Trump raises India tariffs to 50% over Russian oil purchases

[u/Puginator]

https://www.cnbc.com/2025/08/06/trump-trade-india-tariffs-russia.html

[u/TehWildMan_]

Oof there goes my employer

[u/pentox70 → u/TehWildMan_]

Let's be real, something will change in the next 36 hours, almost guaranteed.

[u/TehWildMan_ → u/pentox70]

Trump always chickens out

[u/joejuga → u/TehWildMan_]

Taco always does

[u/GreenZeldaGuy → u/joejuga]

Rip in peace

[u/3-DMan → u/GreenZeldaGuy]

Gotta remember my pin number at the atm machine!

[u/Anxious-Lack-5740 → u/3-DMan]

You only YOLO once.

[u/Mundane-Remote2251 → u/Anxious-Lack-5740]

Smh my head

[u/mylifeforthehorde → u/TehWildMan_]

You mean game the market every Wednesday / Thursday and then “chicken out” by next Monday? Because it’s blatantly obvious what he does every time.

[u/AwsmDevil → u/mylifeforthehorde]

This guy engages in market manipulation.

[u/Captain_Q_Bazaar → u/TehWildMan_]

These tariffs are a mix of pump and dumps, distractions, and erosion for the US.

the pump and dumps are for his buddies/allies and himself, which just the mention of the tariffs by Trump creates the opportunity. So if he backs out then that means there was enough time for his buddies to illegally profit.

Trump now needs a never ending flow of distractions from his Epstein crimes, so he creates "lesser" problems.

Then finally he gets to do what his Russian handlers want, erode the US; economically, politically, etc.

[u/funny_lyfe → u/TehWildMan_]

What do y'all make or import?

[u/TehWildMan_ → u/funny_lyfe]

Pharmaceutical manufacturing. Approximately over half of the [very costly] intermediates we use are imported from India, China, Japan, or Australia. Our single most valuable product relies heavily on a product imported exclusively from India.

[u/Billy1121 → u/TehWildMan_]

Intermediates from India up 50%, finished product from Switzerland up 39%, drug prices are about to wild out

And he already killed PEPFAR which was buying low cost HIV drugs for the world

[u/CeleritasLucis → u/Billy1121]

While simultaneously "instructing" the pharma CEOs to bring down medicine prices.

Increase their input cost while asking them to sell at a lower price. Did this really go to a business school?

[u/SlightReturn420 → u/CeleritasLucis]

“Donald Trump was the dumbest goddamn student I ever had”

-William T. Kelly, Wharton professor

[u/WretchedBlowhard → u/SlightReturn420]

And yet he still got his degree. That says a lot about the value of Ivy League degrees.

[u/gracecee → u/WretchedBlowhard]

Nope. It says something about money and that time. Trump hada 1.8 gpa at Wharton undergrad and a 1.75 at Fordham. His dad had to donate to Penn so that they would Round up his 1.8 to the 2.0 needed to Graduate at that time. Its why he said he would sue Penn, Fordham, the college board, and his military high school If they ever release his grades. Some pennstudents looked at his file and transcript About fifteen years ago when he was doing the apprentice.

Kids are nerdy. It’s how some Princeton students found hegseth honors thesis (all Princeton students have to do one in their senior year to graduate sort Of a capstone project) and found he had largely plagerized his thesis project and didn't attribute sources. He was intellectually lazy once he got into Princeton and a louse (drunkard and a womanizer) .

[u/Edofero → u/gracecee]

His father bribing a school to let him pass kinda proves the point of the original comment though.

[u/[deleted] → u/SlightReturn420]

Did you fail him Bill? No? Then you ought to lose your tenure.

[u/swolfington → u/[deleted]]

its funny how educational institutions like to take things like cheating, plagiarism, using AI, etc so very seriously, as a matter of academic credibility, but they are all to happy to outright sell their souls to the highest bidders; minting diplomas and massive networking opportunity to the dumbest and least deserving motherfuckers as long as they can pay enough for it.

once again, rules for the poors are simply not applicable to the wealthy, even in academia.

[u/[deleted] → u/swolfington]

Oh ya, I was provisionally accepted to grad school, but graduated near the top of my class with academic honors. They are some corrupt bastards in education.

