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With 25 % and competitor like Indonesia and Vietnam with 19 % tarrift plus both nations can export to West Coas US much cheaper route, then pretty meaningless to say adding more tarrif to India will provide more money to US. Importer just switch to other nation products with cheaper tarrift

And with 50 % tarrift, it is already an embargo
By leveraging high tariffs and other sweeping measures against India, the United States is driving down the rupee and draining its foreign-exchange reserves—laying the groundwork for a subsequent financial offensive aimed at an all-out financial harvest of India.
 
By leveraging high tariffs and other sweeping measures against India, the United States is driving down the rupee and draining its foreign-exchange reserves—laying the groundwork for a subsequent financial offensive aimed at an all-out financial harvest of India.

Unlike China, India doesnt rate much to US unless India open their aggricultural market. US only competitiveness is in agricultural and military and passenger planes only.

I would say Trump thinks more on trade and bring back US manufacturing. This is why investment pledge is even high for small countries like Malaysia with 70 billion investment in US and 150 billion USD buying US goods

As I posted about week ago, Trump getting embolden after successful trade deal with early nations (4 nations including Indonesia)

India goods can be replaced by others as well.
 
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As they said, half traffic cost will be going to USA business.
 
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... We should always find ways to increase consumer base to that extent, that no other country should bully us like US doing now. ...
You need a constant flow of American dollars for that. Even China with it's $19 trillion economy has been trying for a decade and has not achieved that

... We should also find ways to self sufficient, a hard lesson now GoI learned now. ...
No such thing. India was the only country to announce it will not replace the dollar as soon as Donald Trump was sworn in.
 
I always vouched India to have US type of consumption based economy over China's export oriented, that's because US knows that its capacity to consume irrespective of cost will always put others in their mercy.

We should always find ways to increase consumer base to that extent, that no other country should bully us like US doing now.

We should also find ways to self sufficient, a hard lesson now GoI learned now.



rather than downsizing I will recommend diversify the area of exposure i.e., keep trade with US steady but find new countries and areas to export goods.
What is this? How can you consume anything irrespective of cost? Who will give freebies for consumption? There is always a limit of how much forex one has. In case of USA, there is a limit on how much others are willing to invest (buy USD bonds) in USA
 
Boeing have a LONG line of people waiting for it's airliners, they can now jump the line and will pay for the privilage.

Now once you play this game with Trump, imagine what the US will do to your precious IT services and who will be hurt harder.....
Remember that USA needs foreign currencies as its debt is piling up and very few are now willing to get more dollar bonds. This is why USA is going berserk. So, the long line of western customers won't do much here. It needs countries outside of western sphere who will buy its goods. Western countries are anyways puppets who will just hand over money at one or other pretexts like sanctions, LNG etc
 
You need a constant flow of American dollars for that. Even China with it's $19 trillion economy has been trying for a decade and has not achieved that


No such thing. India was the only country to announce it will not replace the dollar as soon as Donald Trump was sworn in.
No major country, whether China, Russia or India wants to replace dollars as it is not favourable to them in long term. Instead it is better to use dollar's openness and make the most out of it by undervaluing one's currency
 
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No major country, whether China, Russia or India wants to replace dollars as it is not favourable to them in long term. Instead it is better to use dollar's openness and make the most out of it by undervaluing one's currency
Who told you that Russia and China don't want to replace the dollar especially when China has been encouraging and increasing its lending of yuan all over the world?

Pakistan currently holds 30 billion Yuans and has requested another 10 billion Yuans.
 
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What is this? How can you consume anything irrespective of cost? Who will give freebies for consumption? There is always a limit of how much forex one has. In case of USA, there is a limit on how much others are willing to invest (buy USD bonds) in USA

does that rule apply to Indians who are .buying Gold ?

Indians have a notion that savings is most important and then comes Gold which overrides concept of savings. Indian will prefer to investing on Gold rather than on securities and we need to change that.

If you just recall you memory, our household use to have items older than us, which use to be durable, sturdy and rigid. Then came tsunami of cheap Chinese fancy items which replaced our most reliable items from our kitchens.

Every Indians dreams to have a house, bike & car in his life time, I suggest GoI to create space for such startups which fill in the area's wherein such needs are fulfilled by imported items.

Eg : VB replacing old trains - people are willing to pay more for facilities and GoI should let them have it.
 
Indians don't have a choice.

The more overtures they make to China the weaker they will appear. Indian hegemonic designs over the subcontinent are over.

I think after sindoor, both China and US know india is at best the "Italians on our side", so they change their policy accordingly.

And india media and modi's stupid propaganda make the situation even worse.

It seems that indians never learn that what you cannot be won on the battlefield can never be won at the negotiation table/propaganda machine.
 
Naaa--- I think some thing might be seriously off with US policy this time. Enough disturbance for a global concern.

Remember one quarter your factory output goes down you're supposed to start firing people. Now Trump's antics have been going on for almost 6 months.
Despite all the posturing the reduced orders from US companies will start forcing Chinese factories to fire people by their hundreds of thousands soon.

Sure- saner brain might take control later but in the interim it is massive chaos. China is headed there. India might be headed there to a smaller extent.


It's a shame. The reality is that China has seen a significant increase in orders in recent months.

Exports in the first five months of 2025 reached 10.67 trillion CNY (1.5 trillion USD), a 7% increase. Chinese factories are hiring workers en masse, not laying them off.








You need to understand one thing. The total amount of goods consumed worldwide each year doesn't change much, and neither does total industrial capacity. When global trade is in chaos, China, with its superior logistics and integrated industrial chains, will undoubtedly benefit the most.
 
India - once the aspiring Big Brother of the region has been reduced to the red light district whore, dashing from one Sugar Daddy to another in desperation.
 
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