Posted on 02/22/2026 9:26:48 PM PST by nickcarraway
India has delayed plans to send a trade delegation to Washington this week, chiefly because of uncertainty after the US Supreme Court struck down tariffs imposed by President Donald Trump, a source in its trade ministry said on Sunday (Feb 22).
One of the first concrete reactions among Asian nations to the decision, it follows Trump's move on Saturday to levy a temporary tariff of 15 per cent, the maximum allowed by law, on US imports from all countries, following the court's rejection.
"The decision to defer the visit was taken after discussions between officials of the two countries," said the source, who sought anonymity as the matter is a sensitive one. "No new date for the visit has been decided."
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Well, India will get hammered anyway.
POTUS has other legal options to put the screws on.
I’d advise India to be very careful.
Thanks a lot you a-holes on the Court. All you did was to weaken a country.
Then no goods from India will come in.
100%
Nothing from India that I can’t live without. So don’t really care and am pretty sure millions of other Americans don’t care that much either.
Not so much about Indian goods coming in as getting those rag heads
already here on h1b out.
That’s an odd take. India has deferred talks till there is clarity on the situation in the US. I don’t think their US counterparts are in a position to discuss anything either.
You don’t think Trump would have had his people do CONTINGENCY PLANNING so they would be ready in case of adverse SCOTUS decision? Really?
And thank you to the free traitors who created this mess. May the next offshored job be yours.
Trump could block everything and then release containers on AFL-CIO request.
Perhaps Congress could pass 15% money export tax.
We simply shouldn’t be importing:
1. stuff that can be made and packaged by automated equipment
[we should only be importing high comparative advantage products
like sewn garments and other high assembly time consumer products]
2. ferrous products for motor vehicles
[we export few cars - tariffs on automobile grade steel won’t hurt US automakers]
3. aluminum alloys for aircraft
[we need the absolute ability to build warplanes]
4. inputs to make plastic products
[this stuff is made at industrial scale]
5. life-saving drugs and their precursors
[so our sick people can’t be held hostage by anti-American governments]
MY TARIFF PROPOSAL
The total tariff shall be:
1. 25%, on aircraft grade aluminum alloys and automotive grade ferrous metal,
2. on national security products [we could and should make],
a. initially 0%, and then increasing by 2% at the start of every IRS quarter month after 2025 to 20%, on
I. industrial level components,
II. any drug for lawful retail sale & consumer use,
III. drug, chemical and plastic industrial inputs, other than refinery hydrocarbons and those for making fertilizer,
VI. semiconductors,
V. solar cells and panels,
VI. basic rare earth element products other than ore,
3. 0%, on
a. other raw materials, including coffee beans, fertilizers and their precursors,
base metals, electricity, raw & refined hydrocarbon products,
when vended without resale or short leash supply restriction,
b. foodstuffs, when sourced from a country for which the Secretary of Agriculture justly holds in good standing
for lack of undue impediment on import of US agricultural products generally vendable in the USA,
4. tariffs paid on section 1 and 2 imports, except from China,
may creditable on a one-to-one basis after bona fide export of manufactured products containing them
via any optional scheme the Secretary of Commerce may allow a bona fide manufacturing exporter to participate in.
The total tariff on all other imports shall have a base percentage of:
1. 20%, on items of a type that have been sold at retail that can be made and packaged by automated equipment,
2. 10%, on any other product,
3. 200%, on a service such as gambling or pornography historically banned by law, or
4. 10%, on any other service.
The base percentage for a particular import shall be:
1. increased 2% per dollar as estimated by the Secretary of Commerce,
on the industry wage shortfall of a key source country compared to the USA,
up to 20%, but levied only if the country is industrially advanced,
2. increased by the percentage of the latest 12-month US<->international commercial cash flow US shortfall,
excluding most raw material transactions,
as to be estimated by the Secretary of Commerce, up to
a. 10%, if the key source country is industrially advanced,
b. 5%, otherwise,
3. increased by the percentage of the latest 12-month US<->the key source country commercial cash flow US shortfall,
excluding most raw material transactions,
as to be estimated by the Secretary of Commerce, of up to
a. 10%, if the key source country is industrially advanced,
b. 5%, otherwise,
4. increased by 2% if a government of the key source country imposes fines
in any way based on revenue or income outside the territory of the government;
5. increased by 2% if a government of the key source country requires manufacturing technology sharing except as the Secretary of Commerce may see fit to specifically allow;
6. increased by 2% if a government of the key source country prohibits American citizens as a general rule
from owning land or mineral rights in the country
or impairs in any way access to the US government for possible redress,
unless it effectively prohibits its subjects from owning land in the USA under penalty of law;
7. adjusted based on the latest 12-month US<->foreign exchange rate change,
as to be computed at least annually by the Secretary of Commerce, with
a. proportional addition by up to 5%, when unfavorable to the US dollar,
b. proportional reduction by up to 5%, when favorable to the US dollar,, but to not less than 10% tariff,
8. as directed by the President of the United States and otherwise allowed by law,
adjusted based on domestic producer profitability, by industry and/or product type,
except when the import is a garment from a country that is not industrially advanced,
or contains intellectual property of key value significance,
as shall be calculated by the Secretary of Commerce, with
I. a 10% addition, no domestic producer of product or service type,
II. addition of calculated percentage that is less than 10%,
III. reduction by calculated percentage that is less than 10%, but to not less than 10% tariff.
For tariff purposes, a country is to be considered industrially advanced if it:
1. exports vehicles sold in the USA, other than motorcycles, which can be driven on a federal interstate highway,
2. produces an aircraft, or more than 10% of an aircraft by value, when such aircraft is certified by the FAA,
3. enriches uranium,
4. produces weapons for export to the USA which had a listed import value in excess of $100 million
in a prior 12-month period less than 24 months past,
5. is considered as such by the Secretary of Commerce for reasonable cause.
