United States President Donald Trump says countries aligning themselves with the “Anti-American policies of BRICS” will be charged an additional 10 percent tariff.
“There will be no exceptions to this policy,” Trump said in
a Truth Social post.
His announcement comes as the US begins formally notifying
affected countries of the tariffs declared earlier this year, with letters and
deals set to roll out on Monday.
Trump has long criticised BRICS, an economic bloc whose
members include Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa.
The organisation was designed to boost countries’
international standing and challenge the US and western Europe.
The group was later expanded to include Iran, Egypt,
Ethiopia, and the United Arab Emirates (UAE) in 2024. The following year,
Indonesia became the first South-east Asia member.
In January, Nigeria joined Belarus, Bolivia, Cuba,
Kazakhstan, Malaysia, Thailand, Uganda, and Uzbekistan as BRICS’ ninth partner
country after the alliance’s partner-country category was created at the 16th
BRICS Summit in 2024.
Nigeria has continued to push for a full membership.
Since taking office in January, Trump has announced a series
of import taxes on goods from other countries, including a 14 percent tariff on
Nigeria.
Meanwhile, Brazil said BRICS’ foreign ministers expressed
“serious concern at the prospect of a fragmented global economy and the
weakening of multilateralism” in Rio de Janeiro.
Brazil’s stance was not a joint statement signed by members
of the bloc as reports of differences within the alliance have grown.
The statement also did not name the United States — whose
unilateral tariffs have raised concerns about a global economic slowdown.
At the start of the tariffs, Trump encouraged affected
countries to make deals with the US in hopes of a concession.
As the tariff letters go out on Monday, the US president
asked his global counterparts to “take it or leave it”.
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