The United States remains critical of India; the focus of reporting is that India focuses on “challenging “other heavy demands”
In the 2025 National Trade Estimate Report, the Office of the United States Trade Representative (USTR) raised concerns about India’s “opacity and unpredictable” quantitative restrictions, patent regimes and digital trade barriers such as data storage conditions. It said India has limited only some imports to the government’s trade monopoly, but has been approved by the cabinet in terms of timing and quantity of imports.
Some problems have been resolved
However, experts noted that most of the issues are duplication of early reports, while reports from equal taxation and World Trade Organization (WTO) disputes have been resolved.
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USTR also criticized India for its strict import licenses for remanufactured goods and medical equipment. In 2024, India stopped issuing licenses for refurbished U.S. medical equipment, affecting U.S. exports. Although Washington believes it is an unnecessary traditional Chinese tape festival, New Delhi is concerned that relaxing rules could lead to a large number of second-hand or low-quality products that could harm consumers and harm local industries.
The report marks a “very high” basic custom of drug formulation in India, including life-saving drugs and those listed on the World Health Organization’s list of essential medicines. “High tariff rates are a major obstacle to other agricultural supplies and processed foods such as poultry, potatoes, citrus, almonds, almonds, pecans, apples, apples, grapes, canned peaches, chocolate, cookies, cookies, frozen French fries and other prepared foods. The average is 113.1%, up to 300%. “In view of the huge differences between WTO binding and application rates, India has considerable flexibility at any time to change tariff rates on agricultural and non-agricultural products at any time, which brings huge uncertainty to American workers, farmers, ranchers and exporters,” it added.
Non-TV barriers
USTR said India has imposed import bans, restrictions, licensing requirements for certain commodities, mandatory quality control orders, customs barriers, price controls on medical equipment and mandatory domestic testing and certification specifications for equipment.
In the dairy industry, it said New Delhi imposes heavy requirements such as food-derived dairy products that are derived from animals that do not eat feed containing internal organs, feed of ruminants or pig origin, and exporting countries should be certified as these conditions.
“This requirement, along with the recent Dairy Health Certificate requirements, new facility registration requirements and high tariff rates, continues to hinder U.S. milk and dairy products exported to India, one of the largest dairy markets in the world,” it said. Washington continues to announce that India offers more opportunities to the Indian dairy market.
“In recent years, India has undergone many localized shutdowns of the internet,” it said, adding that these containment access to information and services have undermined business operations, destroyed free and open internet and hindered trade in the digital economy.
