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news Scmp World 2026-06-03

Lula Thanks China for Beef Access, Defies US Tariffs

Brazilian President Lula thanked China for opening its market to Brazilian beef and stated he would sell to other countries after the US proposed new tariffs.


Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva thanked China for clearing the country’s beef of foot-and-mouth disease and fired a barb at US President Donald Trump, saying “I will sell to someone else”, after Washington announced new tariffs on Brazilian goods. Lula made the remarks on Tuesday, hours after Beijing announced wider access for Brazilian beef to the world’s biggest market for the product. “As God writes straight with crooked lines, nothing comes free for a Christian man like me....

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