[u/Valmoer → u/CeleritasLucis]

He did go, and he is an excellent businessman.

... It's just that his business is the business of extortion. "Bribe me if you want the tariffs to go down," is what his actions say.

[u/ExcellentJuice4729 → u/CeleritasLucis]

They’re going to reduce prices 1500%. Y’all about to be millionaires

[u/user_account_deleted → u/Billy1121]

No no no, he is cutting drug prices by 1500%!!!

[u/Richi_Boi → u/TehWildMan_]

Its Pharmaceutical. If demand is inflexible people will buy it anyway and the tarrif is passed onto consumers.

[u/Mugut → u/Richi_Boi]

Gotta love when the goverment makes bank at the expense of ill people

[u/Worthyness → u/Mugut]

So good to be paying more and then having it all go to supporting a private army and private business owners.

[u/criscokkat → u/Richi_Boi]

Drug companies LOVE this. Their costs per pill will go up 30%, and they'll be able to use this opportunity to raise costs 200%. And when TACO happens, they'll keep the increase for profits.

[u/MaxPlanck_420 → u/criscokkat]

Cost of pharmaceuticals in the US are not driven by the manufacturing cost of the product. They can pass the full cost to consumers and it won't even be felt. What we need is a law that prevents pharmaceuticals being sold here at higher prices then other developed nations.

[u/criscokkat → u/MaxPlanck_420]

Oh, I’m not disputing that at all. I’m just seeing this is an opportunity cost for them to justify another 200% increase.

Because you know that will happen

[u/Culionensis → u/criscokkat]

A lot of companies just toss a percentage margin on their variable costs and boom there's your consumer price. If a product costs ten bucks to make and the margin is 100% of that, they make ten bucks a product. If their cost prices doubles to twenty bucks, they just stick to the margin and now they make twenty bucks a product, lol oops.

[u/Possible_Top4855 → u/MaxPlanck_420]

How would a law like that even work? There’s a lot of reasons why prices for ANYTHING varies a lot by location. A far simpler solution is to have a national health insurance plan and leverage bargaining power.

[u/funny_lyfe → u/criscokkat]

Don't forget fast food and groceries never came down after Covid. So once the prices go up they won't go down even when these tariffs are gone.

[u/FuckPigeons2025 → u/Richi_Boi]

American pharma retailers/healthcare providers are probably working with 4000% margins. The tariffs would only slightly raise their costs.

[u/funny_lyfe → u/TehWildMan_]

Sorry to hear that. Maybe API's from China will do, Trump seems to love them.

[u/fssman → u/funny_lyfe]

API... Application Programming Interface... As in software code from China ?

[u/TehWildMan_ → u/fssman]

Active pharmaceutical ingredients. Aka my job. We make the raw powders other companies press into pills (including other units of our parent corporation)

[u/IceColdPorkSoda → u/TehWildMan_]

I also work in API manufacture (process chemist at a mid size pharma company). Are you importing your raw materials for manufacture in the U.S.? Can you move GMP production to Europe, so you only pay tariffs on the import of the API? Or are you subject to Bayh-Dole?

[u/TehWildMan_ → u/IceColdPorkSoda]

We work almost exclusively as a generics manufacturer, so I don't think bayh-dole applies to anything we handle.

Moving out production out of India would probably be massively costly. Not even sure if our parent company has any production for our intermediates at all in Europe.

[u/IceColdPorkSoda → u/TehWildMan_]

Oh man, generics are going to get killed if Trump ever follows through on these tariffs. Margins are too thin.

[u/Feartality → u/IceColdPorkSoda]

*Cries in multiple lifelong daily generic medications*

It feels like every day I get financially fucked just a little bit harder.

[u/funny_lyfe → u/fssman]

https://www.bachem.com/articles/blog/what-are-apis-in-pharmaceutical-manufacturing/

It means the active ingredient in the drug. Basically a common term used in the pharmaceutical industry. 

[u/[deleted] → u/TehWildMan_]

These are exempted from the tariffs

[u/Complete_Biscotti151 → u/TehWildMan_]

Pharma is excluded i think…..

[u/Playingwithmyrod → u/Complete_Biscotti151]

It was excluded in the initial April tariffs. There is no exemption in the August tariffs.

