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What happens if the US ethanol tariff expires?

  • Chadbourne & Parke LLP
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  • Brazil, USA
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  • September 10 2010

Brazil has temporarily reduced its import tariff on foreign ethanol to zero until the end of 2011 in a move aimed at provoking the United States into letting its ethanol import tariff expire as scheduled at the end of 2010

Poneman to Brazil to launch Strategic Energy Dialogue

  • Mintz Levin Cohn Ferris Glovsky and Popeo PC
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  • Brazil, USA
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  • August 14 2011

On August 17, Deputy Secretary of Energy Daniel Poneman is travelling to Brazil with officials from the departments of State and Commerce, the U.S. Trade and Development Agency, and the Overseas Private Investment Corp to launch the U.S.-Brazil Strategic Energy Dialogue, announced by President Obama and Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff in March

US-Brazil initiatives underway

  • Mintz Levin Cohn Ferris Glovsky and Popeo PC
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  • Brazil, USA
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  • August 21 2011

Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Lisa Jackson led a delegation August 15 to Rio de Janeiro to establish the U.S.-Brazil Joint Initiative on Urban Sustainability

Biofuel production up

  • Mintz Levin Cohn Ferris Glovsky and Popeo PC
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  • Brazil, USA
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  • September 8 2011

The Worldwatch Institute unveiled a report August 30 that showed a 17 percent increase in global biofuel production between 2009 and 2010

Evolving energy relations between the United States and Brazil: actions and expectations from the presidential visits

  • King & Spalding LLP
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  • Brazil, USA
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  • November 10 2011

Brazil is currently the eighth-largest economy in the world, and is poised to become the fifth-largest economy in the next few years, surpassing both Great Britain and France

In other news

  • Chadbourne & Parke LLP
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  • Argentina, Brazil, Mauritius, South Africa, United Kingdom, USA
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  • September 12 2012

The Internal Revenue Service notified the taxpayer that it is withdrawing a private ruling it issued earlier this year that said a company buying an operating wind farm did not have to allocate part of the purchase price to a long-term power contract that came with the project

Natural resources deal flow picks up

  • Chadbourne & Parke LLP
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  • Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Peru, USA
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  • November 15 2012

Over the last 12 to 18 months, the market has seen a flurry of investments in the natural resources sector in Latin America and an increased interest among North American, European and Chinese investors

Global energy industry review

  • Mayer Brown LLP
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  • Brazil, Global, Myanmar, United Kingdom, USA
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  • May 10 2013

The phrase "local content" has begun to appear more frequently in the laws, internal policies and tender protocols of governments and companies

Brazilian ethanol exports to expand

  • Mintz Levin Cohn Ferris Glovsky and Popeo PC
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  • Brazil, USA
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  • January 8 2012

A Brazilian trade association official said December 29 that the country’s ethanol industry anticipates sales to the United States to increase significantly by 2016 due to the expiration of a harsh duty on ethanol imports