‘India is coming to the table’: White House Trade Advisor Peter Navarro

US White House Trade Advisor Peter Navarro 14 September 2025 Sunday CNBC That India came to the negotiation table.

“India is coming to the table. Prime Minister Narendra Modi sent a very conciliatory, beautiful, constructive tweet and President Trump responded. We will see how it works,” he said.

Mr. Navarro said in an interview that countries still negotiate on trade issue and are working on ‘trade barriers’.

“But as a practical issue, we know that they have the highest tariffs of any great country on the trade side. There are very high -tariff barriers. As we deal with every other country that does this, we had to deal with it.”

Mr. Navarro emphasized the problem of the United States about the purchase of Russian oil after 2022.

“And in the meantime, there is this problem of India’s purchase of Russian oil. You never understood this. You never understood. It never did it before 2022. he said.

Mr. Navarro later criticized India for his ties with Russia and China.

“Then they use this money to buy Russian oil, and then the Russians use it to buy weapons. And then as taxpayers, we have to pay more for Ukraine’s defense. And then how can this be. CNBC.

Meanwhile, the US’s South and Central Asian Trade Representative Brendan Lynch comes to India on Tuesday, September 16, 2025 and said that he would continue to negotiate a bilateral trade agreement with a government official. Authorized, US-India trade talks are planned to be held on Tuesday.

Rajesh Agrawal is the chief negotiator and special secretary of India at the Ministry of Commerce.