India Issues Stern Reply To Trump’s Tariff Hike Threat, Says ‘Targeted By US’ | India News
New Delhi: The Indian government issued a strong response after US President Donald Trump’s threat of applying additional tariffs to Indian goods. The statement published by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MEA) on Monday claims that India has constantly chosen unjustly by both the US and the European Union for Russian oil imports.
In the official statement, Mea, “India and the European Union began to import oil after the conflict of Ukraine was aimed to import oil. In fact, India, after the eruption of the conflict of traditional materials began to import traditional materials to Europe.
India emphasized that energy imports are necessary to ensure domestic acquisition and energy safety among global market outages.
“India’s imports are to provide predictable and affordable energy costs to the Indian consumers. It is a necessity that is forced from the global market situation. However, it turns out that the nations criticizing India themselves fall into trade with Russia.
Expression by the official spokesman
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Supporting his allegations with data, Mea pointed out the scale of the ongoing EU-Russia and the US-Russia trade, and described India’s criticism as “unfair”.
“In 2024, the European Union had a binary trade in Russia and goods with a binary trade. In addition, it had trade in the expected services in 2023 at 17.2 billion euros. This is significant more than India’s total trade with Russia. 2022.”
“European-Russia trade is not only energy, but also fertilizers, mining products, chemicals, iron and steel and transport equipment. When it comes to the US, the Russian Uranium for the nuclear industry continues to import from the hexafloride, Palladium for the Palladium for the Palladium, in the background of India, such as the target of any economy, such as the aim of the economy. measures to protect the safety.
In the early hours of the day, US President Donald Trump sharply criticized India’s trade with Russia in the midst of the ongoing Ukrainian War and took the truth social.
“India not only buys a large amount of Russian oil, then they sell it in the open market for large snow for the large part of the purchased oil.
Since August 1, 2025, Trump announced that he has been imposed on Indian goods by adapting to India’s trade policies and BRICS block. According to Trump, India’s tariffs about US products are among the “highest levels of the world .. He labeled India’s actions as part of a wider anti -American agenda.
