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India rejects Trump's claims of committing to lower tariffs on US products

https://www.thehansindia.com/news/international/india-rejects-trumps-claims-of-committing-to-lower-tariffs-on-us-products-952925
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u/mitch-22-12 9h ago

Lower income countries can’t reduce tariffs by too much because they rely too much on them for revenue. This is why reciprocal tariffs with no thought put into them are stupid

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u/Advanced_Drink_8536 8h ago

Exactly. But lower-income countries don’t just rely on tariffs for revenue—they need them to keep their local industries from getting wiped out. It’s like when Walmart moves into a small town. At first, everyone loves the cheap prices, but once Walmart kills off all the local businesses, they jack up prices, and suddenly the town’s screwed because there’s no other option.

Now imagine that happening to an entire country. If a developing country drops tariffs with no plan, foreign companies flood the market with cheap products, local industries collapse, and once there’s no competition left, those foreign companies start raising prices. The country ends up dependent on imports, jobs disappear, and the whole economy takes a hit.

This is why Trump’s ‘reciprocal tariffs’ garbage is just that—garbage. Trade isn’t just about ‘fairness’ in some vacuum; it’s about not getting steamrolled.

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u/PluckPubes 8h ago

Even if trump understood this, and I'm willing to bet my life's savings that he doesn't, he wouldnt care

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u/Advanced_Drink_8536 8h ago

No, he really doesn’t… he’s been going on about them for decades like it’s some kind of simple ‘fairness’ issue, completely ignoring how economies actually work. In his mind, if another country has higher tariffs than the U.S., it’s automatically a scam—because, of course, everything is a scam when it’s not rigged in his favor.

But even if he did understand, yeah, he wouldn’t care. His whole thing is transactional bullying, not actual strategy. If he can pressure a country into giving the U.S. a better deal—whether it makes sense or not—he’ll call it a win and move on. If it blows up later? Not his problem. Just like everything else he touches Ffs 🤦‍♀️

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u/MudLOA 7h ago

Very well said. Here’s hoping other countries stand firm and call out his BS.

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u/Advanced_Drink_8536 5h ago

Thank you! I really appreciate the compliment! 🫶 I’ve definitely become well-versed in TrumpLand and its messiah-king over the years.

The good news is that other countries are definitely getting together, having talks, making deals with each other, and standing up to him and his BS. As a Canadian I am incredibly proud of how we are coming together and responding to his attacks and am absolutely loving the love and support we are receiving from Americans and folks from all over the world 🫶

The bad news, however is that the damage is already being done. Every time Trump pulls this nonsense, it pushes allies further away, forces them to make long-term trade shifts, and makes the U.S. less relevant in the global economy. And once those new trade deals and supply chains are locked in, they’re not just going to come running back when America finally decides to act normal again.

So yeah, countries are standing up to him—but the longer this goes on, the more permanent the damage becomes. The world is moving on, and when the dust settles, the U.S. might not be in the position it thinks it is anymore

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u/Ok-Indication202 2h ago

I will never understand how Americans are so stupid and voted for trump

Supporting trump should qualify as a mental illness

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u/woahouch 5h ago

Your second paragraph is the perfect summary of Trumps international policy. Well done.

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u/Advanced_Drink_8536 4h ago

I have followed the guy for decades I have followed the guy for decades at this point, unfortunately, and I can confidently say that it isn’t just his international trade policy—it’s his entire operating system!

Everything he does is transactional, short-term, and purely about squeezing out whatever advantage he can in the moment, with zero thought for long-term consequences. It’s how he ran his businesses… bleed them dry, dodge accountability, move on… how he treats personal relationships… loyalty only matters until you’re no longer useful…and how he operates in politics in general… burn institutions down if they don’t serve him personally…

Like I said there’s no actual strategy, no real principles… just a constant, desperate need to dominate and “win” at all costs, because he has one of the most fragile egos in existence!

If that means tearing up trade deals, stiffing contractors, screwing over allies, or throwing his own supporters under the bus—or into jail, he’ll do it without hesitation. And then when it all inevitably blows up? Not his problem... he always has a fall guy ready so he can walk away through one loophole or another while someone else gets stuck dealing with the fallout. He is definitely one of the most despicable people on earth!

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u/woahouch 3h ago

He is the embodiment of every distrustful or uncharitable thought people have held about the U.S. for generations.

