President Trump and Brazilian President Luiz Eneasio Lula Da Silva on Monday discussed the tariff in a phone call that the two leaders stated a positive step towards strengthening the relationship.
In phone calls, which Brazilian government said Went for about 30 minutes, Lula asked Trump to remove additional 40 percent tariff He imposed on the prosecution of former Brazilian President Jair Bolsoro for an alleged conspiracy to stay in power after losing the election. The new tariff increased the current rate from 10 percent to 50 percent.
The leaders said that they agreed to meet the person “soon” and according to the Brazilian government’s readout, “to establish direct communication” phone numbers.
Lula offered to visit the United States, but suggested a meeting at the ASEAN Summit in Malaysia and reiterated his invitation to Trump to attend COP30 in Brazil.
“This morning, I had a very good telephone call with Brazilian President Lula,” Trump wrote Truth in a post on social“We discussed many things, but it was mostly focused on the economy, and trade between our two countries.”
“We will discuss further, and in both Brazil and the United States, we will not meet in a very distant future,” he said. “I enjoyed the call – our countries will do very well together!”
Bolsoro was convicted and sentenced to a 27 -year prison in mid -September, a decision that Trump called “very surprising”.
Trump met Lula in a briefly with Lula at the end of the last month at New York and on the occasion of the United Nations General Assembly and At that time it was said that Lula “Looked like a very good man, in fact,” adding, “he liked me, I liked him.” The US President also said that he plans to meet the Brazilian leader.
According to the Brazilian government’s readout, Lula and Trump “spoke in a friendly tone” during Monday’s phone call, “and” reminded of the good chemistry shared by him in New York. “
Lula postponed the phone call as a step towards decomposing relations between the two countries.
Trump tapped the state secretary Marco Rubio to continue tariff talks with Brazil Vice President Geraldo Alkmin, Brazilian Foreign Minister Mauraura Viera and Brazil Finance Minister Fernando Hadd.
Hadad told reporters after the meeting that it was “positive”, while Alkmin said that the call is “better than expected,” given that he is optimistic that the conversation between the two countries will move forward, will move forward, Reuters reported,
