Brazil's Lula urges Trump to treat all countries equally

NEW DELHI: Brazil's President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva urged Donald Trump to treat all countries equally after the US leader imposed a 15 per cent tariff on imports following an adverse Supreme Court ruling. 'I want to tell the US President Donald Trump that we don't want a new Cold War. We don't want interference in any other country, we want all countries to be treated equally,' Lula told reporters in New Delhi.
The conservative-majority Supreme Court ruled six to three on Friday that a 1977 law Trump has relied on to slap sudden levies on individual countries, upending global trade, 'does not authorise the President to impose tariffs'.
Lula said he would not like to react to the Supreme Court decisions of another country, but hoped that Brazil's relations with the United States 'will go back to normalcy' soon. 'I am convinced that Brazil-US relation will go back to normalcy after our conversation,' Lula, 80, said, adding that Brazil only wanted to 'live in peace, generate jobs, and improve the lives of our people'. — AFP