Mr Trump and Brazil’s president, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, are ideological foes and Mr Trump’s allies have long decried a probe Mr Moraes leads into online disinformation. Yet the trigger for Mr Trump’s attack appears to have been the summit of the BRICS,

Brazil’s inflation edged up in early July as US President Donald Trump threatened to slap the South American nation with punishing tariffs, further complicating the consumer price outlook for the central bank.

Brazil's efforts to avoid a steep U.S. tariff hike have been rebuffed, escalating a diplomatic rift rooted in former President Jair Bolsonaro's ongoing trial. President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva said.

Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva has hit back at Donald Trump’s tariff threats, saying that his American counterpart was elected as the leader of the United States and “not to be the emperor of the world.

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Santa Claus arrived early for President Lula, and the gift was sent by Trump through this clumsy attack on Brazil’s sovereignty,” a diplomat said of threatening tariffs in support of Bolsonaro.

President Trump’s new levies, which have pushed the country’s tariffs to their highest levels in decades, are typically paid by importers when goods reach U.S. ports. So there is little mystery about who makes that first payment.

United States and European officials signaled progress in tariff talks Wednesday, after US President Donald Trump announced a pact with Japan and China said its vice premier would attend bilateral