Trump says US will require BRICS nations to commit to not replacing US dollar

WASHINGTON: President Donald Trump said on Thursday the United States will require BRICS member countries to commit to neither creating a new BRICS currency nor back any other currency to the replace the U.S. dollar, or they will face 100 per cent tariffs.

Trump has also previously warned BRICS nations Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa from replacing the US dollar.

(Reporting by Kanishka Singh; Editing by Sandra Maler)

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