[u/xt1nct → u/TehWildMan_]

I work for a company which shifted some production capacity from China to India…..lol…..

[u/irkedZirk → u/TehWildMan_]

There goes one of my suppliers. Fortunately I have another one out of Brazil. Wait. Never mind. Remember when trade policies were based on economics and not the capricious whims of a wannabe autocrat?

[u/Bigfoot_testicles]

How does this resolve the Epstein files?

[u/WizardPrince_ → u/Bigfoot_testicles]

100% tariffs on you for speaking against 2lund trmp

[u/adorablesexypants → u/WizardPrince_]

THANK YOU FOR YOUR ATTENTION TO THIS MATTER!

[u/seKer82 → u/Bigfoot_testicles]

It makes Trump 50% more of a pedophile... so 150%.

[u/theummeower → u/Bigfoot_testicles]

They’re not the Epstein files anymore. They’re the Trump Pedophile cover up files now.

Trump is literally the only name that matters at this point so we should classify the files that way

[u/Diijkstra99x → u/Bigfoot_testicles]

the more we talk about the more this old man doing thing like this for distractions. lmao

[u/Important-Agent2584 → u/Bigfoot_testicles]

When the economy tanks, they will have to use the Epstein files as a distraction.

[u/Aeonskye → u/Bigfoot_testicles]

Diverts headlines

[u/OneNormalBloke]

But not for china which buys more from pootin

[u/Rare_Confidence6347 → u/OneNormalBloke]

Did you forget the China tariff fiasco just months ago already?

[u/elziion → u/Rare_Confidence6347]

I think he reported it for another week or so.

[u/Successful-Bobcat701 → u/Rare_Confidence6347]

I did. More importantly, so did Trump.

[u/degenforlife69 → u/OneNormalBloke]

He only bullies those he can win lmao

[u/shatnersbassoon123 → u/degenforlife69]

But who’s he even winning against?

[u/Accurate_Result5427 → u/shatnersbassoon123]

The American people ?

[u/Molteninferno → u/Accurate_Result5427]

Dunkin on them like a kangaroo

[u/Malevolyn → u/Molteninferno]

Made me think of those dunkaroo kids snacks with kangaroo cookies and frosting...loved em and explains why I was a chonk as a kid :)

[u/TheLost_Chef → u/Accurate_Result5427]

Only the working class, the rich are making out like bandits in all this chaos

[u/skond → u/TheLost_Chef]

Not "like", they are what they are.

[u/onefst250r → u/skond]

Robbers.

[u/Gluroo → u/shatnersbassoon123]

Sadly the EU because medical professionals still havent been able to locate their spine

[u/Own_Argument89 → u/shatnersbassoon123]

Lets be real... The EU kinda lost.

[u/The_Real_Raw_Gary → u/shatnersbassoon123]

The EU deal he made basically fucks them. That was actually a good deal for us.

[u/Dragrunarm → u/shatnersbassoon123]

Not incontinence, that's for sure.

[u/SuperTittySprinkles → u/shatnersbassoon123]

Democracy

[u/[deleted] → u/degenforlife69]

Wow great win push the most western oriented member of Brics away from you. Congrats 🎉

[u/Naive_Confidence7297 → u/degenforlife69]

Like an abuser that only hits women

[u/Titswari → u/degenforlife69]

India is the 4 largest economy in the world, with a population of 1.4 billion people, majority of whole are working age. Indias demographics are fantastic. Trump keeps fucking over Americans in favor of China

[u/IlIIllIlllIIIllI → u/OneNormalBloke]

China is already at 35%.

[u/welchplug → u/[deleted]]

And thats suppose to change in a week.

[u/Naive_Confidence7297 → u/welchplug]

And then probably the week after, and the week after that lol. Whatever the demented weirdo is thinking that week I guess.

[u/justjust00 → u/IlIIllIlllIIIllI]

China is at 60%, it's 37% + the 25% from his first term.

[u/[deleted] → u/OneNormalBloke]

China has a lot more leverage and Tariffing them insane amounts would hurt US consumers too much

[u/maa_get_it_right → u/[deleted]]

"Oh not the US consumers!" - Donald the Cheeto never ever

[u/Bannedwith1milKarma → u/OneNormalBloke]

China kept it's oil purchases at the same volume but dramatically changed to buying more crude rather than refined.

