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Mar 6, 2015

AFTER STRIKE * Brazil: Truck drivers rolled back many road blockades

* Brazil: Truckers disruptions diminish as president signs trucking bill

-- Brazilian truck drivers rolled back many road blockades this week after President Dilma Rousseff signed a "trucker's bill" aimed at resolving some long-standing truck driver grievances. However, trucker protests continue at a diminished level in parts of the country, according to news reports, cutting into truck traffic at a key Brazilian port for soybean exports... Two weeks of protests by independent truckers angered by rising fuel taxes and costs disrupted exports for Brazil's key soy farming industry, and closed some meat processing plants. Increasingly, the protests threatened to create food, fuel and goods shortages in parts of Brazil, leading the government to impose stiff fines on protesters and arrest others this week... The bill signed into law by Rousseff lowers toll costs, waives recent fines for overweight trucks and promises more rest stops on federal highways, though it doesn't lower fuel prices or taxes — a key demand of the protests, according to Reuters and other news agencies... The trucker protests were sparked an increase in fuel taxes on Feb. 1. Truck drivers in Brazil have been hit this year by higher fuel costs and taxes as well as an overall increase in costs due to inflation. The Brazilian National Association for Cargo Transportation and Logistics stated last week that truckers' costs are running more than 14 percent higher than their income... (Photo: Hundreds of Brazilian truck drivers have participated by shutting down on local roads and highways, creating hundreds road blocks across several major cities) Sao Paulo, SP, Brazil -J.O.C., by William B. Cassidy -Mar 05, 2015

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