Lula visits Japan to strengthen business relationships | Method
President Luiz Inacio Lula Da Silva on Monday (24) started a four -day tour with a delegation of nearly 100 businessmen, which at the time, US tariffs encourage countries to acquire other trade relations.
Lula and Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba should also discuss the joint project to develop biofuels before the COP30 Climate Summit, which will be held in Belem in November.
After the new rates imposed by US President Donald Trump aluminum, steel and other products, two rulers will meet on Thursday (27) to reiterate their commitment to free trade.
Lula, before the trip, said, “All those who have talked about free trade are practicing protectionism.”
“I am irrelevant to this defenseism,” said the Brazilian president in an interview with the Japanese Press.
After Canada, Brazil was the second largest steel exporter to the United States, sold four million tonnes in 2024.
Japanese Press Lula and Ishiba have reported with simple mutual visits and set up a strategic conversation on security and other aspects.
At the meeting, both of them may also preserve the importance of international regulations -based order.
Lula will receive Tuesday (25) with a ceremony at Tokyo’s Imperial Palace, the same night dinner.
It is Lula’s third tour, as the president of Brazil, to Japan, and the fourth largest economy worldwide.
Lula hopes to increase Brazilian exports to Japan, including the meat and planes made of embrya. To move forward with his plan, he will be participating in the financial platform for new opportunities on Wednesday.
Currently, China’s main commercial partner in Brazil, in 2023, exceeds $ 160 billion (916 billion Riyas). Official data said that Japan was the 11th major commercial partner in the country.
Brazil “has increased his financial dependence on China in recent years,” IBMEC Professor Kareena Kalarin has told the AFP in Sao Paulo.
Since returning to power in January, Trump has increased to 20% tariffs on China’s exports, which has reached a record high last year.
According to Kalarinin, it is “threatening Brazil to make changes to changes in the international scene.”
Efforts to diverse foreign trade due to the nation’s “structural dependence” in relation to China are difficult, and Professor of International Relations at Bracelia University has pointed out.
He is considered a more balanced trade scene for “short -term” Brazil.
Tokyo, however, can be considered a way of preventing Brazilia from getting closer to Brazil China and Russia.
After collective migration at the beginning of the twentieth century, Brazil was one of the largest Japanese Diasporas in the world.
The Lula government apologized last year for torturing Japanese immigrants during World War II.
Thousands of people in Santos (Sao Paulo) were expelled from their lands in 1943 and at least 150 Japanese immigrants and their children were imprisoned on a remote island.
Asked forgiveness, Lula told the Japanese Press before the trip, “We can make our past mistakes.”
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