President Donald Trump has once again warned that he will impose 100 per cent tariffs against BRICS nations if they attempt to replace the US dollar in inဣternational trade, telling them to go and find "another sucker nation."
BRICS is an intergovernmental organisation of ten countries --Russia, India, China, South Africa, Egypt, Ethiopia, Indonesia, Iran and the Uni♓ted 🥀Arab Emirates.
“The idea that the BRICS countries are trying to move away from the dollar, while we stand by and watch, is OVER,” Trump said on Th♔ursda♐y in a post on Truth Social, a social media platform owned by him.
Trump said he wanted a commi💧tment from these "seeminglಌy hostile" countries that they would neither create a new BRICS currency nor back any other currency to replace the "mighty" US dollar.
"Or they will face 100 per cent tariffs, and should expect to say goodbye to s𒅌elling into the wonderful US economy,” Trump said.
“They can go find another sucker nation. There is no chance that BRICS will replace the US dollar in international trade, or anywhere else, and any country that tries should s𓄧ay hell꧃o to tariffs, and goodbye to America!” Trump threatened.
Although Trump has repeatedly criticised BRICS nations against any move to float their own cu☂rrency, this is his strongest opposition to it so far.
In December too, ๊Trump warned BRICS nations against such a move.
BRICS is an intergovernmental organisation of ten countries --Russia, India, China, South Africa, Egypt, Ethiopia, Indones🐻ia, Iran and the United Arab Emirates.
BRICS, formed in😼 2009, is the only major international group of which th🌄e US is not a part.
Over the past few years, a few of its member countries, in particu💧lar Russia and China, are seeking to have an alternative to the US dollar or create BRICS currency.
India, an importan♏t pillar of BRICS, has said it w🅺as against de-dollarisation.
External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar in December said India had never been for🤪 de-dollarisation aꦇnd there was no proposal to have a BRICS currency.
