Trump announces a 25% tariff on India

President Trump announced on Wednesday that the United States would impose 25% tariffs on imports from India, in addition to an un specified “penalty”, so, according to him, they were his high rates and commercial barriers, and for his great purchases of military equipment and energy from Russia.

Mr. Trump published about tariffs in India on social networks on Wednesday morning, saying: “Remember, while India is our friend, over the years, we have made relatively few issues with them because their tariffs are too high, among the highest in the world, and have the most strict and unpleasant commercial barriers of any country.”

The president criticized India for buying Russia’s energy products “at a time when everyone wants Russia to stop the murder in UKRAINE“

In a separate publication, the president said: “We have a mass commercial deficit with India!”

Although US exports to India increased in 2024, their commercial deficit also increased by 5.4%, to $ 45.7 billion. The director of the National Economic Council, Kevin Hasett, told journalists on Wednesday morning: “India has had a market that has been quite closed to US products, and we have been open to theirs. And I think President Trump is frustrated with the progress we have achieved with India, but feels that a 25% tariff will address and remember the situation in a good way for US people.”

When Mr. Trump met with Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi In the White House in February, he said that the United States would increase military sales to India and that the two countries had reached an agreement on oil and gas that would cause the leader of the US India.

Trump said Monday during a meeting with the United Kingdom Prime Minister Keir Starmer That the majority of the countries that did not reach the commercial agreements with the US. Uu. Giving the deadline of its administration of August 1 would face a rate of 15% to 20%. Last week, he had mentioned a wider range of 15% to 50%. The European Union reached a commercial agreement with the United States during the weekend and Japan, Philippines, Indonesia and the United Kingdom also have trade agreements with the US.

Anne Bryson and Kathryn Watson contributed to this report.

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