Brazil eyes global food leadership amid U.S.-China trade tensions

Brazil eyes global food leadership amid U.S.-China trade tensions

As trade tensions rise between the United States and China, Brazil is stepping forward as a new global leader in food security

The 145% U.S. tariffs could trigger impacts on China's economy's trade and growth, indirectly affecting markets like Chile and Peru, which depend on Asian giant's copper demand, but also Brazil through exports of agricultural products and to Colombia through oil.Latin America faces a potential impact on China's demand for raw materials, which in the midst of the trade war with the U.S. has been the country hit hardest by Donald Trump's tariffs. …