India denied the news of the media that the new Delhi had suspended their conversations about the purchase of weapons, including new weapons and aircraft over Trump tariffs, calls them “false and devised”.
In his statement, officials of the Ministry of Defense stated that India would not stop any interviews and the award of public defense contracts follow existing procedures.
The story of Reuters about India, which will stop shopping from the US, is false and invented, said the head of the Ministry of Defense Livemint.
“Reports of India, which will stop interviews related to defense with the US, are false and invented,” the officials said.
“It is clear that different cases of public procurement are followed by existing procedures,” they added.
What did the message say?
The exclusive report published on Friday by Reuters claimed that India had laid its plans to obtain new American weapons and aircraft that quoted three official sources.
The report called it the “first specific sign of dissatisfaction” expressed by India after American tariffs deposited by President Donald Trump.
Trump’s tariffs in India doubled to 50 percent – the highest in the world – when he quoted the ongoing purchase of the new Delhi oil from Russia.
The report said that the Minister of Defense Rajnath Singh was supposed to go to Washington next week to announce several arms purchases, but “this trip was canceled”.
It claimed that with the feeling of an official, that the written instructions “were not given to suspend shopping”. The report said India gave it the opportunity to quickly reverse the course, although so far there has not been “at least no move forward for now”.
“Reuters first reports that discussions on Indian purchases of Stryker combat vehicles made by General Dynamics Land Systems and Javelin Anti -tank missiles developed by Raytheon and Lockheed Martin were suspended because of tariffs,” he said.
India has strongly responded to 50 % of Trump’s tariffs, but has not yet taken any retaliation. The Ministry of External Affairs has described US tariffs as “unfair” because Trump doubled it by 50 percent in the purchase of Russian oil at the beginning of this week.
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