Brics summit: Brazil’s Lula calls US duties ‘tariff blackmail’; bats for ‘multilateralism’
Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva (AP) Brazilian president Luiz Inácio Lula on Monday condemned what he described as “tariff blackmail,” as Brazil contends with a 50 percent import duty imposed by his US counterpart Donald Trump. “Tariff blackmail is being normalized as an instrument for market conquest and to interfere in domestic affairs,” Lula said…