Peter Hakim, President Emeritus of the Inter-American Dialogue, recently summed up the state of U.S.-Brazil relations by arguing that “the central problem for Brazil-US relations has not been their disagreements. It has been their inability to find areas of agreement….
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Brazil and the U.S. to Continue Bilateral Accord on Cotton
Brazil’s Valor Econômico reports that the governments of Brazil and the United States have reached a temporary understanding to extend the bilateral accord that suspends Brazil’s World Trade Organization authorized retaliations against U.S. imports due to illegal subsidies to U.S….
On the Road to Retaliation?
For over a decade Brazil and the United States have sparred over the latter’s agricultural support programs, largely within the institutional arena of the World Trade Organization. This commercial conflict came to a head in 2010 upon the WTO’s authorization…