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Posted on 08/27/2025 3:59:40 AM PDT by marcusmaximus
Donald Trump has imposed a hefty 50% tariff on Indian goods, a move prompted by India's continued purchase of Russian oil. This action endangers over half of India's exports to its biggest market.
According to New Delhi, the tariffs that come into effect today (Wednesday, August 27) will impact £35.8billion ($48.2bn) worth of exports.
Initially, the US President announced a 25% tariff on Indian goods. However, earlier this month, he signed an executive order for an additional 25% tariff in response to India's purchases of Russian oil. This brings the total tariffs levied by the United States on its ally to 50%.
Indian officials have cautioned that the new duties could render shipments to the US commercially unviable, leading to job losses and a slowdown in economic growth.
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They’re in BRICS, buy Russian military equipment and planes, buy Russian oil. If Trump wanted to turn up the heat, he could pressure Euros and UK to do the same to India. Then there’s the banking system which could exclude India from dollar transactions.
A slowdown in Indian economy will also reduce demand for Russian oil.
Or charge businesses 50% labor tariff on those employed, regardless of where they are.
Placing tariffs on software development & outsourcing would be a nice second step.
Need a third step? Tax remittances.
>> Silicon Valley depends on them. The Indian IT industry I believe is centered around Bangalore.
Trump need to break the valley’s addiction to cheap labor.
Ever since Nehru founded the NonAligned Movement back in early 60s India has been playing the great powers off against each other. They have no committed relationship, just a pursuit of their own national interests as they see them.
No wonder Europe is failing.
The root of the problem isn't Silicon Valley - it's that large corporations still see IT as an unmanageable and overpriced pain in the neck. They don't want to have to hire IT staff at all, but to the extent it is required they intend to keep the price as low as possible - history having taught them that the work quality difference between expensive Americans and cheaper Indians is not sufficient to be worth overpaying for the former. And they won't hear arguments to the contrary.
Silicon Valley, on the other hand, is looking for the top .001% - and is perfectly willing to pay those ultra-talented people whatever they want (see Zuckerberg's recent AI hiring) to get their product development done. But the little people who support the big dogs? Same mentality as corporate IT - Indian H-1Bs are cheaper and can't quit every three months to hop across the street to the competition.
Always in the future (i.e. “by 2027”) with the hopes that people will forget by then. Which is one of the purposes of 24 hour media on the net and TV — making people forget what they thought was important last week.
Somewhat agree. We shouldn't police the world energy trade. However, we should tariff the stew out of India until they drop their trade restrictions/tariffs on our goods.
The democrats and their irrational foreign policy produces the very kind of illogical views and ideas. According to many here you cannot simply be neutral; you must choose a side. You cannot be non-aligned. You cannot have relations with everyone.
This is game Trump plays with diminishing returns.
India had spent the last fifty years trying to gain favor with the west, and especially the US. After the shook off the British Empire, of course they branded by the British globalists as enemies of the west.
Modi has only been in office a short time, about the amount of time as Trump; Trump has destroyed all the trust and goodwill garnered in India over the past 50 years.
Modi has ended the border wars with China and trade is breaking out on both sides of the Sino-Indian border; the same is happening on the Sino-Russo border where trade is creating boom towns.
Modi, Xi and Putin are spending 3-4 days together. This is to hammer out the fledgeling Defense-Treaty and Military Pack between the three nations.
India will take the one chair of leading Brics for one year, after Brazil. India is idealy positioned to lead the Global South and non-aligned states to joining Brics.
Obama, Trump, Biden, and now Trump have ensured the case for Brics remains strong.
Trump was working agianst Brics from Day One in office with his Tariffs; Trump was doing the entire Tariff Wars to bring down Brics.
Brics, unlike the EU or G7, do not use or endorse Sanctions. What Trump is doing is forcing memebers of Brics, and applicant nations, to form more than just an economic alliance. Trump is leading the US quest to re-order the world/maintain US leadership of the world thru coups, conflicts, sanctions and tariffs.
Meanwhile, Poland’s new leader has moved to strip Ukrainians of welfare, and he is preparing the Polish military to invade Western Ukraine to reclaim lands lost a the end of WWII; this will be where the Ukrainians are sent initially before being forced off the Polish dole into Ukriane itself.
Poland’s desire to reclaim lost land will set off German demands to return the land it lost to Poland.
