Trump once again targeted India for its high tariffs, signalling that negotiations for a trade deal may not yield concessions for New Delhi on sweeping levies such as reciprocal tariffs, which are set to take effect from April 2. He singled out the auto sector, where he said India charges tariffs of over a 100 per cent.

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Trump said “Other countries have used tariffs against us for decades and now its our turn to start using them against those other countries. On average, the European Union, China, Brazil, India, Mexico and Canada - have you heard of them? And countless other nations charge us tremendously higher tariffs than we charge them.” 

 He said “Whatever they tax us, we will tax them. If they use non-monetary tariffs to keep us out of their market, then we will use non-monetary barriers to keep them out of our market. There’s a lot of that too. They don’t even allow us in their market. We will take in trillions and trillions of dollars and create jobs like we have never seen before.” 

Mr. Trump is implementing a 25% additional tariff on imports from Canada and Mexico and a 10% additional tariff on imports from China.