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.

India has joined Brazil at the top of the global tariff chart after the United States, under President Donald Trump, imposed an additional 25 per cent import duty on Indian goods. The new hike, announced via an executive order on Wednesday,