Hungry may eventually turn agianst Ukriane, and is probably going to economically re-align with Russia. Trump’s demands that you choose alligances to the US over friendship or relations with other states will result in a self-imposed Isolation of the US as we finandcially withdraw from everywhere to just where we control.
India is one angry nation towwards Trump and the USG. The people are not happy with the US/Trump. The US has tried to destabilize Modi and Trump’s moves to sanction/tariff India is one of those moves.
Equivalent tariffs are fine, agreed.
Germany is paying 3.5x more for non-Russian energy... or for the Russian energy routed thru middlemen and business and factorys in Germany are closing up.
France is losing their overseas emprie; while only 4% of the population it accounts for 30% of French imports. Africa is pushing the west out.
Britian is an enery of America and Trump is breaking the conditions that Britian used to control the USA. I do not think that the Brit’s are close to an IMF bailout until next year.
Europe is financially devasted. The Ukraine conflict served two purposes for the US; we broke the EU as an economicl competitor by ruining their competitiveness using oil as the weapon.
Here at home in the US we too are financailly hurting. Trump cannot turn abour 40 years of economic policy that moved industry out; we have to rebuild our economy with manufacturing and have a balanced workforce.
Trump is selling weapons to the EU for Ukraine. Trump bragging about making profits off a war was the most idiotic statement that needed to be left unsaid. That one soundbite will do more damage to the reputation of the US in half the world than everything else he has done to present.
Peace Through Strength.
Afraid that has gone away.
BRICS is forming their own banking system and their own trading mechanism.
All we are doing is isolating ourselves from the world and accelerating a move away from the Dollar. Who will then buy our DEBT?
BRICS is just going to ignore these tariffs and sanctions and reduce their trade with the U.S., we need them more than they need us at this point.
Excellent point, Every President since 2000 has helped destroy this country with Debt, between 2016 and 2028 we will have added $24 Trillion to the National Debt because of two Presidents.
They had interest rates as high as 21% and now down to 18%, which is what we should have done, we still have high inflation and now taking about a rate cut, what a disaster we will have.
We don’t have a Paul Volker to run things at the FED.
There’s also about 1.5 billion people in India.... genius
I also am a user of voice to text so don’t sweat the occasional error. I think people can read through it and it bothers us, who made them, more than others who . . . read through it.
Some items.
1) India’s GDP growth last year was 6%. Probably deserves some !!!!. Their surplus with the US is about $45B, and this is a pretty tiny % of their $2+Trillion GDP. It is much bigger hype than the numbers demand.
2) India’s oil consumption is about 5 million barrels/day and their domestic production is 900K bpd. There is hopeful talk floating about relevant to some suggested shut down of refinery buys from Russia. The specifics are government-owned refineries, and they are rather less than the majority of imports. The private refineries buy more oil and no one has said they stopped Russian oil buys. When the govt decides, as historically pretty much all govts do, that they will not be coerced by oil sanctions, the govt refineries will resume normal behavior. (See US response to Arab oil embargo, Japan response to FDR cutting off oil imports. No one accepts coercion derived from oil)
3) Reports say there are long, rage-inducing lines at Russian gas stations. I have a report on this. I went a youtube vid that was referenced by a website making these claims. It was a video of a car driving past a very long line of cars. Went on for a while to demonstrate line length. When the car got to the front of the line, it shut off filming. But too slowly in a world with pause clicks. The line of cars was heading into . . . some store. The store had no gas pumps. Don’t know what they were selling, but it wasn’t petrol.
4) Re interest rates and inflation. Russia has a slew of complex subsidies at the consumer level. They exist. I am no expert on them. They just get mentioned. When people see prices, they then go to GPT and ask for the average salary in Russia. Then they declare no one has enough money for rent and food. But oddly, those grocery store shelves are full and you can see employees wandering around stocking them. I see nobody emaciated. Nobody is starving.
5) As for the intricacies of banks and loans, Russia has a central bank just like everyone else. They had restrictions on it in the 1990s that caused Soviet failure as oil price fell (money supply was restricted to the Interior ministry’s 5 year plan, which needed to adjust upwards as oil price fell. It didn’t. They literally ran out of money). But those restrictions are gone. They are just like the Fed or ECB or BoE or BoJ or Peoples Bank of China. They can create money and inflation? Just cap it by decree. The US did that once.
It’s very very hard for a country with a central bank and nearly no debt on the books to fail because of money. Not going to happen in Russia. Especially not at 10 million barrels/day.
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