The Daily Populous Tuesday September 2nd, 2025 day edition
Authored by cnbc.com and submitted by Puginator

WASHINGTON, DC - AUGUST 26: U.S. President Donald Trump calls on a reporter during a cabinet meeting with members of his administration in the Cabinet Room of the White House on August 26, 2025 in Washington, DC. This is the seventh cabinet meeting of Trump's second term. (Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)

U.S. President Donald Trump on Monday doubled down on his criticism of India, calling trade ties with the country "a totally one sided disaster!" after Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi visited China to attend the Shanghai Cooperation Organization summit.

Trump in a post on Truth Social also said that India had offered to cut its tariffs to zero, but it was "getting late," and that the country should have done so "years ago," without elaborating on when such an offer was made.

This comes against the backdrop of the U.S. imposing 50% tariffs on the country, including secondary duties of 25% last month for purchasing Russian oil, which India has called "unfair, unjustified and unreasonable."

Trump reiterated that India was buying oil and arms from Russia, and accused New Delhi of selling the U.S. "massive amounts of goods," but imposing high tariffs on U.S. exports to India.

"The reason is that India has charged us, until now, such high Tariffs, the most of any country, that our businesses are unable to sell into India. It has been a totally one sided disaster!" he wrote.

Data from the World Trade Organization shows that India imposed a 6.2% average tariff on U.S. imports into the country in 2024, on a trade-weighted basis, while U.S. levied 2.4% on Indian goods. The trade-weighted average is the average rate of duty per imported value unit.

boinwtm0ds on September 2nd, 2025 at 02:37 UTC »

So the US' trade surplus with India is less than $50 billion and $586 billion with China. Yet somehow it's a "one sided disaster" only with India?

PWL51 on September 2nd, 2025 at 01:47 UTC »

He hasn’t figured out that India and China plus a lot of other countries are going to ignore him and his dumb ass tariffs . He will be responsible for driving the entire economy down the crapper.

Successful-Bobcat701 on September 2nd, 2025 at 01:42 UTC »

Remind me, who negotiated the US trade deal with India?