{"id":182733,"date":"2025-09-03T17:24:37","date_gmt":"2025-09-03T12:24:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/?p=182733"},"modified":"2025-09-03T17:24:37","modified_gmt":"2025-09-03T12:24:37","slug":"trump-rules-out-lowering-tariffs-on-indian-imports","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/2025\/09\/03\/trump-rules-out-lowering-tariffs-on-indian-imports.html","title":{"rendered":"Trump rules out lowering tariffs on Indian imports"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Washington: US President Donald Trump, in a sharp rebuke of India\u2019s trade policies, firmly said that he has no intention of lowering tariffs on Indian imports. The remarks came just a week after Washington doubled levies on Indian goods to 50% as punishment for its Russian oil imports.<\/p>\n

According to Kashmir Media Service, when asked by a reporter whether he was considering taking away some of the tariffs imposed on India, President Trump bluntly replied, \u201cNo\u201d. \u201cWe get along with India very well,\u201d he added at a White House event, but criticized what he said was an imbalanced trade relationship with New Delhi because of high Indian levies.<\/p>\n

\u201cIndia has, you have to understand, for many years, it was a one-sided relationship,\u201d he said. \u201cIndia was charging us tremendous tariffs, about the highest in the world,\u201d Trump said, adding that the US was therefore not doing much business with India.<\/p>\n

\u201cBut they were doing business with us because we weren\u2019t charging them, foolishly, we weren\u2019t charging them,\u201d he said, adding that India was pouring its products into the US.<\/p>\n

Trump set a 25% duty on Indian exports but doubled that level to 50% last week as punishment for purchases of Russian oil. Those levies hit more than 55% of goods shipped to the US, which is India\u2019s biggest market.<\/p>\n

\u201cThey\u2019d send it in, pour it into our country. Therefore it wouldn\u2019t be made here, which is a negative, but we would not send in anything because they were charging us 100 per cent tariffs,\u201d Trump said.<\/p>\n

The US president cited the example of the Harley Davidson motorcycles, saying the company couldn\u2019t sell into India because there was a 200 per cent tariff on a motorcycle.<\/p>\n

\u201cSo what happens? Harley Davidson went to India and built a motorcycle plant, and now they don\u2019t have to pay tariffs, same thing as us,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

Trump has expressed frustration over India\u2019s continued purchases of Russian energy. Critics say such energy buys by India help keep Russia\u2019s economy afloat and undercut sanctions against Moscow aimed at reining in the country\u2019s military machine and bringing an end to the war in Ukraine.<\/p>\n

Earlier, Trump on Monday doubled down on his criticism of India, calling trade ties with the country \u201ca totally one sided disaster!\u201d. In a post on Truth Social, he also said that India had offered to cut its tariffs to zero, but it was \u201cgetting late,\u201d and that the country should have done so \u201cyears ago,\u201d without elaborating on when such an offer was made.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Washington: US President Donald Trump, in a sharp rebuke of India\u2019s trade policies, firmly said that he has no intention of lowering tariffs on Indian imports. The remarks came just a week after Washington doubled levies on Indian goods to 50% as punishment for its Russian oil imports. According to Kashmir Media Service, when asked …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":182089,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-182733","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\/182733","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=182733"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182733\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=182733"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=182733"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=182733"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}