U.S. President Donald Trump on Wednesday (August 6, 2025) slapped a further 25% tariff on items coming from India as penalty for New Delhi’s continued buying of Russian oil.
Mr. Trump signed an government order imposing the extra tariff lower than 14 hours earlier than his preliminary tariffs have been to come into impact.
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After the order, the whole tariff on Indian items, barring a small exemption listing, will probably be 50%.
While the preliminary responsibility turns into efficient on August 7, the extra levy will come into impact after 21 days.
The transfer comes after Mr. Trump on Tuesday (August 5, 2025) mentioned India has not been an excellent buying and selling companion and warned of elevating the tariffs “very substantially” over the subsequent 24 hours over India’s buy of Russian oil.
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“With India, what people don’t like to say about India, they’re the highest tariff nation. They have the highest tariff of anybody. We do very, very little business with India because their tariffs are so high,” Mr. Trump mentioned in an interview with CNBC Squawk Box.
“India has not been a good trading partner, because they do a lot of business with us, but we don’t do business with them. So we settled on 25% (tariff), but I think I’m going to raise that very substantially over the next 24 hours, because they’re buying Russian oil. They’re fuelling the war machine. And if they’re going to do that, then I’m not going to be happy,” he added.
