US President Donald Trump said he understands tariffs “better” than anyone else. File. | Photo Credit: AP
India “kills” the USA tariffs, and the country now offers “no tariffs”, US President Donald Trump claimed that in the middle of the escalating tension in Delhi with Washington over shop and tariffs.
“They have tariffs against us. China that kills us tariffs. India is killing us tariffs. Brazil will kill us (with tariffs),” said Mr. Trump on Tuesday.
Trump claims that India offered to reduce tariffs to zero, says “but it’s too late”
Trump claims that India offered to reduce tariffs to zero, says “but it’s too late” | Video credit: Hindi
The US President said he understood tariffs “better” than anyone else. “I understood tariffs better than any human being in the world. And now with my tariffs they all dropped them. India was the most highly valuable nation … and you know what, no more tariffs in India. No tariffs,” he said.
“If I had no tariffs, they would never have done this offer. They would never make this offer. So you have to have tariffs. We’ll be economically strong,” Trump added.
With the decision of the Federal Court of Appeal that most of Mr. Trump’s tariffs deposited in countries around the world are illegal, the US President said that the court case is “sponsored” by other nations because they “use us”. “They won’t be used anymore,” he added.
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Later, speaking in the White House, Mr. Trump said that the US has been very well based on India, but the relationship has been unilateral for many years since Delhi charged Washington “great tariffs”.
“No, we get along very well with India,” he said in response to the question of whether some tariffs stored in India. He said that for many years the relationship between India and the US was “unilateral” and that changed when he took over the office.
“India charged us with huge tariffs, the highest in the world,” Trump said, adding that the US is so training with India.
“But they traded with us because we did not take them, foolishly, we did not charge them,” he said, adding that India pours his products to the US
“Send it, poured it into our country. Therefore it would not be made, which is negative, but we would not send anything because they charged 100% of tariffs,” he said.
The US President quoted an example of motorcycles Harley Davidson, saying that the company in India could not sell because the motorcycle was 200% tariff.
“So what happens?
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Published – 3 September 2025 21:20