There shall be no tariff on bartered items internal to a motor vehicle organization, bartered beverage exchange system, or other barter system approved for tariff exemption by and justly held in good standing with the Secretary of Commerce.
[Certain dollar amounts on apparel, electronic and stuff typically sold below any possible US production amount
should be tariff exempt, not never the whole item regardless of cost. We don’t need to be importing $1,000 cellphones that
could be made in the USA for far less.]
The Secretary of Commerce may by regulation provide tariff exemptions up to the following amounts:
1. $100 on a laptop or personal computer
2. $60 on a smartphone
3. 10 cents per square inch of LCD screen
4. $45 per hard disk drive
5. $1 per first GB of solid-state memory and 20 cents for each additional GB
6. $5 on a shirt, blouse or dress
7. $4 on a pair of pants or skirt
8. $1 on an undergarment
9. $15 on a suit
10. 10 cents per inch of sewing, up to $2 on shoes and any other garment including dolls clothing
11. 80% of the genuine wholesale value of material in a garment
12. 90% of the genuine wholesale value of precious metal in an item of jewelry
13. such amounts on kitchen appliances that do not exceed
80% of values of competitively priced basic models as of June 1, 2023
14. such amounts on hand tools, powered and unpowered, that do not exceed
80% of values of competitively priced basic models as of June 1, 2023.
The Secretary of Commerce or any federal judge shall refuse admission to the US to products whose ability to be supplied to the US market might be the result of a coercive technology transfer agreement, patent infringement or technology or trade secret theft.
MONEY EXPORT TAX
I also support a money export tax of 15% to be collected by the Secretary of the Treasury as he shall promptly specify by regulation.
Amounts brought into the country by tourists and investors may be repatriated without payment of the tax as the Secretary shall endeavor to specify by regulations to be made after reviewing relevant regulations of the CCCP.
All exports of more than $500 per month after September 30, 2026 must be reported to the Secretary in the manner the Secretary shall provide by regulation.
CURRENCY TRANSPORT LICENSE
No person shall physically export more than $2,000 outside of the USA at any time or by any act after September 30, 2026 without a license from the Secretary of the Treasury in a manner the Secretary shall provide by regulation. Such licenses shall be limited to specific transfers of funds shown to be honestly obtained.
Start sending all Indian knuckledraggers back home. We don’t need them anymore.
Interference? DOJ?
4. increased by 2% if a government of the key source country imposes fines
in any way based on revenue or income outside the territory of the government;
5. increased by 2% if a government of the key source country imposed a fine
on a major American technology company
in the month or in any of the 23 months prior
declared by the President of the United States
to be likely in excess of that which would be levied on any other large company for like activity;
....
7. increased by 2% if a government of the key source country prohibits American citizens as a general rule
from owning land or mineral rights in the country
or impairs in any way access to the US government for possible redress,
unless it has a treaty relationship with the USA preventing its subjects from acquiring land in the USA
and no US court has impaired such prevention;
....
9. as specifically directed by the President of the United States by official declaration and otherwise allowed by law,
adjusted based on domestic producer profitability, by industry and/or product type,
except when the import is a garment from a country that is not industrially advanced,
or contains intellectual property of key value significance,
as shall be calculated by the Secretary of Commerce, with
I. a 10% addition, no relatively large domestic producer of the product or service type,
II. an addition of a calculated domestic producer profitability percentage that is less than 10%,
III. a reduction by a calculated domestic producer profitability percentage that exceeds 10%, but to not less than 10% tariff.
The tax rate shall be increased to 20% if the destination is a country to which asylum, refugee, TPS, withholding of removal, or like protection was in effect for any person of the country as of the first day of the current or prior month as a result of any US governmental action according to the records of the Secretary of the Treasury.
Trump would have contingency plans but until other countries know what they are, there’s very little they can do. Countries can’t continue to negotiate any deal if the underpinning structure no longer exists. Until a new deal is put on the table, not much for anyone to do.
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/23/world/europe/eu-us-trade-deal-pause-tariffs.html
https://www.dw.com/en/eu-freezes-us-trade-deal-after-supreme-court-tariff-ruling/a-76095257
Comments like this are a disgrace to our side.
I don't support the H1B programs, but they came here legally, and gave us what we wanted - cheap labor at the expense of jobs for our Vets and kids. Maybe we didn't say the latter part out loud, but many were perfectly fine with that if they could save a few pennies.
Now we and to throw them out for what? Giving us what we want?
We always claim that deportations aren't about demographics, but about law. Well, they came here legally, so deporting them clearly isn't about enforcing the law.
Maybe it's the free traitors who should be thrown out. They're the ones who sold us out.
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