Trump’s customs measures at an overview
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Updated on July 10th, 2025 – 9:43 amReading time: 2 min.
US President Donald Trump makes more and more customs letters to other countries public-recently it hit Brazilian products to the United States. The EU has not yet been addressed. The customs measures of the Trump administration at an overview.
US President Donald Trump has announced that the customs regulations for different countries further tighten. On Wednesday afternoon (local time), the Republican published a letter to Brazil, in which he announced an increase in tariffs to imports to the USA by 50 percent. This is the highest value so far. Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva reacted with the clear statement that his country was not patronized. Every one -sided increase in tariffs is answered according to Brazilian law about economic mutuality. This could be painful for the Americans.
It is striking on this in comparison to the previous American letter that Trump accuses Brazil of dealing with the controversial former president Jair Bolsonaro. The right -wing politician is on trial because after his election defeat in 2022 he is said to have planned a coup attempt against the government of his successor Lula. He rejects the allegations. Trump writes in the customs letter that Bolsonaro was highly respected in his reign. The US President literally: “This is a witch hunt that should end immediately.”
Hours earlier, Trump had published another momentum from letters. The European Union had initially not been taken into account. The new letters were aimed at the countries of Iraq, Libya, Algeria, Moldova, Philippines, Brunei and Sri Lanka. Since Monday, the US President has announced the new customs regulations for the import of goods to the USA. It justifies the introduction of these tariffs with a previously existing imbalance.
Consumers in the United States in particular could be expensive for tariffs on Brazil products: Brazil is the world’s largest coffee producer and delivers around a third of the coffee consumed in the USA. In addition, more than half of the orange juice consumed in the USA comes from Brazil. Several Brazilian production associations said that every customs change would be passed on to consumers in the United States.
Meanwhile, Trump announced that the already announced tariffs of 50 percent will also apply to copper, depending on the country, from August 1st. The US President wrote on the Truth Social platform: “America will again build a dominant copper industry.”
