Donald Trump announced the US would levy 25 per cent tariffs on imports from India and impose an unspecified penalty on the south Asian nation, but later threw his plans into doubt by saying the two sides were still negotiating.
In a post on his Truth Social platform on Wednesday, the US president said Indian tariffs were “among the highest in the World” and that New Delhi had “the most strenuous and obnoxious non-monetary Trade Barriers of any Country”.
India had “always bought a vast majority of their military equipment from Russia” and was Moscow’s biggest purchaser of energy at a time when the Ukraine war was still raging, Trump said.