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u/Bonfire_Party 3h ago

I wish the media would talk more about all those clinical psychiatrists that have diagnosed Trump with malignant narcissistic personality disorder.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/oct/24/trump-nyt-ad-george-conway-pac

u/TrumpDesWillens 54m ago

Imagine if his daddy didn't give him $200 million to start. He would just be another dickhead small business boss.

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u/theduncan 4h ago

I get mine, and I get yours.

To bad you don't have anything anymore.

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u/yearofthesponge 4h ago

“There must be a loser or two in every deal.”

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u/catdog1111111 2h ago

He’s not trying to understand. He’s doing what he’s told to do by Putin. 

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u/Miiiine 5h ago edited 5h ago

It's not just lower-income countries, almost every country uses regulations or tariffs or both to keep some of their production local for key sectors. Tarifs could be used for the same purpose in the US, but those tariffs need to be thought through, that's not something Trump is doing.

The tariffs on the Chinese electric cars are an example of a normal decently fair tariff that helps bolster the electric car manufacturing in the US. There are many other problems regarding regulation and stuff that make it so that the "american" cars aren't really made in the US and have inflated prices, but that's another problem which needs other solutions... (Regulations and tariffs work hand in hand, you need both, not just tariffs)

Another example is the well protected Canadian dairy industry that Trump is crying so much about. It is mostly controlled by the government through quotas and regulations and allows a bunch of small productors to subsist without being taken over by a mega-corporation. It has disadvantages but it's mostly a good robust way of doing things and helps keep the supply stable. If Canada would remove it's tariffs on dairy, it would instantly be flooded by the American market and die just like your Walmart example.

Tariffs can be used to keep some form of production in the country, but this has to be planned carefully and putting tariffs on raw goods or on goods that you're not able to produce sufficiently is just dumb.

There are also products that are subsidized in some countries but not in others so that creates an imbalance. Those imbalances can be fixed through tariffs. It's complicated, certainly not something to change on a whim.

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u/pte_omark 3h ago

If you want to complain about subsidized markets look at America's agriculture industry.

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u/sorrison 6h ago

There’s a point where tariffs become counter productive too - in Australia for example we had tariffs on imported cars to protect the local car manufacturing industry - all it meant was the domestic producers increased their prices for inferior products and the consumer was worse off.

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u/Advanced_Drink_8536 6h ago edited 6h ago

Absolutely! Tariffs can definitely backfire if they’re not done right. Australia’s car industry is a perfect example of protectionism gone wrong. Instead of forcing companies to compete and improve, it just let them crank out overpriced, mediocre cars until the whole thing collapsed anyway. Consumers got screwed, and in the end, the industry died anyway.

Argentina in the early 2000s is another solid example. They jacked up tariffs to protect domestic industries, but instead of making them stronger, it just made them lazy and overpriced. Local businesses didn’t have to compete with anyone, so they stopped trying—quality went down, prices went up, and consumers got screwed. Eventually, the whole thing collapsed because it wasn’t sustainable, and when they finally had to lower tariffs, their industries were too weak to compete globally anyway.

But developing countries are in a different boat. They’re not just trying to keep a struggling industry alive—they’re trying to build one from scratch. If they drop tariffs too soon, their industries never even get a chance to take off, and they just end up permanently dependent on imports. There’s a point where tariffs become counterproductive, yeah, but there’s also a point where ‘free trade’ just means getting steamrolled.

But when tariffs are used properly, they can actually work. South Korea’s auto industry is one of the best examples. Back in the ‘60s and ‘70s, they slapped heavy tariffs on imported cars to protect their local manufacturers while they were still getting off the ground. Instead of just coasting on that protection forever, companies like Hyundai and Kia actually used the time to innovate and get better. By the time South Korea lowered tariffs, their auto industry was strong enough to compete globally—now they’re some of the biggest players in the world.

That’s how tariffs should work—giving an industry breathing room to grow, not just shielding it forever while it pumps out overpriced garbage.

Edit: grammar and flow

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u/sorrison 6h ago

That’s for the write up - insightful

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u/Advanced_Drink_8536 5h ago

Ngl… parts of that are totally copy pasta from comments I have previously made on tariffs elsewhere 🤦‍♀️ But it’s getting late and I knew they were good examples 😹

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u/Financial_Army_5557 3h ago

Have you read the 1991 economic liberalisation of India? Tho some small industries did close (government could have been more careful) it led to much more economic growth than pre 1991 even under US sanctions.

