05/24/2024 – 16:18
The president of the Federation of Industries of the State of Minas Gerais (FIEMG), Flávio Roscoe, criticized President Lula’s statement in which he states that he is not sure whether products imported with tax exemption really affect the national industry, referring to them as “trinkets”.
“This statement by the president is absurd, I would say it is unreasonable. These are not trinkets, they are millions of packages that enter Brazil monthly, competing with national products and taking away jobs from millions of Brazilians”, said Roscoe during the Industry Day celebrations in Minas Gerais.
For the leader, the population is paying the bill for not taxing imports. “At all times, the government proposes tax increases because it does not have the money to implement its public policies, but it cannot tax imported products. The national one can, harming commerce, industry and Brazilian society. We are talking about a business worth more than R$100 billion without taxes. If nothing is done, the population will have to pay much more taxes to pay for the size of the colossal Brazilian state that continues to need money”, he warned.
Under pressure from the retail sector, President Lula stated that he is open to negotiations on the end of the exemption for purchases of up to US$50, in what is being called the “blouse tax”.
“How are you going to ban poor people, girls and young women who want to buy a trinket, a hair business?”, Lula told journalists. “I don’t even know if these trinkets compete with what is produced in Brazil, I don’t know,” she said in an interview last Thursday.
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