Donald Trump he pointed out that if members BRICS do not heed this warning, “their products will be affected 100 percent tariffs and they will have to say goodbye to the opportunity to trade within the great US economy“. In August, the president Brazil Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva proposed during the BRICS summit in Johannesburg creation of currency within this organizationwhich will allow them to be more independent from dollars.
The idea of the Brazilian leader however, it was not accepted by the remaining BRICS countries. According to Polish Institute of International Affairs (PISM) alarming theses about the fall of the dollar appearing in public debate are groundless and may be part of Russian or Chinese disinformation.
Donald Trump threatens the BRICS countries. “We require assurances”
Moreover, on Friday evening (Saturday in Poland – ed.), Trump held a meeting with the Prime Minister Canada Justin Trudeau. The leaders had dinner together at the residence of the president-elect Mar-a-Lago in Florida, the conversation concerned, among others, trade and the border between both countries. Trudeau is the country's first leader with groups G7who met directly with Trump after elections.
The American ABC television reported that Trudeau told journalists waiting for him outside the hotel on Saturday that it was his Conversation with Trump was “excellent”but did not answer any other questions. In turn, the Associated Press agency, citing the statement of a person “knowing the details”, reported that it was “three-hour lunch, positive, with a wide range of topics”and they talked about trade, border security, the fentanyl problem, defense, Ukraine, NATO, Chinapipelines and the G7 meeting to be held next year in Canada.
USA. Trump's first economic decisions. He announces an increase in customs duties
Let us remind you: Trump announced on Monday that his first economic decisions it will be there after the January inauguration increasing tariffs on products from Chinabut also imposition of 25 percent tariffs on goods from Canada and Mexicowhich he justified by the opioid and immigration crises. Trudeau talked to Trump already on Monday, later described the conversation as “good”, and journalists cited sources according to which Trudeau told Trump about the problems Americans would experience after imposing tariffs on Canadian goods.
BRICS it is a political and economic agreement Brazil, China, India, Russia and South Africa. This year they joined him Egypt, Ethiopia, Iran i United Arab Emirates. The status of BRICS partner countries includes, among others: Belarus, BoliviaIndonesia, Malaysia, Nigeria, Thailand and Vietnam. Applications for such a status include, among others: Türkiye.