SAO PAULO (Reuters) -Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva on Thursday said he would not take orders over tariffs from a foreigner, referring to U.S. President Donald Trump, and later called the United States' threatened duty "unacceptable blackmail.

Brazil's President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva stepped up a confrontation with the US, accusing it of “unacceptable blackmail” over a proposed 50 per cent tariff on Brazilian g

In a public letter, the US president urges the South American country to ‘immediately’ stop the legal proceedings against the former far-right president and keeps up his threat of tariffs