President of the United States Donald J. Trump delivers remarks to a assemblage astatine an America250 rally successful Des Moines, Iowa, United States, connected July 3, 2025.
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U.S. President Donald Trump has threatened an further 10% tariff connected countries that orient themselves on the "Anti-American policies of BRICS."
Trump's announcement, which did not elaborate connected immoderate circumstantial argumentation of BRICS, came arsenic the group's gathering is underway successful Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
The bloc's leaders appeared to instrumentality purpose astatine Trump's sweeping tariff policies successful a associated connection on Sunday, informing against "unjustified unilateral protectionist measures, including the indiscriminate summation of reciprocal tariffs."
Without calling retired the U.S., the leaders voiced "serious concerns astir the emergence of unilateral tariff and non-tariff measures which distort commercialized and are inconsistent with WTO rules," informing that the "proliferation of trade-restrictive actions" endanger to disrupt the planetary system and worsen the existing economical disparities.
"Any Country aligning themselves with the Anti-American policies of BRICS, volition beryllium charged an ADDITIONAL 10% Tariff. There volition beryllium nary exceptions to this policy," Trump said successful a station connected Truth Social Sunday evening stateside.
Trump could person been provoked by the BRICS leaders' associated connection taking a thinly veiled swipe astatine his tariff policies, said Stephen Olson, erstwhile U.S. commercialized negotiator and existent visiting elder chap astatine the ISEAS-Yusof Ishak Institute.
By "anti-American" policies, the president whitethorn beryllium referring to "the tendency expressed by BRICS members to determination beyond a U.S.-led satellite bid successful concern and planetary governance," said Olson, adding that however that alignment volition beryllium assessed was "anyone's guess."
This year's BRICS big state Brazil did not respond to CNBC's petition for comments.
The BRICS radical of processing nations besides offered symbolic backing to chap member, Iran, condemning a bid of subject strikes connected the country, without naming Israel oregon the U.S which carried retired the subject operation.
The bloc includes Brazil, Russia, India, China, South Africa, Saudi Arabia, Egypt, United Arab Emirates, Ethiopia, Indonesia and Iran. The grouping describes itself arsenic "a governmental and diplomatic coordination forum for countries from the Global South and for coordination successful the astir divers areas."
The bloc seeks to challenge Western-dominated institutions of planetary economical governance, arsenic good arsenic to supplant the U.S. dollar's relation successful the planetary economy, according to the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace.
This year, Chinese President Xi Jinping sent Premier Li Qiang to the BRICS gathering successful his absence, portion Russian President Vladimir Putin, who faces an apprehension warrant from the International Criminal Court, attended online.
In effect to Trump's menace of 10% other duty, a spokesperson for Chinese overseas ministry said astatine a regular property briefing Monday that China opposed immoderate enactment of utilizing tariffs arsenic "a instrumentality to coerce others."
"China has been accordant successful opposing immoderate tariff war, commercialized war," the spokesperson said, adding that "arbitrarily slapping tariffs does not service the interests of immoderate party." That's according to CNBC's translation of her comments successful Mandarin.
Separately, Trump confirmed that the U.S. volition commencement delivering letters connected Monday, detailing country-specific tariff rates and immoderate agreements reached with assorted trading partners. That affirmed Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent's comments implicit the weekend.
The Trump medication has said that tariffs announced successful April volition instrumentality effect connected Aug. 1, alternatively of July 9, for countries that person not reached an statement with the U.S.
Bessent rejected the thought that Aug. 1 was yet different caller tariff deadline. "We are saying this is erstwhile it's happening, if you privation to velocity things up, person astatine it, if you privation to spell backmost to the aged complaint that's your choice," Bessent said Sunday connected CNN's "State of the Union."
In April, Trump announced a 90-day intermission connected the steep tariffs helium had unveiled conscionable days prior connected astir trading partners. That intermission is owed to expire connected Wednesday, sparking interest among investors and U.S. trading partners.
— CNBC's Erin Doherty, Lim Hui Jie contributed to this story.
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