The president signaled he would seek to use the threat of steep levies to reorient trade and protect his political allies.

U.S. President Donald Trump said he plans to impose 50% tariffs on all products from Brazil starting August 1, which could ...

The 50% tariff that the Trump administration has slapped on Brazilian imports has rattled the global coffee market and could ...

Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva says he will impose retaliatory tariffs on the United States if President ...

Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva has said he is ready to match any tariffs imposed on Brazil by the United ...

One of the highest tariffs threatened by President Trump so far is against Brazil, with the president citing a criminal ...

Economists have been expressing alarm over U.S. President Donald Trump’s plan to hit Brazil with a 50% tariff on Aug. 1 — the ...

The levy is the highest announced so far in Trump’s letters to world leaders this week, and comes after he wrote a lengthy ...

The letter addressed to his Brazilian counterpart reads as a threat to end the ongoing trial of his predecessor, Trump ally ...

Tariffs have become central to Trump's foreign policy playbook. But in Brazil tariff threat, is he conflating his own ...

It shows that personal grudges rather than simple economics are a driving force in the U.S. leader’s use of tariffs.