India and Brazil moved to resist US trade pressure, in a sign of how the White House’s economic policies are alienating friendly nations.

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Brazil's President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva spoke by phone on Thursday, their offices said, discussing a broad range of topics that included tariffs imposed by the United States on goods from both countries.

Brazil's Ambassador to India, Kenneth Felix Haczynski Da Nobrega, criticised the US decision to impose a 25% additional tariff on Brazilian imports, raising the total duty to 50%. He said the move would affect trade ties built over 200 years but stressed that Brazil–US connections in business,