By Roberto Samora and Rodrigo Viga Gaier
By Roberto Samora and Rodrigo Viga Gaier
SAO PAULO/RIO DE JANEIRO, Feb 17 (Reuters) – Brazilian truck drivers started protesting early on Monday at Latin America’s largest port in Santos, affecting the unloading of shipments and arrival of vehicles on the port, the union representing a number of the protesters stated.
The protesters are demanding a discount of value-added taxes on gasoline and diesel, the port’s administration stated.
A press consultant for the port stated it couldn’t verify the knowledge offered by the union. However the port did say that the protest had affected some unloading actions.
Marcelo Aparecido, a union consultant, stated a whole lot of vehicles didn’t enter the port as usually scheduled.
The protest comes earlier than President Jair Bolsonaro’s authorities sends to Congress a invoice aiming to overtake the value-added tax, a state cost often known as ICMS, as current value cuts at oil refineries by state-run oil agency…