President Donald Trump signed executive actions on Wednesday imposing a 50% tariff on Brazil, a 50% tariff on certain copper products and suspending a tax perk for all countries that allowed cheap packages to fly into the US duty-free.

President Donald Trump issued an executive order reiterating the 50% tariff rate on Brazil that he previously announced on July 9 in a letter to the country’s president Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva. The new rate goes into effect in seven days,

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump signed an executive order Wednesday to impose his threatened 50% tariffs on Brazil, setting a legal rationale that Brazil’s policies and criminal prosecution of former President Jair Bolsonaro constitute an economic emergency under a 1977 law.