U.S. reciprocal tariffs: U.S. President Donald Trump described India as “very, very difficult”, announcing a 26% “discount price tariff” on it, half of New Delhi’s 52% tax on U.S. goods.
Trump announced reciprocal tariffs on countries that impose fees on U.S. goods, which he said on Wednesday, April 2, 2025, would be remembered forever because the American industry was reborn that day and the fate of the United States was recycled.
Speaking at the White House Rose Garden, the U.S. President said: “This is Liberation Day, and we have been waiting for a long day. On April 2, 2025, with the day when the American industry is reborn, the fate of the United States is recycled and we are starting to make the United States rich, making it rich, kind, kind.”
In a nearly hourly speech at Rose Garden late Wednesday afternoon, Trump listed various countries from around the world, as well as the tariffs they charged on American products, saying: “For decades, our country has been robbed, plundered, raped and plundered by nearby and enemies, and Jobs.
Trump has added “historical executive orders” to factory and auto workers and his cabinet members, closely following reciprocity tariffs on countries around the world. “Reciprocity. It means they do it to us, we do it to them. It’s very simple. There’s nothing simpler than that,” Trump said to the people attending the event.
“Let me provide only some examples of vicious attacks that our workers encounter. The United States only charges a 2.4% tax rate on motorcycles in other countries. Meanwhile, Thailand and other countries charge higher rates, such as 60%. India charges 70% charges, Vietnamese charges 75% charges, and Thailand charges 75% charges, even higher than that.
Similarly, until today, the United States has charged a 2.5% tariff. Taking this into account -2.5 – 2.5%, for foreign-made cars. The EU charges us more than 10% tariffs…India charges 70% of charges, perhaps the worst limit, which is imposed by South Korea, Japan, Japan and many others.
When he announced the tariffs, Trump held a chart showing the imposition of US products by India, China, the EU, Japan, Taiwan, South Korea, South Korea, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka and Pakistan and the mutual taxation of these countries that will now have to pay.
The chart shows that India has charged 52% tariffs on U.S. tariffs, including currency manipulation and trade barriers, and the U.S. will now charge India a 26% “discount tariff” on India.
“India is very, very hard. Very, very hard. The Prime Minister just left. He is my good friend, but I said, ‘You are my friend, but you are not treating us.’ They charge us 52% of the fee, you have to understand that for several years and decades we have almost nothing, and until seven years ago, I started using China and we charged hundreds of billions of dollars in tariffs from China.”
Prime Minister Narendra Modi visited Washington, D.C. in February less than a month after Trump was sworn in, and began his second term as president at the White House.
In the past, he called India the “tariff king” and the “great abuser”. At a joint press conference with Modi at the White House on February 13, Trump said India “has very strong on tariffs”, “I don’t have to blame them, but it’s another way to do business. It’s hard to sell to India because they have trade barriers and very strong tariffs.”
Trump has said the U.S. trade deficit with India is close to $100 billion, and Modi agreed: “We will start negotiating to resolve the long-term differences that should be taken care of in the past four years, but they have not done so – in the U.S.-India trade relations, we also want to sign with others. We will work very hard.”
(with PTI input)
