Brasília/IBNS: Brazil President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva has snubbed his US counterpart Donald Trump's offer to talk and instead turned towards BRICS allies like Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi or Chinese President Xi Jinping, media reports said.

"I will call Xi Jinping, I will call Prime Minister Modi. I won’t call Putin, because he can’t travel now. But I will call many presidents," Lula said as quoted by Moneycontrol.

This comes after Trump said Lula can call him anytime to discuss tariffs and other conflicts between the countries.

The diplomatic tension between the two nations escalated as Trump imposed a 50 percent tariff on Brasília in what he called a fight against the "witch hunt" against former Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro.

Bolsonaro, with whom Trump had a good relationship, is facing trial on charges of planning a coup after election defeat in 2022.

This comes amid the ongoing tariff conflict between US and India, who have had shared good terms in the recent past.

Days after Trump imposed a 25 percent tariff and a penalty on imports from India, the US President went ahead to even threaten to increase the tariff owing to New Delhi's oil imports from Russia, which is engaged in a war with Ukraine.

Hitting back at the White House, India's Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) cleared it will take all necessary steps to safeguard its "national interests and economic security".

India accused the US and European Union jointly for its alleged double standards citing how both Washington and EU are engaged in trade and imports from Moscow.