Camp David, Md. ? President Bush and Brazil’s leader plotted cooperation on freer global trade and increased use of alternative fuels in talks that brought the allies together for the second time in less than a month.

President Bush drives Brazil President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva in a golf cart shortly after his arrival Saturday at Camp David, Md. It was the second time in less than a month that they met.

Bush and first lady Laura Bush greeted President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, the first Latin American head of state Bush has hosted at his presidential retreat.

“Beautiful day,” Bush said after Silva emerged from a helicopter and they walked through a column of Marines and sailors, then past a color guard displaying flags of both nations.

Bush got behind the wheel of a golf cart, with “Golf Cart One” on its hood, and he and Silva drove off into the woods for their meeting.

Like their meeting earlier this month in Sao Paulo, Brazil, biofuels and world trade talks dominated the session.

Bush called their joint desire to see a global free trade deal “the most compelling part of the opportunity to work together.”

“It is in our interest to work together to make sure that we have a deal that treats Brazil fairly, the United States fairly, as well as other nations fairly,” the president said during a joint news conference in a small building on the wooded mountain property. “I strongly believe that the best way to alleviate world poverty is through trade.”

The Doha Round of world trade talks, named for the city in Qatar where they were launched in 2001, stalled last year. Developing countries were upset because rich nations would not make significant cuts in farm subsidies and demanded greater access to markets in the developing world.

No major breakthrough had been expected at Camp David, and none seemed forthcoming.

Bush said it will take more than the will of just the United States and Brazil to break the logjam.

“What we won’t do is accept a unilateral deal,” Bush said.

And Silva, while praising their two hours of talks as “the meeting that was the most productive one” of all he has had with Washington, still said he was going home with little to brag about.

“If someone asks me, ‘What are you taking back to Brazil,’ I would say nothing. I’m not taking anything back to Brazil,” he said.

Still, the point had been for the two leaders to coordinate on what they could do to advance the larger talks. Silva said he was encouraged and Bush said the United States is committed to getting it done.

The two leaders’ talks on ethanol followed up a memorandum of understanding to promote international ethanol that the two nations signed when Bush visited Brazil on March 9.