SAO PAULO (Reuters) -Brazil Finance Minister Fernando Haddad said on Monday that his virtual meeting with U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent had been canceled after initially being scheduled for Wednesday.

That was a setback for the Brazilian government, which had hoped to use the meeting to negotiate tariffs after U.S. President Donald Trump’s administration imposed 50% duties on several Brazilian goods.

Speaking to GloboNews TV, Haddad said no new date had been set for the call, despite Brazil’s request to reschedule it following the cancellation notice.

The minister lamented that Brazil was not even able to sit at the table to negotiate tariffs with the United States and criticized what he called “pseudo-Brazilians” in Washington lobbying against their own country.

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