{"id":180718,"date":"2025-08-06T19:44:54","date_gmt":"2025-08-06T14:44:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/?p=180718"},"modified":"2025-08-06T19:44:54","modified_gmt":"2025-08-06T14:44:54","slug":"donald-trump-slaps-additional-25-tariff-on-india-total-tariff-raised-to-50","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/2025\/08\/06\/donald-trump-slaps-additional-25-tariff-on-india-total-tariff-raised-to-50.html","title":{"rendered":"Donald Trump slaps additional 25% tariff on India, total tariff raised to 50%"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-180719 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/assests\/2025\/08\/trump.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"299\" height=\"168\" \/>Washington: In a significant setback to Indian diplomacy, U.S. President Donald Trump has announced that Indian imports will now face an additional 25% tariff, raising the total tariff rate to 50%.<\/p>\n<p>According to Kashmir Media Service, the U.S. President signed an executive order to enforce the new tariffs, citing India&#8217;s continued purchase of Russian oil as a key reason. Trump had earlier called India of being \u201cnot a good trading partner\u201d and warned of further economic measures in response to what he termed as unfair trade practices and geopolitical insensitivity.<\/p>\n<p>He had earlier stated that the tariffs on Indian goods would be raised &#8220;very substantially&#8221; within 24 hours, blaming India for buying Russian oil in large quantities and allegedly re-exporting it for profit, even as the conflict in Ukraine intensifies.<\/p>\n<p>The decision marks a sharp escalation in trade tensions and could have serious implications for U.S.-India economic and strategic relations.KMS-21U<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Washington: In a significant setback to Indian diplomacy, U.S. President Donald Trump has announced that Indian imports will now face an additional 25% tariff, raising the total tariff rate to 50%. According to Kashmir Media Service, the U.S. President signed an executive order to enforce the new tariffs, citing India&#8217;s continued purchase of Russian oil &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":180719,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-180718","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-india"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180718","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=180718"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180718\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=180718"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=180718"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=180718"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}