President Donald Trump escalated his trade war, imposing new tariffs on Brazil and announcing fresh duties on copper imports.

Trump slapped a 50% tariff on Brazil, and Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva said his country would respond.

"America will, once again, build a DOMINANT Copper Industry," Trump said in a post on his Truth Social media platform.

Donald Trump said he plans to impose a 50% tariff on imports from Brazil. Questions about the future of FEMA loom amid the Texas floods. And "Superman" becomes a political flashpoint ahead of the new movie's release.

Donald Trump threatened to impose a 50% tariff on Brazil over its domestic political affairs, the most extreme case yet of the US president weaponizing trade policy to make unrelated demands.Trump cited the treatment of former President Jair Bolsonaro — a right-wing populist leader — in his letter to Brazil on Wednesday,

President Donald Trump has sent out tariff letters to seven smaller U.S. trading partners in his first batch of import tax announcements of the day.

A nother deadline passed on Wednesday without President Donald Trump following through on his threats to impose new tariffs. It was 90 days ago that Trump had announced an abrupt pause in his plan to levy new tariffs on countries around the world.

Donald Trump’s threat to impose 50% tariffs on Brazilian goods sent the country’s currency plunging as the US leader sharply escalated a dispute with Latin America’s largest nation and leftist leader Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva.