Brazil's president Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva on Thursday night condemned US president threats to raise import taxes on Brazil, mainly because he didn’t like the way it was treating former Brazilian president Jair Bolsonaro.

The US president’s hardened stance aims to test the EU’s pain threshold after weeks of talks on a framework agreement that would have maintained a baseline tariff of 10 per cent on most goods. People familiar with the negotiations say Trump has also been unmoved by the latest EU offer to reduce car tariffs,