U.S. tariffs on Brazilian goods jumped to 50% on Wednesday, Brazil’s President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva told Reuters in an interview that he saw no room for direct talks now with U.S. President Donald Trump that would likely be a “humiliation.”
Brazil is not about to announce reciprocal tariffs, he said. Nor will his government give up on cabinet-level talks. But Lula himself is in no rush to ring the White House.
“The day my intuition says Trump is ready to talk, I won’t hesitate to call him,” Lula said in an interview from his presidential residence in Brasilia. “But today my intuition says he doesn’t want to talk. And I won’t humiliate myself.”
Finally, a sane fuckin approach to the tarriff madness. But it’s probably due to them exporting to the US a lot less than what they’re importing.
On another note, I really hate that trump’s buffoonery is helping brics. They used to be just a bunch of greedy autocrats but now this asshole is giving them common ground to stand on.
You know, it would actually make sense for “global South” countries to be in some organization and look out for each other, and I hate so much how BRICS pretends to be just that, especially with Russia and China.
You do know Brazil, India & China is a part of that & then there’s BRICS+