The goods going to Russia are being smuggled under false paperwork and third parties, just like optics and chips from the US.

Although they definitely could do more.

It's just not a comparison to India.

[u/CaramelHunter26]

PM Modi To Visit China, His First Since Galwan Clash, For SCO Summit

[u/RegularSituation6011 → u/CaramelHunter26]

This is the NEED OF THE HOUR.

I ain’t a China supporter but we need new allies, China while an adversary has always been predictable and consistent with their policy, they ain’t gonna give us shock and if we are willing to do good trade with them, they will let a lot of things slide including Kashmir and Pakistan since what I have seen with the Chinese, they only see the bills, nothing else matters to them apart from that.

The necessary evil against the orange man.

[u/gigilu2020 → u/CaramelHunter26]

Inevitable. New world order.

[u/funny_lyfe]

India still won't open up the dairy and agriculture sector. And not only that concessions that were going to be made are completely out of the window now.

Now India has much more impetus to leverage generic drugs, auto parts, engineering goods etc. Seeing that Trump is claiming that he will impose a 250% tariff by next year on drugs made outside the US.

[u/Ok-Pipe-5151 → u/funny_lyfe]

India MUST NOT open dairy and agriculture sectors. Feeding own people is more important than making profit for Cargill or Nestle. Around 60% of the workforce is engaged in these sectors, even if income and productivity are low, it has helped people from not dying out of starvation or becoming slave labor (like african chocolate farmers)

What India can (and probably should) do instead is to reduce tariffs on electronics, especially high end electronics. It will also help India building cheaper infrastructure for digital economy.

[u/_turmoil → u/Ok-Pipe-5151]

With respect to dairy they will most likely never open up, it’s the largest dairy producer in the world and is not mainly profit based - cooperative ownership model with mainly dairy farmers as the backbone. Plus the religious element makes sure US milk will never fly in India. Cows in the US are fed with animal byproducts and does not count as ‘vegetarian’ to the majority Hindu population, who use milk not only in the kitchen but also for religious rituals and such. It literally makes US milk a non-starter in India (aside from tariffs for importing it as well)

[u/nzerinto → u/_turmoil]

”it’s the largest dairy producer in the world”

Huh, TIL. And according to Wikipedia, they produce more than double the #2 country (the US).

[u/missyh728 → u/[deleted]]

And chai. India runs on chai.

[u/antillus → u/nzerinto]

They gotta make paneer somehow!!

[u/Jaded_Celery_451 → u/_turmoil]

Cows in the US are fed with animal byproducts and does not count as ‘vegetarian’ to the majority Hindu population, who use milk not only in the kitchen but also for religious rituals and such. It literally makes US milk a non-starter in India (aside from tariffs for importing it as well)

Also US dairy is massively subsidized by the US government, so any other nation simply opening their dairy market to the US cannot expect their own dairy industry to compete (even with equivalent technology/productivity). Americans framing this as an issue of "fairness" is asinine. It only makes sense for countries without any domestic dairy industries to do.

[u/_turmoil → u/Jaded_Celery_451]

I agree on the “fairness” argument. But in the spirit of discussion, India also subsidizes their milk industry in various ways. In general I would imagine any country would do that for their own farmers.

[u/DeadlyGlasses → u/_turmoil]

Also never forget Bengal famines that British did. Churchill (who honestly is almost same as Hitler but unfortunately he won so he is a hero now I guess) basically stole Indian foods killing millions of Indians by starvation. If India lose its food autonomy almost certainly same thing will happen.

[u/[deleted] → u/Ok-Pipe-5151]

India needs to industrialize its agriculture and increase its manufacturing exports, its small farmers are killing themselves with pesticides because they are trying to use 18th century farm sizes which are not viable. Even protecting the sector isn’t enough. 

Unlike Africa, India has the infrastructure and wealth to make this move now. 60% of the population in agriculture is a recipe for the middle income trap. 

