US Trade Minister Howard Lutnick predicted that India would “say sorry” and try to conclude an agreement with President Donald Trump in a few months, because the nation navigates trade tensions and higher 50 % of tariffs on all Indian goods.
“So I think yes, in a month or two months I think India will be at the table and say that it is sorry, and will try to conclude an agreement with Donald Trump,” Lutnick said in an interview with Bloomberg.
“And it will be on the table of Donald Trump, how he wants to deal with (Narendra) modim, and we leave it to him. That’s why he’s a president,” Lutnick quoted like Bloomberg.
Comments of the US Trade Minister come in the middle of Trump and his helpers repeated the criticism of India buyers from Russia for discounted rates.
On Friday, Trump intensified his criticism of India and claimed that the US “lost India and Russia to the deepest, darkest, China”.
Especially in response to the question of the intelligence agency or the future of India-US’s business interviews in the middle of American tariffs in India, it seemed that the economic advisor of the White House Kevin Hassett reflects similar sentiments.
Hassett said that the business team and President Trump were disappointed by the Indian continuing funding of the Russian War in Ukraine. He expressed hope that the matter would soon be solved diplomatically with positive development.
Will we negotiate?
Asked if the US is willing to deal with India, Lutnick said, “We are always willing to speak.”
Lutnick claimed that countries like India and China sell US goods and eventually rely on the US market – call us “consumers of the world”.
“People have to remember that it is our economy of $ 30 trillion, which is the consumer of the world. Eventually everyone has to return to the customer, because we all know that the customer is always right,” Bloomberg Lutnicka quoted.
To justify his predictions that India is “at the negotiating table”, Lutnick even quoted an example of Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney and said he was elected “elbows with this term, which means let’s fight with America.”
Indian attitude toward Russian oil
Previously, on the day of Finance Minister Nirmal Sithaman, she explained that India would “undoubtedly buy Russian oil” and always speak on the basis of “what satisfactory” needs of the nation in the “conditions of rates, logistics”.
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