India strikes back at Trump’s ‘more tariffs’ threat, says US targeting ‘unjustified’
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MEA) said in a statement published late on Monday, “India’s targeting is unfair and unreasonable,” he said. “Like any great economy, India will take all the necessary measures to protect its national interests and economic security.”
Mea said that the US supported the purchase of India from Russia, which initially forced India to look at another place after the Ukrainian war began.
“India was targeted by the US and the European Union to import oil from Russia after the beginning of the Ukrainian conflict,” Mea said. “In fact, India began to import from Russia because traditional materials were directed to Europe after the eruption of the conflict. At that time, the United States actively encouraged this import by India to strengthen the stability of global energy markets.”
Last week, Trump announced 25% of all Indian goods in addition to the penalty for the purchase of the “majority of Russian military equipment and crude oil. “India not only buys a large amount of Russian oil, but for a large part of the purchased oil, they sell it in the open market for large profits, Tr Trump said on Monday.
Purchase Factor
“I don’t care how many people were killed by the Russian war machine in Ukraine,” he said.
“Therefore, I will greatly increase the tariff paid by India to the US,” he said. India said that imports aim to provide predictable and affordable energy prices for the domestic consumer.
Mea is a necessity that is forced by the global market situation, Mea Mea said. “However, it turns out that the nations criticizing India fall into trade with Russia. Unlike our case, this kind of trade is not even a vital national coercion.”
Mea said the EU is still strong commercial ties with Russia, which is still transcended by India.
“The European Union in 2024 had a bilateral trade with Russia and a bilateral trade of € 67.5 billion. In addition, he had trade in the services estimated to be € 17.2 billion in 2023,” he said. “This is a significant more than India’s total trade with Russia that year or later. In 2024, European LNG imports broke 16.5 million tons of record, and exceeded the last record of 15.21 million tons in 2022.
Apart from energy, Europe’s trade with Russia includes fertilizers, mining products, chemicals, iron and steel and machines and transport equipment.
The US also imports critical products from Russia.
“When it comes to the United States, MEA continues to import for the nuclear industry from the Uranium Hexafloride for the Nuclear Industry, for the home industry, paledium, fertilizers and chemicals,” he said.
Trump had previously targeted India and Russia for his close ties, and said that the two countries could “bring their dead economies together”.
India replied that it would take all the necessary steps to protect its national interests, and also said that the national economy – the fastest growing big – the biggest growing big – is a bright point in the midst of global uncertainty.
Between 2022 and 2024, senior US officials support Russian oil imports that help India’s stable global oil markets to remain stable. In May 2024, US Ambassador to India Eric Garcetti admitted that India had bought Russian oil, because the US asked someone to buy it to ensure that prices do not rise globally. In February 2024, US Secretary of State Geoffery Pyatt adopted India’s role in stability of global energy markets.
