President Trump issued Nov. 20 an executive order terminating an additional 40 percent tariff on imports of certain agricultural products from Brazil. This change affects more than 200 HTSUS numbers specified in Annex II of the EO linked above and is retroactive for such goods entered or withdrawn from warehouse for consumption on or after 12:01 a.m. EST on Nov. 13, 2025. The additional tariff remains in place for imports of other goods from Brazil not otherwise excluded (click here for more details).
Earlier this month the U.S. removed its “reciprocal” tariffs on virtually the same items imported from all countries, including Brazil, because they are not grown or produced in sufficient quantities in the U.S.
However, that action did not impact the additional 40 percent tariff on imports from Brazil because it had been imposed for a different reason; namely, that country’s “politically motivated persecution, intimidation, harassment, censorship, and prosecution of former Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro and thousands of his supporters” as well as “unprecedented” actions by government officials to “tyrannically and arbitrarily coerce U.S. companies to censor political speech, deplatform users, turn over sensitive U.S. user data, or change their content moderation policies on pain of extraordinary fines, criminal prosecution, asset freezes, or complete exclusion from the Brazilian market.”
According to the EO, the U.S. has now removed that additional tariff from the designated agricultural goods because there has been progress in bilateral negotiations to address these concerns. Refunds of such tariffs paid after the Nov. 13 effective date will be processed “pursuant to applicable law and the standard procedures of U.S. Customs and Border Protection for such refunds.”
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