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Weekly Report - 30 April 2026 (WR-26-17)

BRAZIL: Tensions rise over Goiás state mining plans

Brazil’s minister for development, industry, trade and services, Márcio Elias Rosa, has criticised the efforts by the state government of Goiás to attract foreign investment in the extraction of critical minerals, arguing that this is the prerogative of the federal government. Brazil’s left-of-centre federal government led by President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva has been seeking to negotiate a critical minerals cooperation deal with the US government of President Donald Trump, but the attempts by a Brazilian state government to bypass the talks at the federal level could undermine the Lula administration’s plans regarding critical minerals.

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