One of former President Jair Bolsonaro and his former Special Secretary of Land Affairs, Nabhan Garcia argues that the retired captain remains silent about.
In practically daily contact with Bolsonaro, Nabhan chairs the Ruralist Democratic Union (Nacional UDR), an institution that represents the rancher producers. The subject of tariffs has been a conversation with the former president.
“Brazilian livestock is expecting to see what happens, but I don’t think it’s fair to want to play it over Bolsonaro. This tariff issue has nothing to do with him, but he knows that if he says anything, he’ll get it. Sheet.
The US President not only cites Jair Bolsonaro’s name in his open letter to President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, as he attributes, without evidence, his decision to overcome the country’s products to alleged political persecution of the executive and the judiciary.
Bolsonarism, agribusiness has reacted with dirty in relation to Donald Trump’s announcement and caution and negotiation, expecting the scenario to back down. Within the Bolsonaro clan, the time is alert, fear that this crisis has serious developments and falls on your lap.
“Everyone knows that 100% of farmers are Bolsonaro. So they do not accept this accusation of saying that Bolsonaro is guilty of it. This is a geopolitical issue, and is the result of a stance that the Brazilian government has also been adopting, supporting dictatorships, dictators, countries that are not really democratic.”
By excluding Bolsonaro and his family of any kind of influence on Donald Trump’s decision, Nabhan Garcia also criticizes the position of Brazilian refrigerators, a link from the Agro chain he defines as a “oligopoly.”
“The truth is that today there is a very bad climate between the agro producer and the industry. Why? Because they never pass on to us what they are gaining. The producer is always there, in a small margin. Maybe this situation will be alert, it seems like a pest, a punishment for the refrigeration industry, which never shared profitability.”
Although the Agro sector is completely pressured, Nabhan avoids criticism of Donald Trump, who refers as someone of “strong personality.”
“It’s the president of the most powerful country on the planet. Are you going to confront? I think it’s best to dialogue. It’s time to have humility, review what is happening. If you want to hit the front, it will be worse for everyone. It turns out that today Brazil’s dialogue with the United States is zero,” he says.
The exporters of meat affirm who, if the surcharge is maintained. The 50% rate would make an average exported meat price jump from US $ 5,732 per ton to about $ 8,600.
The United States is the second largest beef buyer in Brazil, just behind China. Currently, they account for about 14% of the total Brazilian beef revenue. In the first half of this year, sales to the US had a relevant increase, with revenue and volume exported more than doubling over the same period of 2024.
The total volume exported to June was 181,477 tons, a 112% increase over the result in the first semester of last year and corresponding to about one third of the entire volume exported by Brazil in 2024 to the world.
The total revenue of bovine meat exports from Brazil to the US in the period was $ 1.04 billion, 102% above that reached between January and June 2024, according to official data from ABIEC (Brazilian Association of Export Industries).
The FPA (Parliamentary Front of Agriculture) also reacted with concern on the subject. By note, he stated that the measure “represents an alert to the balance of trade and political relations between the two countries.”
“The new rate produces direct reflexes and reaches the national agribusiness, with impacts on the exchange rate, the consequent increase in the cost of imported inputs and the competitiveness of Brazilian exports,” said the front of the ruralist bench.
Brazilian orange juice producers are also astonished with. Brazil is today the largest producer and exporter of orange juice on the planet, selling 95% of its production abroad. Of this volume, 42% has the United States as a destination.
The national coffee sector says it sees with concern for US President Donald Trump.
In a note released on Thursday afternoon (10), ABIC (Brazilian Coffee Industry Association) states that Trump’s decision was unilaterally communicated and represents “a serious setback in trade relations between the two countries that can generate extremely negative and relevant impacts for the entire Brazilian coffee production chain.”
Brazil is the main coffee supplier to the US and Americans are the main importers of the Brazilian product. Between January and May 2025, the United States bought 2.87 million bags from Brazil, equivalent to 17.1% of the entire volume exported by the country.
“We hope that common sense prevails market predictability,” said Marcos Matos, director general of Cecafé (Council of Coffee Producers in Brazil).
