Donald Trump's decision, who signed a regulation introducing an additional 25 % duty for the import of Indian goods, is “extremely unfortunate” – says Delhi.
The ministry emphasizes in a statement that India will take all necessary steps to defend the interests of the state, whose decisions regarding oil imports are dictated by market reasons and the need to ensure the energy security of the population of a country of 1.4 billion.
Reuters reminds that together with other tariffs applied by Trump on India announced on Wednesday, the new duties will make it Some Indian products will be surviving at 50 percent. The American duties are expected to seriously hit some sectors of the Indian economy and limit the export of such goods as textiles, precious stones and jewelry.
The new duties are to come into force after 21 days, i.e. August 27. This means that from that time almost all goods imported from India will cover 50 percent. at stake or larger.
The Trump administration previously carried out five rounds of commercial negotiations with India; However, these conversations stuck in a stinking point, because the disputed issue that failed to solve is access to the Indian agricultural product market.
Trump's decree was published a few hours after the end of the envoy of President Steve Witkoff in Moscow.
Trump previously threatened that if Russia did not agree to the “ending of killing”, he would apply secondary duties on your buying Russian energy raw materials. Although he originally announced that they would be 100 percent, on Wednesday he claimed that he did not talk about any rates.
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Since Russia, India's full -size invasion of Ukraine has become one of the greatest importers of Russian oil. According to the Reuters agency, in 2025 they increased the import of this raw material by 1 percent. Compared to 2024 and bring an average of 1.75 million barrels a day. Russia became the main source of raw material for India, despite the fact that before the war there was only a fraction of deliveries to this country.
