{"id":71452,"date":"2025-02-22T02:07:01","date_gmt":"2025-02-22T02:07:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alertindianews.in\/?p=71452"},"modified":"2025-02-22T02:07:01","modified_gmt":"2025-02-22T02:07:01","slug":"want-to-be-fair-trump-vows-to-impose-reciprocal-tariffs-on-india-china","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alertindianews.in\/?p=71452","title":{"rendered":"“Want To Be Fair”: Trump Vows To Impose Reciprocal Tariffs On India, China"},"content":{"rendered":"

US President Donald Trump on Friday announced that he will soon impose reciprocal tariffs<\/a> on countries like India and China, asserting that the United States will charge the same tariffs these nations impose on American goods.<\/p>\n

Trump said, “We will soon impose reciprocal tariffs — they charge us, we charge them. Whatever a company or a country, such as India or China, charges, we want to be fair; hence, reciprocal.”<\/p>\n

He added, “We have never done that. We were getting ready to do it until Covid hit.”<\/p>\n

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#WATCH<\/a> | Washington | US President Donald Trump says, “… We will soon impose reciprocal tariffs\u2014they charge us, we charge them. Whatever a company or a country, such as India or China, charges, we want to be fair; hence, reciprocal. We have never done that. We were getting\u2026 pic.twitter.com\/8Q2XBETfxe<\/a><\/p>\n

\u2014 ANI (@ANI) February 21, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Last week, before his bilateral meeting with Prime Minister Narendra Modi<\/a>, Trump had commented on India’s tariff structure<\/a>, saying “they have the highest tariffs” and “it is a hard place to do business”.<\/p>\n

Trump made the remarks during a press conference in which he was asked about the meeting of Tesla CEO Elon Musk with PM Modi<\/a>.<\/p>\n

“They met. I assume he wants to do business in India. But India is a very hard place to do business in because of the tariffs. They have the highest tariffs… It’s a hard place to do business. I would imagine he met possibly because he is running a company, he is doing this as something that he has felt strongly about for a long time,” Trump said.<\/p>\n

Speaking on the issue of reciprocal tariffs<\/a>, Trump highlighted India’s past trade policies, citing the case of Harley-Davidson motorcycles as an example of how American companies have been forced to set up manufacturing units abroad to bypass exorbitant import duties.<\/p>\n

“Traditionally, India is right at the top of the pack pretty much. There are a couple of smaller countries that are actually more but India charges tremendous tariffs. I remember when Harley Davidson couldn’t sell their motorbikes in India because of the fact that in India – the tax was so high, the tariff was so high, and Harley was forced to build,” he had said, US Network Pool via Reuters reported.<\/p>\n

(Except for the headline, this story has not been edited by NDTV staff and is published from a syndicated feed.)<\/i><\/p>\n

\u200bBefore his bilateral meeting with Prime Minister Narendra Modi last week, Donald Trump had commented on India’s tariff structure, saying “they have the highest tariffs”.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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