LatAm Transport and Capital Goods "Daily Take-Off: TUPY, CPA, VLRS, EMBJ,..."

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LatAm Transport and Capital Goods "Daily Take-Off: TUPY, CPA, VLRS, EMBJ,..."

The agency said the action is not tied to Rumo's operating fundamentals, which

remain robust, but to the contagion risk from Cosan's financial uncertainties,

aggravated by Raizen's out-of-court restructuring and the structural interruption of

dividends from that subsidiary; the risk runs through cross-default clauses on R

$1.4bn of Rumo loans with BNDES. S&P also views Cosan's active evaluation of a

partial or full sale of its Rumo stake as evidence of the asset's reduced relevance to

the group's long-term strategy, and flagged that a further downgrade could come if

Cosan's divestment plan worsens the holding's capital structure to the point of

forcing greater intervention in Rumo's dividend distributions. Potential Impact:

Slightly negative for Rumo, as controller-driven credit contagion raises funding-cost

and potential dividend-intervention risk even with solid operating fundamentals.

WEG, EMBJ, BZ Auto Parts: Business chambers propose deal to avert Section 301

tariff

According to Folha, Amcham Brasil, CNI and the U.S. Chamber of Commerce sent a

joint letter to both governments proposing a short-term, two-stage agreement to

avoid the 25% tariff on Brazilian products signaled under the Section 301

investigation, with immediate priorities including market access in energy security,

data centers and AI infrastructure, regulatory cooperation in autos and medical

equipment, faster patent review and a critical-minerals partnership. USTR chief

Jamieson Greer said he has been talking to Brazilians but signaled a pessimistic

scenario ("there is still a great distance between us, so you will see a final decision

very soon on Brazil"), with the decision due by July 15th; the sectors' reading is that