Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva said Wednesday he will urge Russian President Vladimir Putin to attend possible peace talks with Ukraine’s Volodymyr Zelenskyy, amid mounting suspense over whether the Russian leader would take part in the proposed meeting in Turkey.

A surprising tariff pause between Beijing and Washington will not help U.S. farmers revive soy sales in China without additional concessions, producers said, because top-supplier Brazil still has a competitive price advantage.

"China and Brazil are getting together. They're going to build infrastructure, and they're going to make SAF and they're going to build railroads, and it's not good for us and our future. That's why we need new markets,

While a plan to create a faster Pacific Ocean route for Brazil-China trade has been under consideration since 2014, it was originally intended to move via Chile. The development of the Chancay Port and other infrastructure in the past few years has opened the door to the new route via Peru.

The trade war has heightened China’s need to develop gateways to import the continent’s soybeans, corn and other foodstuffs that are the only viable alternative supply to U.S. exports.

SINGAPORE (Reuters) - Traders have rebranded more than $1 billion of Venezuelan oil shipments to China as Brazilian crude over the past year, according to two tanker tracking firms, company documents and four traders, helping buyers to cut logistics costs and circumvent U.S. sanctions.

At news conference in Beijing, Lula says US does not need to be ‘big boss’ or ‘world policeman’ - Anadolu Ajansı