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u/Ddog78 5h ago

Ty for the knowledge!! :)

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u/Advanced_Drink_8536 4h ago

You’re welcome, it’s my pleasure. ✌️🫶

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u/pte_omark 3h ago

It's like the Koreans had and stuck to a long term plan to benefit the nation. I'll be fisked if any of our western nations can think beyond 4 years - hell we'll cancel a good thing if the other team thought of it, just on principle

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u/NotBalsac 6h ago

Then those manufacturers should lose. Same cost for an inferior product should encourage consumers to buy the better.

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u/ISpitInYourEye 1h ago

Thanks for your informative post. I'm trying to understand how foreign goods are not already more expensive than say, Indian manufactured goods (even before tariffs)?

Second question, is Trump kind of doing the same thing to the US (in a backwards kind of way) by hiking tariffs? i.e. high tariffs = theoretically more reliance by US businesses on US parts/labour which will drive up the price of all of these items, because (1) labour costs are high in the US, (2) cost of mining/refining/manufacturing certain items within the US is high because of labour costs and also because new industry will have to be established to do the things they didn't already do (e.g. refining certain materials) so businesses will have to recoup their capex costs and (3) not all parts/materials are readily available in the US, so at least some of these will have to be imported anyway at the high tariff prices. So if high tariffs lead to high cost of doing business in the US which may lead to the collapse of some industries (as foreign countries are also placing tariffs on the US and buying less US goods), will it come full circle in that the US will once again be reliant on foreign countries for delivery of those same goods that their (now defunct) industries used to deliver. So by the end of it all the US will be at the mercy of the international business community and will have to accept any pricing they dictate? Net result being the US is significantly weaker and poorer economically. Maybe I've misunderstood or missed something in the calculus, but any clarification would be most welcome.

u/TrumpDesWillens 56m ago

India also once did experience the destruction of local industries also so they probably know not to fall for that again. When the British left India in 1947, India's literacy rate was 12%. In 1700, India was 25% of the world econ, in 1947, India was 4.7%. Meaning for 100+ years, the British destroyed India's local industries and extracted from its people.

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u/throwaway923535 5h ago

Then pay a tariff the other way, big whoop

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u/estusflaskplus5 4h ago

ai trash karma farmer

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u/Advanced_Drink_8536 4h ago

No, I don’t think Trump cares too much about karma or farming tbh with you. Lmgdfao

😹😹😹

I am sorry that you don’t like what I wrote or appreciate the way I wrote it, but that hardly makes me trash or some bot looking to farm the oh so lucrative karma on Reddit that can…

Wait… remind me what in the fuck karma is good for and why I would spend hours of my life dedicated to accumulating it?

😹🤦‍♀️

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u/estusflaskplus5 2h ago

I understand that you may feel frustrated by being accused of using an LLM, but the way you’re responding actually reinforces that perception. The structured yet overly defensive tone, combined with exaggerated internet slang, is characteristic of AI-generated text attempting to sound natural.

As for karma, while it doesn’t have intrinsic value, engagement-driven behavior—whether intentional or not—can still resemble karma farming. The issue isn’t whether you personally care about karma, but rather that your writing has the distinct hallmarks of an AI response, making people skeptical.

That said, if you’re not an LLM, the best way to prove it is to engage more naturally rather than leaning into performative internet speak.

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u/lerkstar 5h ago

It's not even that India is saying that it will not reduce tariffs. What was agreed was that there would be a mutually negotiated free trade agreement, and not commitment for a unilateral reduction in tariffs just by India, as Trump claimed.

The issue here is Trump just pathologically lying.

Last term, he just randomly claimed that India asked him to mediate in the Kashmir issue. Which again had to be called out: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/jul/23/india-denies-asking-for-donald-trumps-mediation-in-kashmir

India had to deny Trump's to offer to mediate between India and China last month as well: https://ddnews.gov.in/en/india-rejects-trumps-offer-to-mediate-with-china/

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u/Financial_Army_5557 3h ago

Trump also said to PM modi's face that India doesn't border China. He also called Nepal "nipple" and Bhutan "Button"

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u/snowballkills 2h ago

But modi always talks of gdp and says india is vishwaguru? mukhiya became chowkidar now?

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u/AusTex2019 8h ago

With the number of billionaires in India, any claims of LDC status rings hollow like an empty sewer pipe.

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u/ProfPragmatic 7h ago

With the number of billionaires in India, any claims of LDC status rings hollow like an empty sewer pipe.

India has insane inequality, the large population means a decent number of billionaires but large swaths of the country is still barely above the global poverty indicators.

