The US has imposed steep tariffs on Brazil and sweeping financial sanctions on the nation’s supreme court judge trying former president and Donald Trump ally Jair Bolsonaro on charges of plotting a coup.
The action against justice Alexandre De Moraes under the Magnitsky Act, which is reserved for serious human rights offenders, marks a significant escalation in the US president’s campaign against Brazil’s democratically elected leftwing government and the nation’s top court.
Trump also signed an executive order on Wednesday confirming a 50 per cent tariff on Brazilian imports, a measure he had threatened earlier in the month after demanding a halt to Bolsonaro’s trial, which he described as a “Witch Hunt”.
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