As President Donald Trump warned that the United States would be Apply additional 10 percent tariff At any country that aligns itself with “anti-American policies of BRICS”, at least three members of the group-China, Russia and South Africa-responded rapidly on Mondays.
Trump’s comments came after the BRICS announcement on Sunday, in a diagonally context of the US, “serious concerns” increased about the increase in tariffs, which, “were inconsistent with the rules of the WTO (World Trade Organization)” and “reducing global business, threatening to disrupt global supply chains and introduce uncertainty.”
The leaders of BRICS, including Prime Minister Narendra Modi, are in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil for the two-day summit on July 6-7.
Hours later, in a post on truth social, Trump said: “An additional 10% tariff will be charged from any country that aligns himself with anti -American policies of BRICS. There will be no exception to this policy”. He did not clear or expand in his post in the context of “anti-American policies”.
BRICS, originally included Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa, expanded in 2024 to include Egypt, Ethiopia, Iran and United Arab Emirates in 2024, joining Indonesia in 2025.
China said that BRICS is not a block for conflict and does not target any third country. “BRICS is an important platform for cooperation between emerging markets and developing countries,” Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Mao Ning told a media briefing in Beijing.
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Mao said, “It advocates openness, inclusion and victory cooperation. It is not a block for conflict. Nor does it target any country,” Mao said. Referring to Trump’s tariff hike threats, he said that China has made its position clear. “There is no winner in business war and tariff war,” he said.
Russia said that the BRICS group does not try to weaken other countries. “We have really seen such statements by President Trump, but it is very important to note here that the uniqueness of a group like BRICS is that it is a group of countries that share the general approach and a common world attitude to shared how to collaborate, based on their own interests,” based on their own interests, “Kremalin spokesperson Dimitri Peskov. “And this cooperation has never been within the BRICS, and will never be, will not be directed against any third countries,” Peskov said.
A spokesman for the South African Foreign Ministry said that the BRICS group should be seen as a push for “improvised multilateralism, nothing else”.
South African Foreign Ministry spokesman Chrispin Firi told Reuters, “BRICS is mainly about making a more balanced and inclusive global order that better reflects the 21st century economic and political realities.”
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In his address at the summit at the summit before Trump’s comments, Modi said: “Our confidence in the diversity and multi -polarity of the BRICS group is our greatest strength. Today, as the world order faces pressures from all sides, and the world is undergoing many challenges and uncertainties, the growing relevance and impact of BRICS can meet simultaneously.
Brazilian President Luiz Insio Lula Da Silva, who hosted the summit, also criticized NATO’s decision to increase military expenditure by 5 percent annually by 2035.
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