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US calls on Brazil to reconsider proposed tariff increases in Brazil and Mercosur

Friday, September 21st 2012 - 06:48 UTC
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US Trade Representative Ron Kirk urged the Brazilian government in a letter sent on Wednesday to reconsider plans for “protectionist” tariff increases expected to hurt US exports. Read full article

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  • DanyBerger

    Oh! poor captain Kirk again dealing with a strange alien culture...

    Can he brings America Enterprise back to growth again?
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DMoWt0wnlUw

    Sep 21st, 2012 - 10:06 am - Link - Report abuse 0
  • v for victory

    Dany Berger

    What?

    Sep 21st, 2012 - 10:31 am - Link - Report abuse 0
  • briton

    Kirk said,
    It was a no win scenario,

    So I changed the rules to suit me,

    And thus made it a win, win , scenario for him [America]
    mm
    .

    Sep 21st, 2012 - 11:13 am - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Idlehands

    Brazil is deluding itself if it believes it can introduce tarrifs for the benefit of itself and then expect trading partners not to follow suit. It's a fools game.

    Sep 21st, 2012 - 11:27 am - Link - Report abuse 0
  • briton

    The british on the other hand, lowered the barriers and intodused FREE TRADE,

    great,,,,,,,,,

    others intoduced brarriers, and lost trade,
    not so great ..

    Sep 21st, 2012 - 11:30 am - Link - Report abuse 0
  • GastonBaires

    Because Britain has no other option!

    Sep 21st, 2012 - 03:16 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Captain Poppy

    Victory.....don't pay dumburger any attention. It is educated at la campora and incapable of using reputable links thus it's consistent refernec to utube and wikipedia. You see, in the la campora labs, they implant a utube chip on the stem cord and then upload.......the birth of a troll. I can hear Fatsimo the Fat Fuck kirchner.....“Life....we have life!”
    Anyway......he doesn't even life in south america. SO he is really pointless.

    Sep 21st, 2012 - 03:37 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • toooldtodieyoung

    That Lenny Henry has really let himself go, hasn't he?

    Sep 21st, 2012 - 05:02 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Ottona

    Ron Kirk deserves the thanks of all Brazilians and all in MERCOSUR: Ron Kirk's rude, naive and inexerienced approach has finally UNITED BRAZILIANS RIGHT AND LEFT - against the USA ! Even the normally servile hyper-pro-USA “O Estado de Sao Paulo” showed the indignation against this almost comedic communication from “The Executive Office of the President” - The U.S. Trade Representative, “Ambassador” Ron Kirk. ---The first lesson about Latin America - which even some of the Brits have absorbed - is: NEVER CHALLENGE VERBALLY AND THEN EXPECT A SERVILE COMPLIANCE! This works in the U.S. a threat “you may need a good whacking”(in New Jersey), or “my nephew is a lawyer” (in New York), or “I file a complaint with the commission” (in Washington. D.C.). It does not work anywhere in Latin America! Even Mikey Cantor , the CIA-linked attorney, as U.S. Trade Representative used only veiled mafia-style hints about geopolitical consequences - which gave the other side the time to huddle and agree on a “negotiated settlment” (details “undisclosed”!). Thus “Ambasssador” Ron Kirk is not the right representative for the interests of the U.S. in 2012 and Latins are not going to give him a pass for being “minority person”. Brazil position is very clear: The “quantitative easing” by the U.S. Fed of TRILLIONS additional U.S. backed by hotair and with the burden of a U.S. debt of $15 trillion (of which $ 2 trillion to China, $ 1 trillion to Japan, $ 300+ billion to Brazil!) - has pushed Brazil's industry working with the solid REAL into competative disadvantage and has lead in 2011 to a trade surplus of the U.S. of $ 8+ billion over Brazil's export to the U.S. 2012 - to August, the U.S. trade surplus over Brazil is already $ 2+billion. At the same time, U.S. taxpayer subsized agricultural exports - are undercutting Brazil agricultural exports on the international markets. Now Brazilians rally together against “Ambassador” Kirk !

    Sep 21st, 2012 - 07:34 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • ChrisR

    9 Ottona

    The solid real???

    Which planet have you been on recently?

    Brasil have been devaluing the Real to boost exports for months now.

    To quote a pun: get real!

    Sep 21st, 2012 - 08:19 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • briton

    6 GastonBaires (#)
    Because Britain has no other option!
    ,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,
    britain invented it old chap...

    Sep 21st, 2012 - 08:20 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Fido Dido

    Ron Kirk, obombo's crony bogus free trader is crying.

    “Can he brings America Enterprise back to growth again?”

    No, cause the facts are, they screw things up with more regulations and tax increases and Romney is no diferrence if any idiot here thing that the Republicans will “save” jobs.

    Sep 22nd, 2012 - 12:43 am - Link - Report abuse 0
  • briton

    Romney
    Sounds like a nice typical American guy,
    Sadie he seems to suffer from Amnesia .

    They say, uses satellite navigation just to find his way home,
    Sadly..
    .

    Sep 22nd, 2012 - 10:43 am - Link - Report abuse 0
  • British_Kirchnerist

    #1 lol =)

    Sep 25th, 2012 - 01:11 am - Link - Report abuse 0

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