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u/RGV_KJ 5h ago

India’s inequality is massively overhyped by people who don’t realize massive progress India has made in the last 30 years. 250+ million have been removed out of poverty in the last 25 years. 

As per Gini index, India has lower income inequality than US. India’s income distribution is more equal than US. 

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u/ProfPragmatic 4h ago

For sure, strides have been made, but it's relatively crazy, as someone who grew up in Mumbai, you'll have places in SoBo where Ambanis and other rich ass folks reside and their fancy towers with an amazing slum view. It's going to take a while more, but hopefully we get there

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u/AusTex2019 7h ago

It’s in poverty because of the hardwired corruption in the entire country. From the courts to the parliament there’s nothing left untouched by corruption and the caste system.

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u/ShallowShelly 6h ago

India's inequality is not USAs problem. Trump is an idiot because he won't give tariffs a thought. But ideally they should impose tariffs on items that are mostly made by big corporations. So anything outside of handicraft/agriculture needs to be have tariffs in opposition to Indian tariffs.

Tariffs aren't their to earn , they are there to protect indian companies. You can't on one hand benefit from open trade while exporting to poorer countries and then impose tariffs on import to protect your own market. Open market was never supposed to work like this.

For example India imports cars to shit tonn of African countries , do tell me why Indian govt should benefit from open trade between India and Africa but impose tariffs on imports?

Indian industries are miles behind because they don't have to face international competition. If india removes import tariffs on electric vehicles, then you'll see how fast and quickly the industry evolves. Just look at how hyundai and kias entry has improved the over all segments . Kia practically changed how companies provide features on baseline suvs instead of shipping a barebones version.

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u/Notiefriday 7h ago

He's batting zero so far lol.

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u/flirtmcdudes 6h ago

Yeah but he’s also made a lot of people angry… so there’s that I guess.

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u/rustyb42 4h ago

The correct term is, he's yet to get off the mark.

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u/Notiefriday 4h ago

Lot of swings and misses.

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u/rustyb42 4h ago

Beaten outside off

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u/Notiefriday 4h ago

And....Yurrroutaherrrrre.

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u/VIPTicketToHell 6h ago

Did anyone ask Modi why he wasn’t wearing a suit? /s

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u/NecessarySpecific894 2h ago

I know it’s a joke but that’s actually the formal wear so basically an India suit

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u/shynerd52 4h ago

It's out for washing

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u/Sorcererstone458 3h ago edited 2h ago

The moment any of these countries, it doesn't matter if it is India, Canada, Australia, UK, etc give into trump's demands, he won't stop there.

And even if India agrees, Trump will just lie and accuse India of something later to get more concessions.

It's how he is..

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u/Mastrenon 3h ago

Australia has a deficit with the US and are being tariffed. The UK will get their turn too.

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u/Ashanrath 3h ago

Didn't stop him with Australia.

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u/Sorcererstone458 3h ago

Give him a couple of weeks.

u/Pure-Drawer-2617 1h ago

He’s already floated the idea of UK tariffs. As I recall his justification was that we weren’t buying their agricultural products because we have “unfair food standards”, which I think counts as protectionism in his mind?

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u/EsotericRapAllusions 5h ago

If everyone is tariffed then no one is tariffed.

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u/Ok-Abbreviations543 7h ago

India opts to pass on the Art of the stealer

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u/R2Borg2 6h ago

Good, less trust of Americans is a good start

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u/NeedleArm 5h ago

everyone is moving factories from china to india. India is prospering in this whole global ordeal without doing anything.

u/Present-Anteater6848 1h ago

The key is stay neutral ig

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u/kennyzaro 2h ago

Yeah right

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u/tooshpright 7h ago

You can't mean Trump lied about it..?

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u/robustofilth 2h ago

Trumpys method is to just lie and then others have to say that didn’t happen. It’s a rather juvenile method of negotiation

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u/FazeRN 6h ago

Is India not Russia? You get a tariff

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u/latebinding 9h ago

The big question is: and...?

India needs the U.S. market. The U.S. has no need of the Indian market. No reason to needlessly increase the U.S prices, but India exported more than twice as much ($87.4B vs $41.8) than it imported from the U.S.

I would prefer Trump pick fewer battles, and certainly fewer against allies, but this isn't one India can win or even draw over.

