Brazil’s Lula slams Trump’s Hormuz tariff plans as ‘piracy’

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Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva has criticised Trump’s statement that the US plans to impose a 20pc tariff on ships passing through the Strait of Hormuz, Al Jazeera reports.

“Back in the day, that used to be called piracy,” Lula said in remarks delivered in São Paulo.

“A major country like the United States, which I believe has long fought against piracy, cannot now become a pirate itself,” he said.

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