Brazilian President Lewis Eneasio Lula Da Silva rejected US President Donald Trump’s offer to “call at any time” to discuss the tariff on Tuesday (local time), and said he would like to call India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi and China’s Xi Jinping instead. However, Lula refused to call his Russian counterpart President Vladimir Putin as he cannot travel right now. Lula said during an event in Brasilia that I am not going to call Trump for any conversation, because he does not want to talk. But stay relaxed, Marina, I will call Trump to invite COP, because I want to know what their opinion is on the climate issue. I will show the etiquette to call, I will call them, I will call Xi Jinping, I will call Prime Minister Modi, I will call.
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India, China, Russia and Brazil, along with South Africa, are members of BRICS, an alliance that the United States has repeatedly claimed that it is working against Washington’s interests and has threatened to put tariffs. Last week, Trump said that Lula could call him at any time to discuss tariffs and other disputes between the two countries. Talking to reporters outside the White House, Trump said, he can talk to me whenever he wants. Brazilian Finance Minister Fernando Haddad welcomed the US President’s remarks and said Lula also feels the same. Tension increased between the US and Brazil after Trump imposed 50 percent tariffs on Brazilian products. This time Trump’s move is completely political and its target is a case against former President Zayar Bolsonaro in the Supreme Court of Brazil.
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Jayer Bolsonaro is a colleague of him, who was accused of playing an alleged role in an attempt to overturn his defeat in the 2022 election. Trump also mentioned the case run by the court on American social media companies that did not follow local laws as a reason to increase Brazil’s trade fee in a public letter. The US Census Bureau said Brazil had a 6.8 billion trade surplus of US $ 6.8 billion with Brazil last year. Brazilian exporters, their representative bodies and politicians – many of whom are friends of Bolsonaro – have severely criticized Trump and urged to interact with Lula, coffee, beef and orange juice associations have also shown solidarity in defense of the country.
‘I’m NOT going to call Trump to negotiate’ – Lula
Brazilian Prez. says Trump has no interest in talking
He also reveals what he’ll be saying to Putin, Xi, and Modi pic.twitter.com/GCUlnsvviA
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