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What Renan Santos said about implement a competitiveness agenda to add value to Brazilian production

Renan Santos

Renan Santos

June 30, 2026

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Renan Santos: So, I've raised a series of points here that are absolutely unbearable to work with and that make your cost much higher than bringing that already finished from China, right?

Renan Santos: It's bizarre.

There's more, let's put it this way: if you need to buy special machinery, you're not incentivized to bring that machinery, you'll be taxed just to bring a machine that will increase your productivity.

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Renan Santos: All the microeconomic legislation, both related to how you'll be able to pay your taxes and how you'll be able to collect, you'll have to spend a ton on an accountant, a ton on a lawyer because of the legal cost that involves all economic activity.

Renan Santos: And at the end of the day you'll still have a closed financial system, in which it's hard to work credit, hard to obtain credit.

Why it was classified this way · 76% confidence

Criticizes taxation on machinery that increases productivity; describes a tax-related obstacle.

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