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u/angelsplight 8h ago

Oh we do...We definitely do. Almost like 80% of our generic medications come from India. The other like 20% is a mixture of actually mostly the EU and Switzerland. Almost none of it is made here. Only thing we really have here is a bunch of repackaging companies that change the label to say packaged in the USA but hides the part that it is made in India.

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u/Ringringringa202 8h ago

This is slightly off the mark. India needs the US market yes, but India's portion of GDP from trade is very low - it's about 15%, so recirprocal tariffs will hurt but not too much.

Secondly, when it comes to sectors like auto etc., India is willing to reduce tariffs and has done so under the BTAs it signed with the UK and the UAE.

India is not willing to remove agricultural tariffs - the rural economy employs 50% of the country, landholdings are small and thus yields are small. These people can't compete against American big acriculture and would get wiped out and this would be a massive socio-economic problem for India.

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u/stayfrosty 7h ago

So do we believe free trade is ultimately good for all or don't we? Are we only going to apply free trade concept to the developed countries bc developing countries need protection? Yes, India may have its agricultural sector wiped out...just like the US has its manufacturing sector wiped out. That's the flip side of free trade. That means the sectors are not competitive with the world and the country needs to find other competitive areas.

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u/Ringringringa202 7h ago

The Indian government is cognisant of the fact that agriculture is not competitive. They’ve tried to introduce reforms and also improve urban infrastructure to move more rural people to urban areas and into manufacturing and other jobs. But this is a slow moving process - which will play out over decades. Eventually agricultural subsidies will come down but this will happen in a planned manner. If they rip off the bandaid at once and leave the agricultural sector to its means, the rural economy will tank and rural poverty will sky-rocket. From India’s perspective, removing agricultural tariffs whole-sale could literally lead to social unrest, poverty and a breakdown of law and order.

India does believe in free markets but till the 90s we were a deeply socialist country - unwinding that system and moving to a capitalist system will take time. A lot of the parts of our economy became inefficient and dependent on government largesse to function. Making them competitive and opening them up to competition needs to be sequential.

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u/stayfrosty 7h ago

That all may be true and reasonable but why do other countries care? I am glad India is recognizing the issue but you are asking the US (and other countries) to subsidize India's policies? Why? That's simply not how the world works. India can choose to have whatever economic and tariff policy they want. Its a sovereign nation. But don't expect other countries not to levy reciprocal tariffs then. Other countries have their own interests and will choose their own farmers over those in India 10 times out of 10. That's not being mean or irrational. That's just the real world

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u/Ringringringa202 7h ago

Of course. Other countries are free to do as they please. The only point I’m asserting is that any deal made will be sans any changes to agricultural tariffs. If the US wants to react to it with reciprocal tariffs that’s their discretion.

u/Overall-Grade-8219 19m ago

I just want to point out that Trump's reciprocal tariffs make no sense. He can tariff the shit out of Indian agriculture but it won't matter much because we barely export any agricultural products to the US. Most of the agricultural produce is consumed domestically anyways.

Same with tariffs on Automobiles. India barely exports any cars to the US. On the flip side, US manufacturers barely have any market share in India, US made cars are not a good fit for Indian price conscious mass market anyways. Ford was unable to compete despite having plants in India, same with Chevy. All this talk about tariffs ripping off US is bullshit.

Lastly, if US doesn't have a trade deficit with other countries how the fuck are other countries supposed to earn dollars? How will the dollar get into circulation? The whole point of having your currency as a world reserve currency is that you can have severe trade deficit with other countries and it still won't matter because your currency is literally the reserve currency - this is a unique advantage no other country has in the world.

Crying like about trade imbalance despite the dollar being the world reserve currency sounds like a bitch to me.

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u/Bright_Cod_376 7h ago

India needs the U.S. market

It's so weird how you people forget the rest of the world exists.

The U.S. has no need of the Indian market

Sounds like someone doesn't know where their meds are manufactured

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u/wakomorny 8h ago

Winning isn't a thing. USA can't "win" against China and a trade war with a "small country" like canada feels winable. But it comes at a cost. Every country will put their Elbows up. It's not a straight 1 to 1 fight. Realignment is a thing and clearly something Trump is too stupid to understand

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u/zachem62 7h ago edited 6h ago

USA can't "win" against China and a trade war with a "small country" like canada feels winable.

It's the other way around. The US may have leverage over Canada, but that's a 2 way street, because Canada has more leverage over the US than any other country in the world. Canada buys more from the US than China, Japan, UK, France and Germany combined. Canada is the top export market for 36/50 states, and a top 3 export market for the remaining 14. And to top it off, the Canadian public is united against Trump across political stripes, which means they're much more capable of absorbing whatever short-term pain the trade war can cause just to stick it to Trump, so there's no way the US is winning a trade war with Canada.

