Overview

• Federal police executed Supreme Court-authorized searches of Jair Bolsonaro’s home and party headquarters and imposed an ankle monitor, a social media ban and restrictions on contact with diplomats over his alleged 2022 coup plot
• The United States Trade Representative’s Section 301 investigation and President Trump’s threat of 50 percent tariffs on Brazilian goods remain set to take effect on August 1 without a mutually acceptable resolution
• President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva denounced the tariff threat as “unacceptable blackmail,” underscoring Brazil’s judicial independence and national sovereignty in a televised address
• Brazil is preparing reciprocal measures under its Economic Reciprocity Law, including counter-tariffs and new regulations to tax and oversee foreign tech firms in the name of digital sovereignty
• Foreign Relations Minister Mauro Vieira says Lula is open to bilateral trade talks under equal terms if coercive demands are withdrawn