global energy markets where Chavez and the Saudis sell their oil exports tariff free while the Brasilian producers who have succeeded through hard work and ingenuity are penalized. The situation is similar to the internal tariff - very un-Constitutional - that Obama has established in the U.S. on Southern automobile manufacturers where the Southern auto-makers and their employees are taxed to prop up failed competitors who have even less excuse to exist than the walking dead U.S. ethanol industry. After hundreds of years of just this kind of abuse where Brasilian commodity exports have been red-lined out of
competitive world markets, it is about time the politicians in the U.S.
stop acting like selfish, corrupt children and eliminate this tariff of
abomination.