Brazil’s oil exports to the US face potential disruption from threatened tariffs, prompting the country and its state-controlled oil company Petrobras to explore new markets and strategies.

The U.S. is set to place hefty tariffs on several big energy producers—Algeria, Brazil, Iraq and Libya. So why do oil traders seem unbothered? For one thing, the executive order that accompanied Trump's April "Liberation Day" tariffs exempted energy and energy products.

The US economy is expected to slow the rest of the year as tariffs take a bigger toll on consumers and businesses, immigration constraints intensify