Washington: With the August 1 deadline to reach a trade agreement with the United States expires on Friday (tomorrow), President Donald Trump on Thursday assailed India and Russia over trade, saying that he didn’t care what either of them did.
“I don’t care what India does with Russia. They can take their dead economies down together, for all I care,” President Trump said in a post on X.
“We have done very little business with India, their Tariffs are too high, among the highest in the World,” the president added.
The scathing remarks follow Trump’s earlier statement, where he said that Washington and New Delhi were in the process of negotiating a trade deal, after announcing earlier in the day that the US would impose a 25% tariff on goods imported from the country.
The 25% tariff, as well as an unspecified penalty announced by Trump in a morning social media post, would strain relations with the world’s most populous democracy. -Agencies