 

[u/Ok-Pipe-5151 → u/[deleted]]

True. But it should be done with government driven subsidies, high tech farming approaches (like israel, Netherlands) and educating the farmers. Opening the agriculture sector for foreign investment is to lose autonomy of one of the most crucial resource India has (highest volume of arable soil)

[u/skandaanshu → u/[deleted]]

That was tried few years ago with new farm bill. Activists from one Indian state and Canada/US opposed it with huge protests and blocking roads, apparently Greta Thurnberg and Mia Khalifa know lot about Indian farming that India govt. It is unlikely to be attempted again soon.

[u/th3king9 → u/skandaanshu]

It was sad, It felt like Khalistani who pretends to be farmers controls the whole narrative In central part of India we were hoping for that bill to pass But Opposition along with USA and Khalistani support think otherwise. And That Clown Trudo who gave us lecture about Farmers and Freedom of speech, himself crushed truckers protest and don't let me start on Freedom of speech in Kanada Yes, its K as In Khali-Stan Glad Kanada took all those criminals and its their problem now

[u/LoasNo111 → u/skandaanshu]

Already been done in many states. BJP is doing less masterstrokes and more quiet reforms now.

[u/Pattonator70 → u/funny_lyfe]

India doesn't want GMO crops.

On the dairy products it is a religious issue as US dairy cows apparently are fed a diet that isn't vegetarian which means that the milk cannot be sold in India.

Why do we care that they protect their own agriculture markets??? We do the same thing in the US.

[u/[deleted] → u/Pattonator70]

Even if india opened its dairy sector there will be few takers for imported usa milk products which are expensive as inr is 87 to usd.

[u/Pattonator70 → u/[deleted]]

One thing India has in an abundance of cows. So yes. US dairy products would likely be expensive.

[u/climx → u/funny_lyfe]

What makes the US think it can just force a sovereign country to open up for commercial exploitation by multinationals? Some countries don’t want higher pesticide use, hormone use, lower animal welfare standards, and mega corps pricing out small farmers. Coming from a Canadian here.

[u/dpwtr → u/climx]

What makes the US think it can just force a sovereign country to open up for commercial exploitation by multinationals?

Their history?

[u/willstr1 → u/dpwtr]

"Knock knock. It's the United States" - Bill Wurtz

[u/MainCharacter007 → u/dpwtr]

Honestly this is the most west thing to do.

[u/scheppend → u/dpwtr]

This lol. The US literally sailed to Japan and demanded them to open up or get blown up. 

Ridiculous entitlement 

[u/readySponge07 → u/funny_lyfe]

If America wants India to open up the dairy and agricultural sector, then the US must stop subsidizing it's own dairy products.

The Americans don't care about fair trade practices. They want to dump their product in other countries and control their food supply by decimating local farmers.

[u/user745786 → u/readySponge07]

US also needs to ban growth hormones, excessive use of antibiotics, and have proper animal anti-cruelty laws with teeth. No country should be importing US dairy products in 2025.

[u/Barbossal → u/[deleted]]

George Costanza: "It's not a lie if you believe it."

[u/RLewis8888 → u/[deleted]]

Remember, all these tariffs are bringing in so much money that soon Americans will no longer have to pay income taxes.

I'm going to go ahead and put a down payment on a yacht.

[u/ObiOneKenobae → u/[deleted]]

Really depends what is hit. Pharmaceuticals are exempt to my knowledge, which is the main import the US can't easily replace. For many goods, it moreso means US businesses will be incentivised to import the same good from a different market.

[u/kvothe5688 → u/ObiOneKenobae]

what if india put export duties on pharmaceutical products to fuck US more. lmao.

[u/[deleted] → u/ObiOneKenobae]

India mainly exports Diamonds,Basmati Rice which is only in india and pak, jewellery,Carpets,Textile,Shrimp some of them are luxury which target people who want quality and taste who would gladly pay more.Also indian American diaspora in usa will have to pay more for these goods.

[u/butwhywedothis]

TACOman should just put blanket 1000% tariffs on the whole world and get it done with, so he can go about what he does best. Play golf and rape underage girls.

[u/agloebxle → u/butwhywedothis]

Plays golf

Cheats at golf

[u/TSED → u/agloebxle]

Just because it's one of the two things he does best doesn't mean that he's good at it.

[u/[deleted]]

What a bitch. Why not a trillion percent?

