Brazil’s leftwing president is standing firm against Donald Trump’s 50 per cent tariff threat, as Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva seizes the confrontation with Washington to revive his re-election prospects.
After the US president jolted Brazil on Wednesday with a letter citing political justifications for imposing supercharged duties, Lula immediately promised to retaliate, saying his nation “would not be tutored by anyone”.
The foreign ministry also summoned the acting US ambassador and returned Trump’s “insulting” tariff letter to him. Brasília views the Trump threat as blatantly political, given the US has a trade surplus with Brazil.
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