Bribes were paid through the Brazilian engineering firm, Odebrecht, uncovered by Bolsonaro's investigators. The bribery scheme was opened up, internationally, in the course of this investigation. Vale went bankrupt in the process, as they tried to force a global repricing of steel, with a lower content of pig iron and thus lower quality. This level of "cheat", as I mentioned, went on globally, as DJT's "Bad, bad Tariffs" bit hard into the internationally subsidized market.
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