Guido Mantega Quote

Today we are practically living a trade war, a currency war because the exchange rate today is one of the important factors to determine the competitiveness or not of products. Generalized currency depreciation in my view is an explicit strategy used by countries and that threatens us.

Speech at the seminar "The Role of Industry in the Growth of Brazil" organized by the Getulio Vargas Foundation, September 27, 2010/ref>