“Even the Soviet Union” would do what Trump is doing with Brazil, Amorim tells the Financial Times

The main international consultant of Lula said that Brazil will strengthen its links with the Brics countries

Celso Amorim, the main foreign policy councilor of President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, criticized in an interview with the British Economic Newspaper Financial Times the threat of Donald Trump’s government to impose a 50% rate on Brazilian exports to the United States.

Amorim he told the newspaper That the republican attempt to interfere with Brazilian internal affairs has no precedents “or in colonial times”.

“Not even the Soviet Union would have done something like this,” he said, underlining that Trump is trying to act politically within Brazil in favor of the former president Jair Bolsonaro, “his friend”.

The rates were announced by Trump on 9 July and should be valid from 1 August. The President of the United States cited as a reason for taxation that the treatment given to Bolsonaro by the Brazilian court in the trial in which the ex -Mandanker and ally of the Republican are accused of planning a coup. For Trump, it is a “witches hunt” against the ally. Lula said that the threat is an “unacceptable blackmail”.

In the interview with FT, Amorim reiterated the Brazilian decision to deepen his participation in the Brics block, made up of Brazil, China, Russia, India and South Africa, despite Trump’s pressures.

The Republican imposed a 10% supplement on countries in line with the Bric, which considers an anti-weeb group, and has criticized the lula lines to preach a “decyperalization” of the world economy during the blocking of the block in Rio at the beginning of this month.

“What is happening is to strengthen our relationships with the Bric, because we want to diversify our relationships and do not depend on any country,” said Amorim, observing that Brazil also intends to strengthen ties with countries in Europe, Asia and South America.

Although China is the largest commercial partner in Brazil, with imports that reached $ 94 billion as far as agricultural and mineral products last year, the former chancellor denied that Brazil has it that Beijing is the main beneficiary of the high American rates.

At the same time, Amorim rejected that Brics has an ideological character, defending the blockage as a way to support the global multilateral order, especially in the face of the unilateral and isolationist position we under Trump.

Lula’s consultant also asked the European Union to quickly ratify the commercial agreement with Mercosur, observing that the ratification would lead not only to immediate economic earnings, but also to a greater balance in global relations.

The international consultant also stated that Canada has shown interest in negotiating a free trade agreement with Brazil and has indicated that the last year of the government of Lula will focus on the integration of South America, a region that ceases internally than any other in the world.

For Amorim, Trump is an unusual case of diplomacy: “Countries have no friends, have interests; but Trump has neither friends nor interests, only desires”. He declared that the approach of the former president is “an illustration of absolute power”.

The Lula Consultant of Financial Times Advisor occurs at a time when the Brazilian government seems to consider the entry into force of the Trump rate next Friday.

The Brazilian authorities and Lula himself publicly complained that they have no negotiation channels with the White House.

Last Friday (25), the Brazilian agent said that the president of the United States Donald Trump was led to believe in “a lie” that former president Jair Bolsonaro is suffering persecution.

“Bolsonaro is not my problem, it is a problem of Brazilian justice,” said the president during an event in Osasco (SP).

“If President Trump had called me, I would definitely explain to him what’s going on to the former president,” he said.

Lula was available to negotiate 50% taxation for Brazilian exports and declared that he had resized an “excellent negotiator” for the task, the vice -president and the Minister of Industry and Commerce, Geraldo Alfine.

Already governors of the opposition, such as Tarcísio de Freitas (San Paolo), Ronaldo Caiado (Goiás) and Ratinho Jr. (Paraná) have criticized the strategy of the federal government in an event of the investors in San Paolo.

Ratinho Jr. (PSD) called Lula’s speech “lack of intelligence” on trade in trade. “Bolsonaro is no longer important than this commercial relationship between the United States and Brazil,” he said. None of the governors mentioned Trump’s demand on Bolsonaro.

Source: Terra

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