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The developing countries participating in the BRICS Summit – yesterday, Monday, refused to accuse the American president of being “hostile to the United States”, Brazilian President Lula da Silva said that the world does not need an emperor after Donald Trump threatened to impose additional customs duties on the bloc.
This comes, at a time when an informed source said that the administration Donald Trump It does not intend to impose new customs duties by 10% immediately on developing countries members of the BRICS group, but they will proceed with that if individual countries are called what is called “anti -United States” policies.
The source added, “A separation line is drawn. If political decisions are taken hostile to the United States, customs duties will be imposed,” the source added.
President Trump said the day before yesterday that the United States will impose additional fees of 10% on any member state of the BRIX bloc of developing countries, which is biased to the so -called “anti -United States policies”, which prompted the members of the bloc to confirm strongly that they are not targeting US.
At the conclusion of the Brax Summit in the Brazilian Rio de Janeiro, President Da Silva expressed a degree of challenge when journalists asked him about Trump’s threat to impose customs duties, and he said, “The world has changed. We do not want an emperor.”
“This is a group of countries that want to find another way to organize the world from an economic perspective. I think this is the reason for people feeling uncomfortable with it,” he said.
It is not yet clear whether Trump’s threat to impose customs duties will hinder the ongoing trade talks with India Indonesia and other countries in the BRICS group.
The first Brax summit was attended by Brazil leaders China India and Russia, joined South Africa Later.
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The BRICS Group countries represent about half of the world’s population and 40% of the global economic product.
Cutting the dollar
Last February, Trump warned that the BRICS countries would face “100%customs fees” if they tried to undermine the role of the US dollar in global trade.
Brex has already retracted the efforts to offer a unified currency to the group suggested by some members last year.
But Da Silva repeated his point of view that global trade needs alternatives to the dollar.
“The world should find a way to avoid relying on the dollar in our commercial relations,” he added, “It is self -evident that we have the responsibility to do so carefully.
Quiet responses
Other countries in Brex responded to Trump’s threats more calmly. The President of South Africa said The serrious Ruminza For reporters, the group does not seek to compete with any other force, and expressed his confidence in reaching a trade agreement with the United States.
“The customs duties should not be used as a tool for coercion and pressure,” said Chinese Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Mao Ning, adding that Brex calls for “fruitful cooperation for both sides and does not target any country.”
“With regard to the imposition of customs duties, China has always confirmed its position that commercial and customs wars are not winning, and that protectionism does not allow progress,” she added.
For his part, a Kremlin spokesman said that cooperation Russia with Brex Group It is based on “a common global vision and will never be directed against other countries.”
In a statement to Reuters, an official from Indonesia – which recently joined the BRICS Group – said that the Minister of Economy participating in the Brazil’s conglomerate summit went on Monday to the United States to oversee talks Customs.
Malaysia – who attended the summit as a partner country and imposed customs duties by 24%, was suspended later – that it maintains independent economic policies and does not focus on ideological compatibility.