Trump calls India-U.S. trade relationship ‘a totally one sided disaster’
Washington, DC – August 26: US President Donald Trump calls a reporter with the management members in the cabinet room of the White House on August 26, 2025, during a cabinet meeting. This is the seventh cabinet meeting of Trump’s second period. (Photo: Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)
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US President Donald Trump doubled his criticism of India on Monday and has doubled the trade ties with the country, “a completely unilateral disaster!” Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi visited China to attend the Shanghai Cooperation Organization Summit.
Trump said in an article on Social Social, that he offered to reduce India’s tariffs to zero, but he was “late” and should do “years ago” without explaining when such an offer was made.
This is opposed to the Floor of the United States, which applied 50% tariff to the country, including 25% secondary tasks last month to buy Russian oil, which India calls “unfair, unjust and unreasonable”.
Trump reiterated that India bought oil and weapons from Russia, and accused the new Delhi of selling the United States of selling a large amount of goods, but implemented high tariffs for the US exports to India.
“The reason for this is that India’s so far, so high tariffs, the most of any country, our businesses can not sell to India. It was a completely unilateral disaster!” He wrote.
Data from World Trade Organization While India’s imports of the United States to the country, it mainly introduces a 6.2% tariff in commercially, it encounters 2.4% of the US’s Indian goods. The average commercial weighted average is the average duty rate per import value unit.
The US-India relations have been healed ties for more than twenty years, and that several US officials have increased their criticism of New Delhi on Russian oil imports. While India targeted the new Delhi, the US and the European Union called on Russia.
The Indian Ministry of Foreign Affairs reveals last month that the nations criticizing India themselves fell into trade with Russia. [for them]. “
India in May Reported that “zero zero” offered Tariff agreement on a certain amount of imports, mutually steel, automatic components and drugs. However, both the new Delhi and Washington could not make a trade agreement and led Trump to bring 50% tariff to Indian exports.
India’s Modi met with Chinese President Xi Jinping at the SCO summit in Tianjin between August 31 and September 1, and both sides confirmed the importance of being a partner, not competitors.
“Improving relations with India is very important. It allows Indian production to reach the extremely critical intellectual property it needs to industrialize and increase the production of India.” He said.
“However, in the long run, the United States loses the propaganda war to paint China as a problem.
– Evelyn Cheng from CNBC contributed to this report.
