Posted on 07/30/2025 6:05:00 AM PDT by tlozo
President Donald Trump said on Wednesday the United States will impose a 25% tariff on goods imported from India starting on Aug. 1.
He said India, which has the world's fifth largest economy, will also face an unspecified penalty on Aug. 1, but did not elaborate on the amount or what it was for.
"While India is our friend, we have, over the years, done relatively little business with them because their Tariffs are far too high, among the highest in the World, and they have the most strenuous and obnoxious non-monetary Trade Barriers of any Country," Trump wrote in a Truth Social post.
"They have always bought a vast majority of their military equipment from Russia, and are Russia’s largest buyer of ENERGY, along with China, at a time when everyone wants Russia to STOP THE KILLING IN UKRAINE — ALL THINGS NOT GOOD!"
India's commerce ministry, which is leading the trade negotiations with the United States, did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
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Force them to take back Indian students who overstay to become H1-Bs.
Send them birth control pills.
that’s not going to curry favor
Cut the amount of student visas from China and India by half (at the very least) and add a huge fee for companies getting h1b visas (around 50k annually per visa)
Excellent, now send them all back.
Good. Next time a refund scammer calls me I’ll ask that they increase my refund by 25%.
Very bad move, this only encourages more countries to sell off more US debt that finances our country’s operation. We have $7 trillion in debt coming due, who will buy it?
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“ This will not be simply a trade war. This is the same tactic that FDR used on Japan that led to WWII. So Trump is going to put sanctions on India and China for buying Russian oil? I do not know who is advising Trump, but even threatening this type of action has already resulted in the formation of BRICS. Putting sanctions on India will be a huge mistake. As of mid-2024, India holds about $240 billion in U.S. debt, making it one of the top 15 foreign holders of U.S. Treasury securities. For comparison, China has around $770 billion.
At the same time, India has been adjusting its holdings of U.S. debt, though the available data does not explicitly state large-scale sales. India is promoting rupee-denominated borrowing (e.g., Masala Bonds) and deepening its sustainable debt market (now worth $55.9 billion) to reduce reliance on foreign currency debt. It appears that India is in a position to start dumping US debt if Trump dares to impose sanctions, and this will result in a declining dollar against the rupee from 2025.….”
25% is too little. If they continue to buy Russian oil it should go up to 100, then 250, then 500 and beyond.
I think India will work a deal...and drop Russia.
Far better that than trying to impose an embargo on Russia’s core trade.
This should be entertaining...
What about that Indian CEO of Microsoft wanting to fire US citizens and hire his relatives from India ?
But who will staff all of the convenience stores? /s
Deport the H1B invaders back to Bombay and re-hire Americans!
would anyone know where to find detaisl on the deal he struck with the EU? (And like how it’s memorialized, documented, enforced?).
The new talking point for the left is, “no he didn’t. this is a lie, that deal didn’t happen”.
Which implicitly of course acknowledges that the deal is a win....but even so, I’d like to dig in a little deeper, especially on the energy piece where they promise to buy hundreds of billions of energy from the US....how does that work??
The establishment of the village toilet program notwithstading should be a signal that India needs much more than applied tariffs.
Will the trade deal have a Poo In Loo clause, and is there a tariff rate on Bobs and Vagene?
The West has grudgingly recognised its inability to persuade India not to buy Russian oil. However, anti-Russian lobbies continue to apply pressure on New Delhi, seeing that their goal of imposing a strategic defeat on Russia has proved illusory.
Tariff their outsourcing & H1B-lovin employers out the wazoo. Tax their remittances at 25 percent.
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