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U.S. study to create green tariff for imported

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The U.S. Congress evaluates impose a "green tariff" on imports from countries that do not adopt limits on emissions of greenhouse gases similar to those adopted by the United States. The measure would be a way to protect the competitiveness of American companies that will be required to limit their emissions and participate in the market for carbon credits. According to the Climate Change Bill being considered by Congress American countries not to adopt emission limits similar to the U.S. will have to pay import tariffs in accordance with the "traces of carbon in each commodity - that is, the volume of gas into the atmosphere during its manufacture.

In the first version of the law, which will be evaluated in the energy committee of the House this week, the fare can only be applied from 2025. But the lobby of the carbon-intensive industries - the most polluting, such as coal, glass, steel and others - is pushing to advance the start of the tariff. The countries have until a certain date to take steps to cleaner production similar to the U.S. or its products are to be taxed at the border. This green tariff should generate all sorts of problems, experts predict. "If this exit, you can create a trade war in the WTO," says Diego Bonomo, executive director of the Brazil Information Center, which represents Brazilian companies in the United States. The information is from newspaper


Source: State Agency

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