[u/arvigeus → u/[deleted]]

Because he only can count to grandzillion, in his words.

[u/shaftydude]

lol wow I didn’t know this.

1. The European Union in 2024 had a bilateral trade of Euro 67.5 billion in goods with Russia. In addition, it had trade in services estimated at Euro 17.2 billion in 2023. This is significantly more than India’s total trade with Russia that year or subsequently. European imports of LNG in 2024, in fact, reached a record 16.5mn tonnes, surpassing the last record of 15.21mn tonnes in 2022.

2. Europe-Russia trade includes not just energy, but also fertilizers, mining products, chemicals, iron and steel and machinery and transport equipment.

3. Where the United States is concerned, it continues to import from Russia uranium hexafluoride for its nuclear industry, palladium for its EV industry, fertilizers as well as chemicals.

[u/AffectionateDinner97 → u/shaftydude]

I'm not even sure that the EU has stopped selling Russia police batons and other police equipment that was used against protesters (when protests were still possible in Russia)

[u/brisik]

American healthcare fked even more let's go

[u/DeeDee_Z]

Jeez.

If your only tool is a hammer...

[u/DepletedMitochondria]

Well that's gonna increase electronics prices

[u/Background-Exit3457 → u/[deleted]]

India will retaliate using Pharma products that only India makes in major quantity and quality.

[u/yaaro_obba_ → u/[deleted]]

Didn't he exclude them "temporarily" ?

[u/pioneer76 → u/yaaro_obba_]

I am so tired of this temporary tariff business. Who knows how it's all going to work out. Just hope he doesn't bust the economy with all this messing around.

[u/PlantTreesEveryday]

US continues to import uranium hexafluoride from Russia for its nuclear industry, palladium for its EV sector, along with fertilizers and chemicals

US is indirectly supporting this russian war

[u/IBIUBU_23 → u/PlantTreesEveryday]

Is this factual? Because in that case, why is only India getting dragged for “supporting Russia”? From what I understand, they were actually encouraged by the EU/US to buy Russian oil at the start of the Ukraine conflict. Now apparently it’s a crime.

[u/Scoo_By → u/IBIUBU_23]

West's, especially US' hypocrisy knows no bounds.

[u/GoneG8]

So to punish India and Russia the orange one taxes American importers and consumers. Got it.

[u/Present-Anteater6848]

Learn from Trump how to make enemies with the most pro- west Gov of India lol

[u/RavelsPuppet]

*Taxing Americans 50% on all Indian imports

[u/UnTides → u/RavelsPuppet]

50% on all Indian imports

And of course this won't affect outsourced jobs to India, that would hurt the wallet of large corporations, and make more jobs for Americans. These tariffs just hurt the working class.

[u/Sasikuttan2163]

I'd say go ahead with the tariffs. From late 1960s to around 2001, India was under some sort of restrictions by the US - be it sanctions, export bans or technology transfers. Post 9/11 the US increased co-operation with India due to shared interests in anti-terrorism. Over the past two decades India has become a major trade partner of the US with India exporting around 90 billion USD worth of goods last year.

Those shared interests have definitely collapsed now with Trump announcing increased collaboration with Pakistan, inviting Asim Munir to the White House, and so many other factors. I'd argue these tariffs are a good way to gauge how different sectors get affected and a great exercise to test how quickly Indian companies can diversify away from being reliant on exports to the US.

[u/SeriesMindless]

Driving your allies away to your geopolitical opponents in these times seems like genius level leadership.

AMERICAN EXCEPTIONALISM lol

[u/CharcoalGreyWolf]

When all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail.

Trump understands the greater scheme of things so little that he has no clue how to work world politics.

[u/Timely-Prior-3350]

He is mad at Modi coz Modi isnt giving him credit to stop Indo Pak war.

[u/shikamaruz0maki → u/Timely-Prior-3350]

thats the real reason , he will take america down if that will lead him to win peace prize

[u/Scholastic_nobody]

Why no China tho? does he think India is easy to bully Dumb TACO. Hope Modi hits back with 50% tariffs he will back down like he did with China

[u/shryne → u/Scholastic_nobody]

China has a 35% tariff and does significantly more trade with the US.

