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US President Donald Trump did not, however, share details on the goods and sectors affected
The US and India have been negotiating a trade deal that the Trump administration has said could be one of the first to be announced, among a slew of deals under discussion with other trade partners. (Image: X)
American President Donald Trump on Tuesday said India has agreed to eliminate all tariffs on imports from the US to “nothing", but did not share details on the goods and sectors affected.
“They’ve already agreed. They would have never done that for anybody else but me," he said, exuding confidence while talking about key US demands in negotiations for a trade deal between the two countries.
The US and India have been negotiating a trade deal that the Trump administration has said could be one of the first to be announced, among the slew of deals under discussion between the US and its other trade partners.
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“India, as an example, has one of the highest tariffs in the world. We’re not going to put up with that. And they’ve agreed already to drop it," he said during a White House media interaction alongside Canada’s Mark Carney. “They’ll drop it to nothing. They’ve (India) already agreed."
There are no details available on the India-US trade talks. But, Trump has been open about his demands going back to his first term, when the two sides had come close to signing a trade deal, which was to be announced during his visit to India in February 2019. Talks fell through, and they were not pursued by either country during President Joe Biden’s tenure.
Talks got underway in the run-up to, and after, Trump’s Liberation Day announcement of sweeping tariffs on nearly all of the country’s trading partners. Imports from India were tariffed at 26 percent, which is currently down to 10 percent, a flat rate the President announced for all countries in a 90-day pause, with the exception of China, whose goods coming into the US are under a 145 percent levy.
(With agency inputs)
Location :Washington D.C., United States of America (USA)
First Published:News world 'Would've Never Done That For Anybody Else But Me': Trump Says India To Drop Tariffs To 'Nothing'
