Posted on 07/30/2025 4:33:19 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
President Trump on Wednesday said that India will pay a 25% tariff on Aug. 1 and suffer a penalty for buying Russian energy.
"Remember, 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 posted on Truth Social.
"Also, 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 WILL THEREFORE BE PAYING A TARIFF OF 25%, PLUS A PENALTY FOR THE ABOVE, STARTING ON AUGUST FIRST. THANK YOU FOR YOUR ATTENTION TO THIS MATTER. MAGA!"
Trump later posted, "WE HAVE A MASSIVE TRADE DEFICIT WITH INDIA!!!"
(Excerpt) Read more at justthenews.com ...
He’s open and upfront about his intentions. That’s good. It’s not like he has to lie or sneak up on people. The left is not like that and they can’t counter it so they can only hate.
Thank you Mr President!
...and limit H-1B visas to India to twelve a year.
Ah... leave them alone, a number of their villages have recently been outfitted with real bathrooms, the shift from public defacation takes a while. The holiest river in the region is pretty much an open sewer. The Brits coulda cared less about bringing them forward into the 20th century let alone the 21st.
Lower the Tarriff to zero if they take back all H1b’s.
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