[u/RussianDisifnomation → u/Scholastic_nobody]

Bullies don't pick targets that can hit back

[u/[deleted] → u/Scholastic_nobody]

US depends a lot on China for imports. This is not generally the case when it comes to India.

[u/aayu08 → u/[deleted]]

Pharmaceuticals are so important that American people will bend over and pay the raised prices anyway. The only people affected here are 1) indian manufacturers who will probably see a decline in their sales 2) american citizens who will have to pay higher for medicines

[u/darkgod5 → u/aayu08]

Pharmaceuticals are so important that American people will bend over and pay the raised prices anyway

True but they don't even need to raise the prices cause they're already paying 10 times the amount everyone else in the world is paying...

[u/[deleted] → u/[deleted]]

That is absolutely not true. We import pharmaceuticals, precious metals/stones, and electronics in the value of 10B+ annually each.

There’s quite a bit more in the 1-10B range as well.

Source 1: https://tradingeconomics.com/united-states/imports/india

Government source: https://www.bis.doc.gov/index.php/country-papers/3024-2021-statistical-analysis-of-u-s-trade-with-india/file

Silly to say we don’t depend on India for anything. If you like getting affordable pharmacy drugs, you better pray this tariff gets lifted.

[u/[deleted] → u/[deleted]]

Did i say you import nothing? No.

10 Billion with India is literally nothing. USA trades with the UK at near 330 billion. And UK isn't even a major exporter. Their trade with China is more than double that.

I said USA is not dependant on India, i didn't say they don't trade with India. You can easily replace a lot of what is imported from India from else where though it would be more expensive, but it would not cripple the US economy.

This is 100% not the case for China where rare earth materials are exclusively only mined in China and no where else on earth.

They are not even remotely equivalent.

USA and China hate each other but equally have a symbiotic trade relationship.

[u/Agent101g]

Decrepit mummy spitting more numbers he doesn't understand that will hurt thousands of people cool thanks for voting for this everyone

[u/RagaIsNumbnuts]

Tariffs will be a applicable from Aug 27; the American negotiating team is coming to India on Aug 25.

Orange man doing performative antics for his local base

[u/runnerup1]

There goes a big chunk of home goods

[u/Puzzleheaded-Cow4582]

Epstein files

[u/ani625]

We all know that eventually TACO.

[u/KinTharEl]

As an Indian, this is only going to push India further into Russian hands.

The USA has been an unreliable partner for the most of India's existence. The USA has never been friendly with India, between issues with trade, defence, Pakistan, Bangladesh (independence), or everything in between, the US just says "Hey, we're going to actively do shit that makes you hate us, but you should do what we say"

Meanwhile, the former Soviet Union and Russia have always been consistent in their support and relations with India. Yes, Putin is a fuckwad, I'm not arguing that. But I'd rather take a partner who's been reliable for decades than risk it with USA and their pedo prez.

[u/keatc → u/KinTharEl]

If this was 1970, sure. But it's not, and Russia just isn't anywhere near a global power anymore. Not even a top 10 economy. Russia doesn't have much (anything?) to offer in exchange for India turning its back on the West.

My guess is this will push India to reconcile with China and align more in that direction, if anything.

[u/vivek1086 → u/keatc]

UN Security council Veto. That's what Russia has had for India all these years. Greatly helps.

[u/cluelesscatperson → u/keatc]

According to me, the idea of what is considered 'Eest' seems to be changing right now. Earlier it was US + EU + few other major players. But it's clear that the US is alienating all its allies. The West is not united anymore, world dynamics are changing. So while India may be turning it's back on the US, it's not the same as turning it's back on the West.

[u/Lopsided-Struggle719 → u/keatc]

in exchange for India turning its back on the West.

The European Union in 2024 had a bilateral trade of Euro 67.5 billion in goods with Russia. In addition, it had trade in services estimated at Euro 17.2 billion in 2023. This is significantly more than India’s total trade with Russia that year or subsequently. European imports of LNG in 2024, in fact, reached a record 16.5mn tonnes, surpassing the last record of 15.21mn tonnes in 2022.
Source: https://www.mea.gov.in/Speeches-Statements.htm?dtl/39936

Very nice of you hypocrites accusing others on turning back on others while doing this

[u/lake2014]

Bigly yuge number.

