Brazil Braces for Trump's Tariffs. Brits Say Goodbye to Ozzy

0:01Today on State of the World, Brazil braces for Trump's tariffs, and Brits say goodbye to Aussie. You're listening to State of the World from NPR, the day's most vital international stories, up close, where they are happening. It's Thursday, July 31st. I'm Christine Arismeth. Birmingham, England gives a hometown farewell to local boy and heavy metal hero Ozzy Osbourne. More in a moment. First, President Trump set an August 1st deadline for countries to strike trade deals with the U.S. As the deadline rapidly approached, he made some last-minute deals with some countries, and up the ante with others.

0:51Most notably, Brazil, where he made good on his promise to add a 50 % tax on some but not all products, Punishment for what he says is Brazil's violation of human rights and the political persecution of its former president. NPR's Kerry Kahn reports Brazilian farmers and producers are on edge. The hills outside the small city of Andradez in southeastern Brazil are covered in bright green coffee plants. Rich red volcanic soil and plenty of rain makes this corner of the ag-rich Minas Gerais state ideal for growing high-end arábica beans. 70-year-old Paulo Riso slides open the huge steel door to his coffee warehouse.

1:39He plunges his hand into a huge sack, pulling out a large bunch of beans. Smelling that coffee, it's green, but it smells good. The best tasting there is, he says. Brazil, the largest coffee producer in the world, exports nearly 20 % of its beans to the U.S. But Andrade's coffee growers, all small producers, send nearly all their coffee there. Anxiety has been high since Trump's tariff threat. Yesterday's executive order didn't help. Trump exempted hundreds of Brazilian products, but coffee wasn't one of them. Trump says the tariffs are in response to what he calls Brazil's dismal human rights record, especially the case against its former far-right president, Jair Bolsonaro, who's facing charges for trying to overturn his 2022 election loss and stay in power.

2:35Yesterday, the U.S. Treasury also sanctioned the Brazilian Supreme Court justice overseeing Bolsonaro's case. Brazil's president, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, says Trump's interference is unacceptable. His staunch nationalistic defense is giving his sagging popularity a boost. But coffee producer Riso Enandrades isn't convinced. Look, the tariffs aren't good for anyone, he says. He blames Lula for the current situation. As his wife, also a coffee producer, prepares a pour-over and a spread of breads and cheeses in their home's large kitchen, Rizzo says Lula isn't a serious leader and should have met with Trump a long time ago.

3:20Lula says he sent messages asking for negotiations, but claims his calls have gone unanswered. The industries that made it to Trump's long list of exemptions yesterday expressed relief. Thank God things worked out for us, says Carlos Alberto Lucado of one of Brazil's citrus associations. Nearly half of all orange juice consumed in the U.S. comes from Brazil, much from Limeira, the self-described orange capital in Sao Paulo state. Some businesses have complained of sagging sales as shoppers prepared for a hit to the local economy.

4:02Guilherme Torate owns a small music shop and teaches accordion near the city's municipal market. He says he thinks the slowdown was just a coincidence. His wife, Ana Paula, hopes so, but says Presidents Trump and Lula have to work this out.

4:22The two of them aren't thinking about their own people, she says. They're just thinking about themselves. Kerry Kahn, NPR News, Limeira, Brazil. Now to the central English city of Birmingham, the hometown of heavy metal megastar Ozzy Osbourne. Osbourne died last week at the age of 76. Tens of thousands of his fans gathered to pay respects to a musician known for his Prince of Darkness stage persona, who changed the sound of rock, and who raised millions for charity in a final concert. Willem Marks reports. As the lead singer for Black Sabbath, John Michael Osborne, known as Ozzy, was often called the Prince of Darkness.

5:07But as his coffin was driven along Birmingham's Broad Street on Wednesday, the mood among the crowds who gathered to see him off was more celebratory than sombre, captured on a city webcam feed.

5:24Six police motorcycles led a local music group, the Boston Brass Band. and they performed Black Sabbath classics from several albums dating back decades as many fans sang along.

5:37The route included a bridge now named for the band Osborne fronted for almost 60 years, and it was there that his visibly emotional wife Sharon, his children and many grandchildren paused to add their own flowers and bouquets to the vast sea of tributes and messages left in the past few days. Chants for the singer rang out. And his family acknowledged the well-wishers, some returning the peace sign gesture that had been such a feature of Osborne's on-stage performances. His fame had expanded far beyond his musical career when he appeared on the reality TV show The Osborne's. It was MTV's most-watched programming in the early 2000s.

6:16His family had privately funded the funeral procession too, a poignant moment for Birmingham as it celebrated and commemorated a man that the city's mayor, Zafar Iqbal, described as one of its greatest living legends who had, he said, put Birmingham on the map.

6:35Early this month, Osborne had been back in Birmingham for a concert at the city's soccer stadium, as captured by fans.

6:46It was his final public performance, and the first time the band's original line-up played together in more than a decade, with major acts like Metallica and Guns N' Roses helping raise substantial funds for charity. As his funeral procession passed through the city Wednesday, Osborne's fans were back in force, cheering, taking photographs, occasionally bowing their heads. Some balanced on nearby railings, a few climbed a bus stop for a better view. One advertising screen along the route displayed a picture of the singer with the message, Aussie forever, Birmingham will always love you. For NPR News, I'm Willem Marks.

7:24That's the State of the World from NPR. Thanks for listening.