US President Donald Trump once again defended the decision to impose 50 percent tariff on India. He said that America’s relations with India are very good. But for many years this relationship was unilateral, because India was imposing more tariffs on America. Trump refused to remove the tariff, giving the example of Harley Davidson motorcycle.
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US President Donald Trump was asked during a press conference at the White House whether he was considering removing some tariffs imposed on India? On this, he said that no, we have very good relations with India. For many years, relations between India and America were unilateral and after taking over, it changed.
Trump said that India is charging a lot of tariffs from us, which is the highest in the world. Therefore, America is not doing much business with India. But India was doing business with us, because we were not charging them. Because we were not charging a tariff with stupidity. They used to send a large part of everything they made to our country. So it was not made here, which is a negative thing.
Trump said that we were not sending anything to India because they were charging 100% tariffs from us. Giving an example of Harley Davidson motorcycle, Trump said that the company could not sell its motorcycles in India as there was 200% tariff on motorcycles. Harley Davidson went to India and built a motorcycle plant there and now he does not have to pay tariffs, it is the same as us.
The US President said that what we are doing is that thousands of companies are coming to America. We have factories of many car companies under construction here. She is coming from China, Mexico and Canada. She wants to build here for two reasons. First, they would like to stay here. And the second tariffs are providing them protection. Third, they want to avoid giving tariffs. When they make their cars here, they do not have to pay any tariff.
Trade and political tension
Trump imposed 25 percent tariff on India in July. After this, 25 percent secondary tariffs on Indian oil imports and 50 percent tariff on Indian goods were implemented from 27 August. This has negatively affected the ongoing trade talks between the two countries.