US President Donald Trump left for the US on 30 July 2025 from a 4 -day Scotland tour. Meanwhile, he spoke to reporters in Air Force One and answered questions related to tariffs. Speaking especially on questions related to India, he said that India has been a good friend, but he imposes more tariffs on America than in almost any other country. You cannot do this. When asked if it is possible to impose 20% -25% tariff on India? So Trump replied to me. However, he also said that no final decision has been taken so far.

The statement from US President Donald Trump came at a time when talks are going on between India and the US about the trade agreement before the August 1 deadline, but so far no concrete results have been achieved. The Trump administration wants to bring tariff rates to countries around the world under the “Reciprocal Tariffs” i.e. mutual tariff policy. On July 23, Trump also said that America will not keep the tariff less than 15% for any country. They allege that economies like India impose more charges on American products, while the American market is open to them. Under this policy, countries like India are considered to be the United Stating Partner of America, until they cut the tariff.

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Negotiations between India and America continue
The Government of India is trying to compromise before the deadline of August 1. The Indian delegation led by Rajesh Aggarwal has completed a 5 round of talks in Washington in July. This conversation lasted for four days, but there is no success. Agriculture, automobile, digital business were important in the issue of negotiations. According to PTI, those who participated in the conversation on behalf of the US informed that the next round of talks is likely to be after August, ie after the deadline is over.

What does Indo-US trade stress mean?
The relations between India and the US are strategically strong, but there has been a long tension on the trade front.
The potential impact of Trump’s warning may have in many areas, which is as follows-

• Pressure on Indian exporters will increase (especially steel, aluminum, textile fields.
• Bilateral differences over IT services and data policy can be deeper.
• Strategic partnership such as defense and quad cooperation may be affected.

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Trump Tariff: US President Donald Trump’s government on Wednesday sent letters to American trading partners in Asia, Africa and Europe at new tariff rates. In this way, the process of imposing tariffs on imports from almost every country in the world continued. The new tariff is going to be implemented from 1 August.

Trump sent letters to seven countries

The Philippines is the largest trading partner in America among the seven countries who have been sent letters at new tariff rates on Wednesday. Last year, $ 14.1 billion goods were sent to the US from here. However, this figure is lower than other trading partners of America like China and European Union. Let us know that on Wednesday, the tariff rates on many countries on the countries that Trump have imposed tariffs are similar to the tariff imposed on the occasion of ‘Liberation Day’ in April. However, some changes have been made.

These countries get relief

Trump has increased the tariff rate for the Philippines from 17 percent to 20 percent, while the tariff on Moldova has reduced the tariff from 31 percent to 25 percent, 39 percent on Iraq to 30 percent, the tariff on Sri Lankan exports has reduced the tariff to 30 percent. Apart from this, Trump has put 30 percent on Algeria, 25 percent on Brunei and 30 percent on Libya. Earlier, Trump also announced to impose 25 percent tariffs on Japan and South Korea on Monday.

A letter means a deal

In the cabinet meeting on Tuesday, Trump had said that the letter sent on his behalf about the tariff is in exchange for negotiations on compromises from many countries. Trump said, “I just want to tell you that a letter means a deal. We cannot meet with 200 countries … You have to do it in a more common way. ”

The process of sending letters at the new tariff rate began when Trump signed an executive order on Monday, with an officially postponed date on the date of applying reciperook tariff with 10 to 50 percent tariffs on exports of about 60 business partners.

Trump had announced to put a recipe for some time from 9 April, after which the President suspended it till 9 July and then Monday’s order extended its deadline till 1 August.

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