Brasil, em reunião do Conselho da OMS, em Genebra, reiterou a necessidade de defesa contínua do sistema multilateral de comércio e condenou o recurso a tarifas arbitrárias

(Brasília-DF, 23/07/2025) O presidente Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva no auge deste debate sobre o tarifaço dos Estados Unidos da ordem de 50% nas exportações brasileiras para aquele país a partir de 1º de agosto disse que o Brasil iria recorrer a Organização Mundial do Comércio (OMC) mesmo com a entidade tendo problemas em fazer valer suas decisões multilaterais. 

Nesta quarta-feira, 23, no segundo dia da reunião do Conselho Geral da Organização Mundial do Comércio (OMC) realizada em Genebra entre os dias 22 e 23 de julho, foi debatido o tema “Respeito ao sistema multilateral de comércio baseado em regras”, ponto incluído na agenda por iniciativa do Brasil. A delegação brasileira foi chefiada pelo Secretário de Assuntos Econômicos e Financeiros do MRE.

O Brasil, quando se manifestou, reiterou a necessidade de defesa contínua do sistema multilateral de comércio e condenou o recurso a tarifas arbitrárias que violam os princípios fundamentais da OMC e ameaçam a economia mundial. Em particular, a delegação brasileira registrou profunda preocupação com o uso de medidas comerciais unilaterais como instrumento de interferência nos assuntos internos de outros países.

Especialmente diante de contexto de profunda instabilidade no comércio global, o Brasil defendeu que os países redobrem seus esforços em prol de uma reforma estrutural do sistema multilateral de comércio e da plena recuperação do papel da OMC como foro de resolução de disputas e de defesa de interesses legítimos de seus membros por meio do diálogo e da negociação.

 

Veja a íntegra da manifestação:

 

 

Reunião do Conselho Geral da OMC (22 e 23/07/25)

Pontos de Intervenção

 

“Respecting the Rules-based Multilateral Trading System”.

Mr. Chair, Madam DG, Dear colleagues,

- Brazil has always been an engaged and steadfast supporter of the Multilateral

Trading System

- Eight decades have elapsed since the creation of the United Nations and the

building of the GATT/WTO system, and this year the WTO celebrates its 30th

anniversary.

- Unfortunately, at this very moment, we are witnessing an unprecedented attack

on the Multilateral Trading System and on the credibility of the WTO.

- Arbitrary tariffs, chaotically announced and implemented, are disrupting global

value chains and risk throwing the world economy into a spiral of high prices and

stagnation.

- Such unilateral measures amount to a blatant violation of the core principles that

underpin the WTO, and that are essential to the functioning of international trade.

- These measures raise fundamental questions regarding non-discrimination and

most-favored nation treatment, and risk undermining the legal coherence and

predictability of the multilateral trading system.

- They further upset the balance of market access conditions negotiated within the

GATT and WTO frameworks for several decades.

- Alongside the deliberate actions that resulted in the paralysis of the WTO dispute

settlement system, they risk allowing global trade to be once again governed by

power dynamics, creating imbalances to the particular detriment of developing

countries.

- Beyond the wholesale violations of international trade rules – and even more

concerning –, we are now witnessing an extremely dangerous shift towards the use

of tariffs as a tool in attempts to interfere in the domestic affairs of third countries.

- As a stable democracy, Brazil has firmly ingrained in our society principles such

as the rule of law, the separation of powers, the respect of international norms, and

the belief in the peaceful settlement of disputes.

 

- We will continue to prioritize negotiated solutions and to rely on good diplomatic and trade relations. Shall negotiations fail, we will resort to every legal means available to defend our economy and our people – and that includes the WTO dispute settlement system.

 

Mr. Chair, Madam DG,

- At this moment of serious instability, it is imperative that we all work together in

support of a rules-based Multilateral Trading System.

- It is essential that the WTO recover its role as a place where all countries can

settle disputes and affirm legitimate interests through dialogue and negotiation.

- As President Lula stated in a recent article:

“There is an urgent need to recommit to diplomacy and rebuild the foundations of

true multilateralism – one capable of answering the outcry of a humanity fearful

for its future. Only then can we stop passively watching the rise of inequality, the

senselessness of war and the destruction of our own planet.”

- A failure to find a path that leads us forward will only promote a negative spiral

of measures and countermeasures that will make us poorer and farther away from

prosperity and sustainable development goals.

- Brazil is ready to start working towards a structural and comprehensive reform of

the WTO. We must go beyond incremental updates, in order to enable it to address

present challenges.

- We should all engage in these efforts. The largest economies, which have

benefited the most from the trading system, should lead by example and take firm

action against the proliferation of unilateral trade measures. The developing

economies, which are the most vulnerable to acts of trade coercion, should unite in

defense of the rules-based multilateral trading system.

- Negotiations based on power play are a dangerous shortcut to instability and war.

Before the threat of fragmentation, the consistent defense of multilateralism is the

path to follow.

- We still have time to save the Multilateral Trading System. Brazil remains ready

to discuss and to cooperate on this objective.

THANK YOU

 

( da redação com informações de assessoria. Edição: Política Real)