New Delhi [India], April 3 (ANI): Congress President Mallikarjun Kharge on Thursday said that his party will discuss the US administration’s imposition of a 26 percent “reciprocal tariff” on India and release a detailed statement.
According to sources, the Congress party is set to raise the issue during Question Hour in the Lok Sabha.
“It doesn’t seem right to give a byte on this issue. Our party will release a detailed statement on it,” Kharge said outside Parliament today.
“… The friendship between them (US President Trump and PM Modi), the way they embrace each other and talk, and now these tariffs. It shows that America (Donald Trump) is a businessman. ‘Aur wo humara customer phas gaya’ (And our customers are getting trapped),” he remarked.
Congress MP Rajeev Shukla said that the tariffs are “extremely detrimental” to India’s trade and urged the government to raise the issue.
“It will be extremely detrimental to our trade. The Indian government should raise this issue with the US government immediately,” Shukla said.
Trump on Wednesday (local US time) announced reciprocal tariffs on several countries, including India, during a ‘Make America Wealthy Again’ event in Washington.
Calling these tariffs “discounted reciprocal tariffs,” Trump said that India charges the US 52 percent.
“India, very, very tough. The Prime Minister just left and is a great friend of mine, but you are not treating us right. They charge us 52 percent, and we charge them almost nothing…” the US President said at the event.
The import tariffs imposed by the US on other major countries are:
- China (34 percent)
- European Union (20 percent)
- Vietnam (46 percent)
- Taiwan (32 percent)
- Japan (24 percent)
- United Kingdom (10 percent)
- Bangladesh (37 percent)
- Pakistan (29 percent)
- Sri Lanka (44 percent)
- Israel (17 percent)
At the event, Trump also emphasized that after decades of exploitation, the era of American taxpayers being “ripped off” was over.
“Our country and its taxpayers have been ripped off for more than 50 years, but it is not going to happen anymore,” Trump declared. (ANI)
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