Trump Criticizes India for ‘Tremendously High Tariffs’ on US Goods

Trump Criticizes India: US President Donald Trump criticised the high tariffs charged by India and other countries including China, calling it "very unfair" and announcing reciprocal tariffs will kick in from next month.

The reciprocal tariff will commence from April 2. He wants to impose the same tariff on imports from foreign countries as those nations impose on US exports.

"Other countries have used tariffs against us for decades and now it's our turn to start using them against those other countries. On average, the European Union, China, Brazil, India, - Mexico and Canada - Have you heard of them -and countless other nations charge us tremendously higher tariffs than we charge them. It's very unfair,” Trump said Tuesday night.

said in an address to the Joint Session of the Congress, the first of his second term in the White House.

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"India charges us auto tariffs higher than 100%," he continued.

"China's average tariff on our products is twice what we charge them. And South Korea's average tariff is four times higher. Think of that four times higher and we give so much help militarily and in so many other ways to South Korea. But that's what happens, this is happening by friend and foe."

Stressing that the system is "not fair to the US", Trump said, "This system is not fair to the United States and never was. And so on April 2nd, I wanted to make it April 1st, but I didn't want to be accused of April Fool's Day. That's not -- this one day was -- cost us a lot of money. But we're going to do it in April. I'm a very superstitious person. April 2nd, reciprocal tariffs kick in. And whatever they tariff us, other countries, we will tariff them."

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The US President also vowed to Tax the countries who were taxing the US and claimed that the US had been ripped off for years by every country on Earth.

"That's reciprocal, back and forth. Whatever they tax us, we will tax them. If they do non-monetary tariffs to keep us out of their market, then we will do non-monetary barriers to keep them out of our market. There's a lot of that, too. They don't even allow us in their market. We will take in trillions and trillions of dollars and create jobs like we have never seen before. I did it with China, and I did it with others. And the Biden administration couldn't do anything about it because there was so much money. They couldn't do anything about it. We have been ripped off for decades by nearly every country on Earth, and we will not let that happen any longer," he said.

Trump said that his administration has accomplished more in 43 days than most administrations in four years or eight years and “we have just started.” He stated that the US is on the “verge of a comeback, the likes of which has never witnessed.”

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