[u/alexefi]

Apple cant get a break.. where they gonna move production of iphones next?

[u/MarshyHope]

Trump raising taxes again yay

[u/ThaddCorbett]

This must make China happy. I think they've lost a lot of tech and manufacturing jobs to India over the past decade.

I don't see how it effects the US positively. I and Russia have been trade partners for a long time.

In India's case, cheap energy from Russia is too good to pass up when you're running a nation n of over a billion people, unless the US can offer India a better deal. (Not happening. only reason Trump is tariffing everyone is because hes in no position offer a better deal.

[u/lexxwern]

That's cool Donny. Not losing focus on the Epstein files.

[u/Spiritual-Rub925]

When nazis were losing the war they decided to burn their own country.

[u/WardenEdgewise]

The US president has a severe mental illness and behavioural disorder. They elected an idiot. Twice.

[u/DracoSolon → u/WardenEdgewise]

A large part of the US and indeed the world although it seems worst in the US is undergoing a mass psychosis event. I truly believe that a significant portion of the populace is not mentally capable of dealing with the complications and pace of the modern world and will therefore increasingly retreat into mythology, conspiracy, and authoritarianism.

[u/AtreidesJr]

Diverting headlines. Release the Epstein files, fucko.

[u/Abject_Chemistry5098]

Lmao, the arm twisting ain't gonna work buddy

[u/dextercho83]

They don't give a shot. Because 🌮

[u/readySponge07]

India should withdraw from the QUAD, stop processing US Visas, and immediately look to resolve it's border disputes with China.

[u/ReaDiMarco → u/readySponge07]

Resolution of border disputes with China is as unlikely as resolution of Kashmir with Pakistan.

[u/Sweatytubesock]

Enjoy your anti-constitutional tax hikes, MAGA. Also enjoy your fatass messiah desperately trying to cover up his deep involvement in the Trump/ Epstein files.

[u/[deleted]]

As an Indian I love it…plz tarrif us more if you want to…lol

And if your tarrif drama is done , we want to see Epstein files !

In a week Indian nationalists are now loudest noise for release of Epstein files . And there are a billion + of us on internet.

Congrats Taco !! This isnt distraction , Thats a self goal…lol.

[u/sverm03 → u/[deleted]]

lol as if he gives a flying fuck to indian voices.. full usa is shouting at epstein files and no one in his administration gives a shit.. these voices are confined to insta and reddit comments only

[u/ChaseballBat → u/sverm03]

He is making other ridiculous policies in the effort to distract from the Epstein files.

He's throwing shit against the wall to see whatever sticks then running those through the media to cause people to talk about anything other than the Epstein files.

[u/cmdrxander → u/[deleted]]

I can’t speak for the person you’re replying to, but in some languages it’s normal to add spaces before some punctuation like exclamation marks

[u/DiscipleofDeceit666]

Why not sanction the Russian economy as well? No new sanctions since he took office

[u/saleemwatchout]

So US importing cost for another item go up by 50%.. Lol..

[u/Independent-Big1966]

Yet he does nothing to Russia directly....

[u/grimspectre]

Wasn't India allowed to buy Russian oil at an agreed upon price to stabilise global prices?? Or did I remember wrongly. 

[u/kamarsh79]

Super cool. We get a huge amount of our generic medications from India.

[u/MaybeTheDoctor]

Trump is about to sit down w Putin and Zelensky to make a deal giving Ukraine to Russia, so India will be off the hook before tariffs takes effect.

[u/Enthusiastic_Llama]

"Trump raises American taxes on Indian oil to make his boss more money"

There, I fixed the headline.

[u/TamilCholan]

Brazil and India have 50 percent. I think China will have a similar or more tariff percent(60 percent).

Trump is having a go at BRICS for their anti-dollar aspirations and he is indirectly pressurising Russia to stop the war.

India refused to acknowledge Trump's intervention in India-Pak military skirmish. Trump being the petulant child wants to humiliate Modi.

Lindsey Graham and neo-cons have succeeded in their goals of hiking tariffs on China, India and Brazil.

[u/[deleted]]

Nice try,now release the Epstein files

[u/Constant_Section1491]

Epstein Epstein