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Updated – February 22, 2026 09:54 pm IST – NEW DELHI
Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva gestures during a press conference in New Delhi. | Photo Credit: Reuters
Instead of negotiating with the U.S. on tariffs separately, countries should form “negotiating blocs”, said Brazil’s President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva in New Delhi on Sunday (February 22, 2026), advocating for “unionisation” of those suffering from the tariffs. Mr. Lula, himself a trade union leader in the 1980s before he founded Brazil’s ruling “Workers Party”, said that while he did not wish to comment on the internal workings of the U.S. where the Supreme Court struck down the tariffs imposed globally by U.S. President Donald Trump last year, he hoped that all countries would be “treated equally” by the U.S. on the issue.
“I want to tell the U.S. President that we don’t want a new Cold War. We don’t want interference in any other country, we want all countries to be treated equally,” Mr. Lula said, answering questions from journalists at the end of his four-day visit to Delhi, where he attended the AI Impact Summit and held bilateral talks with Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
Published – February 22, 2026 11:42 am IST
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