BRICS Leaders Schedule Virtual Meeting to Discuss Trump Tariffs

A worker walks past a docked vessel at an export terminal at the Port of Santos in Santos, Brazil.

Photographer: Jonne Roriz/Bloomberg

Brazil’s Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva is convening a virtual meeting of BRICS leaders next Monday to discuss Donald Trump’s trade policy, according to four people familiar with the plan.

The Brazilian president wants to discuss not only the trade tariffs imposed by the US government, but also to rally fellow heads of major emerging market nations in support of multilateralism, according to two Brazilian government officials.