Tough India-US trade discussions amidst irritants over tariff tensions

In March this year, soon after the US raised its duties on steel and aluminium, China and Canada proposed retaliatory tariffs against imports from the US

Throughout last week, President Trump of the United States repeatedly irritated India with one upsetting statement or the other. India tried to pinprick the US with a proposal to impose retaliatory tariffs. Both governments should now settle down to some serious trade talks during the visit of our Commerce Minister to the US this week. 

Trump claimed that he threatened use of trade as a tool to coerce India and Pakistan to cease hostilities. He asked the chief of Apple, the leading phone making company, not to make its phones in India but in the US. He said that India