The president summoned a meeting after the announcement of Trump. Previously, he said that in his country they would apply reciprocal measures subject to current national legislation.
Brazilian President Lula da Silva summoned a Meeting with ministers to discuss the reaction of your government to the 50% tariff that the US president, Donald Trumpthreatened to impose on all imports from the South American country.
Lula had already met with ministers late Wednesday and said on social networks that tariffs would be answered with reciprocal measures. “Brazil is a sovereign country with independent institutions that will not accept to be controlled by anyone,” said the president on Wednesday in X (former Twitter).
Thus, Da Silva maintains a position of respect for the laws since “To operate in our country, all national and foreign companies are subject to Brazilian legislation: “Any unilateral rates elevation measure will be answered in the light of the Brazilian economic reciprocity law.”
Donald Trump imposed a 50% tariff on Brazil, for the trial against Jair Bolsonaro
The president of the United States, Donald Trump, announced on Wednesday the Application of a 50% tariff to Brazilarguing that this high tax is due not only to the commercial deficit, but to the trial against former president Jair Bolsonaro for a coup attempt and for the “attacks” to electoral freedom and expression.
“I have known and treated with former president Jair Bolsonaro, and I have respected him a lot, as most of the leaders of other countries did. The way in which Brazil has treated a highly respected leader in the world during his term, including the United States, is an international shame. The trial should not take place. It is a witch hunt that must end immediately, “said Da Silva.
Lula da Silva replied to Donald Trump for the threat of tariffs to the BRICS countries and called him “irresponsible”
The president of Brazil, Lula da Silva, firmly replied to his American pair, Donald Trump, after the threat of the latter around future tariffs for BRICS members. The South American cataloged this behavior as “wrong” and “irresponsible.”
The answer was given through a press conference, held within the framework of the BRICS Summit, the geopolitical block that concentrates more than half of the world’s population and approximately 40% of the global product.
There, Lula said that it seems “Very wrong and irresponsible a president who attacks others for digital platforms” and warned that, in case Trump fulfills his threat, The rest of the countries are entitled to the same way by “the law of reciprocity.”
Source: Ambito
