US duties on Brazilian goods have jumped to 50 per cent, but the South American leader says he thinks Trump ‘doesn’t want to talk’.

Lawyers for former Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro appealed on Wednesday a house arrest order imposed against him earlier this week, a document sent to the Supreme Court and seen by Reuters showed.

As US tariffs on Brazilian goods jumped to 50 per cent on Wednesday (Aug 6), Brazil's President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva ...