Donald Trump has threatened to impose a 10% additional tariff to the countries that support the BRICS policies, policies that described as “Antiestadounidenses.” “Any country that aligns with the BRICS anti -state policies will receive an additional 10%tariff. There will be no exceptions to this policy,” he wrote Monday on his social Thruth network. The words of President of the United States They arrive a day after the Block of developing countries, that celebrates these days in Rio de Janeir Unilateral tariff measures that “distort the World Trade”The BRICS statement did not explicitly mention the US or Trump, but everything seems to indicate that the Republican has been referred to.
The American’s threats arrive only two days before the moratorium granted by its administration to the tariffs he announced in April for half the world. The White House trusted to take advantage of that period to renegotiate the commercial relationship with its partners, but to date it has only managed to close agreements with the United Kingdom y Vietnam. Given the proximity of the term, the US Secretary of Commerce, Howard Lutnicksaid Sunday that tariffs will enter into force August 1. Before, this week, your department will send letters to the commercial partners of the first economic power to detail customs taxes that will be applied to their exports to the US if they do not close a new commercial agreement before.
In his message on social networks, Trump did not clarify which anti -American policies refers to or what he understands to align with the BRICS policies. Created in 2009 by Brazil, Russia, India, China y South Africa with the claim to move towards a more multipolar world that reflects in its institutional architecture the growing weight of emerging economies, the group expanded last year to include six other countries: Egypt, Ethiopia, Emirates, Iran, Indonesia y Saudi Arabia. This alignment includes countries openly opposed to Western hegemony, such as Russia, China or Iran, with others much closer to their orbit, such as Brazil, India, Egypt or Saudi Arabia.
Moscow and Beijing response
Before Trump’s warnings, which already threatened last month with imposing a 100% tariff on the BRICs if they replace dollar as reserve currencyone of the ideas that have been promoting for some time, Russia said that group’s work is not directed against a specific country. “The interaction within the BRICs was never and will never be directed against third countries”Said Kremlin spokesman, Dmitri Peskov.
From China, neither the regime of Xi Jinping He wanted to enter the rag in Trump’s statements. “Regarding the imposition of tariffs, China has repeatedly declared that its position that the commercial wars and tariffs have no winners and that the protectionism It is not a way to follow, ”said spokeswoman Mao Nobo. Beijin also struggled to reject the idea of confrontation as a reason for being from the BRICs.” The group does not seek the Field confrontation And it does not refer to any country, ”added the spokeswoman.
Both XI and the Russian Vladimir Putinon which an international arrest warrant weighs, they have been the great absent of the Rio Summit, which concludes this Monday.