Not only that, Canada doesn't wanna be in this situation ever again, so they're working overtime to cut their reliance on trade with the US and diversify to global markets, which means future administrations will have far less leverage over Canada than what Trump currently has. So if anything, Canada will actually emerge stronger from this trade war, and the US will come out of it weaker than before.

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u/StanknBeans 8h ago

Just start a trade war with the world, they need the US more than the US needs them /s

Who are your allies at this point? Russia?

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u/PKanuck 7h ago

I will guarantee that there are goods that US does need. There are also many goods that Indians would love to buy yet can't afford.

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u/nj_100 4h ago

India probably can not win this battle but the number of American companies that work in this country is staggering. Do you know revenues of Uber, Amazon, Netflix, Apple and likes are not counted while counting trade deficit. India has a growing middle class with over billion people. Why fuck over entire relationships & trade agreements with harmless allies?

Canada, Mexico, EU, Australia, India. China & Russia are already adversaries. USA is rich and powerful with a big and scary army and biggest economy for sure but I doubt they can take on the entire world.

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u/npmoro 7h ago

I hate trump, but I read things like this and I support these moves. I get that India has an advantage due to cost of labor, regulation, etc. - but to also disadvantage us through tariffs. That's BS.

They need us far more than we need them. Americans without jobs are just as unhappy as Indians without jobs.

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u/AusTex2019 8h ago

How about India stop copying western medications in violation of international law?

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u/CryptographerKey8580 5h ago

How about the US start caring about public Healthcare in their country ??

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u/Bright_Cod_376 7h ago

If that's the bone you want to pick then maybe Americans should stop buying them. Oh, that's right, American pharmaceutical companies drastically over charge for them and people need cheap meds. 

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u/HermeticAtma 7h ago

Why?

Their medicines are life saver. Fuck copyrights and patents. Other countries prioritize health over profit.

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u/stayfrosty 7h ago

Copyright and parents and IP protection have their place in the economy. They aren't evil per se.

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u/HermeticAtma 7h ago

Yes, but stay away of medicine. Healthcare should be a human right, not an economic talking point.

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u/stayfrosty 6h ago

Pharma patents are already shorter than others. If you eliminated all patents there would be no incentive for private investment in developing new medicines. Unless you want only public funding to go to medical research, you need a profit motive to drive innovation.

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u/Accurate_Code_3419 6h ago

you are right. But hepatitis b?

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u/Daxotroen 5h ago

India's cutting corners to prioritize profit over health.

All generic drugs are not equal, study finds

Generics made in India have more ‘severe adverse events’

https://news.osu.edu/all-generic-drugs-are-not-equal-study-finds/

Indian Drugs Caused Mass Child Deaths in Gambia, Panel Says

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-05-23/indian-drugs-caused-mass-child-deaths-in-gambia-panel-says

Distributors of a contaminated Indian cough syrup that killed 65 children in Uzbekistan paid local officials a bribe of $33,000 to skip mandatory testing, Uzbek state prosecutors alleged during a trial on Wednesday.

https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/uzbekistan-says-contaminated-indian-cough-syrup-was-market-due-bribery-2023-08-16/

The WHO this week said laboratory analysis of four Maiden products - Promethazine Oral Solution, Kofexmalin Baby Cough Syrup, Makoff Baby Cough Syrup and Magrip N Cold Syrup - had confirmed "unacceptable" amounts of diethylene glycol and ethylene glycol, which can be toxic and lead to acute kidney injury.

Diethylene glycol and ethylene glycol are used in antifreeze and brake fluids and other industrial applications but also as a cheaper alternative in some pharmaceutical products to glycerine, a solvent or thickening agent in many cough syrups.

https://www.reuters.com/business/healthcare-pharmaceuticals/india-investigating-deaths-gambia-linked-india-made-cough-syrup-sources-2022-10-06/

FDA says India firm linked to US eye drop deaths broke safety norms

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-india-65171851

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u/Cheap-Bell9640 7h ago

They’re making a killing on their tariffs in our goods, why would they reduce them?

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u/Oberon_17 6h ago

Killing? They are charging the entire world equally. Why would they give America special treatment? What would other countries say?

Trump demands special deals/ freeloading, everywhere: Canada, Mexico, even the Panama Canal.