It looks like things are heating up between the USA and Brazil
Now the US is investigating Brazil over trade practices
The investigation will focus on digital trade and electronic payment services, preferential tariffs, and anti-corruption interference, as well as intellectual property protection, to determine whether there are “unreasonable or discriminatory and burden or restrict” American commerce, according to a statement by the United States Trade Representative (USTR).
It will also look into ethanol market access and illegal deforestation.
Source:
https://edition.cnn.com/2025/07/16/business/us-probe-brazils-trade-practicesIt looks like it's going to get more serious from now on and could even make tariffs worse
There will be more news like this in the media soon as this is a familiar move by the US whenever they target someone. But unfortunately, this move will not work because there is no trade deficit between the US and Brazil, nor are they Brazil's largest trading partner.
Increasing tariffs or escalating tensions will only hurt both countries, and the people of both countries will bear the full consequences.
Brazil certainly will not give in because they are a country with a trade deficit with the US, not the other way around, so they have no reason to give in to unreasonable US pressure.