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India Offers Zero-For-Zero Tariffs In Major Trade Win For Trump

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In a bid to deescalate, India has already lowered duties on Harley-Davidson motorcycles and bourbon whiskey, both politically symbolic U.S. exports. But the new offer goes much further and directly addresses the White House’s core complaints.

This is fantastic for our country. India has been tough on the United States.
 
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Where do you guys find these questionable websites for news?

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India Offers Zero-For-Zero Tariffs In Major Trade Win For Trump
How is the "external revenue service" going to replace the IRS if we're collecting zero tariffs?
 
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The article does not seemingly add up. India exports steel, auto parts and drugs to the USA and buys far less from the USA. India Exports of iron and steel to United States - 2025 Data 2026 Forecast 1988-2024 Historical

In auto parts India exports 8 billion the USA and the USA exports under 2 billion to them

In Pharmaceuticals India exports 8.7 billion to the USA, it imports 800 million.

So India is proposing zero tariffs, for what they ship to the USA. Here is what India buys.
  • Mineral fuels, oils, and distillation products: This category includes items like crude petroleum, coal briquettes, and gas turbines.

  • Pearls, precious stones, metals, and coins: This includes diamonds, jewelry, and other precious metals.

  • Machinery, nuclear reactors, boilers: This category includes various types of machinery and equipment.

  • Aircraft, spacecraft: This category includes aircraft and related parts.
So this would be great for US consumers but it will only make the trade imbalance with India worse. So this article seems out of touch and likely false. I suppose a trade balance could occur with quotas. If this is the case, then India would still have tariffs on about 80% of what they sell to the USA.

On a side note I see too that the UK/India trade deal they are making together took 3 years. UK and India agree trade deal after three years of talks

Seems like quite a task to make solid deals in less than 90 days. Temp deals are OK, but it still leaves business in a sort of unknown territory.
 
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Seems like quite a task to make solid deals in less than 90 days. Temp deals are OK, but it still leaves business in a sort of unknown territory.
This is the first part of the trade deals. USA will meet with India autumn of 2025.

US President Donald Trump hinted at possible trade agreements with nations as early as this week to sidestep higher US import taxes. Discussions are ongoing with several countries, with Trump holding the final decision-making power. India is in talks with the US to avoid these taxes. Commerce Minister Piyush Goyal recently visited the US. Both countries aim for a Bilateral Trade Agreement by autumn 2025.

 
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This is the first part of the trade deals. USA will meet with India autumn of 2025.

US President Donald Trump hinted at possible trade agreements with nations as early as this week to sidestep higher US import taxes. Discussions are ongoing with several countries, with Trump holding the final decision-making power. India is in talks with the US to avoid these taxes. Commerce Minister Piyush Goyal recently visited the US. Both countries aim for a Bilateral Trade Agreement by autumn 2025.

Yes, Trump I believe already said there might not even need to be a formal signing. However, it seems Trump is seeking a deal to balance trade. So doing that with India seems impossible unless we buy less and they buy more. Perhaps the quota does that but if it is just using quotas then quite a bit of trade is going to be coming via tariffs because the U.S. imports of drugs. steel and auto parts, are so severely lopsided with India exporting so much. Anyway, I think Trump is making progress. I still will say though that if these are handshake deals that business will be reluctant to act. Many may just wait for the next President and the impending lawsuits on tariffs before finalizing more long -term production agreements. The exceptions are those can produce in the USA for a reasonable cost. The other exception is that most companies will continue to move away from China. This is already occurring. They seem too toxic to base a long term plan on as long as they express the retaking of Taiwan.
 
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Yes, Trump I believe already said there might not even need to be a formal signing. However, it seems Trump is seeking a deal to balance trade. So doing that with India seems impossible unless we buy less and they buy more. Perhaps the quota does that but if it is just using quotas then quite a bit of trade is going to be coming via tariffs because the U.S. imports of drugs. steel and auto parts, are so severely lopsided with India exporting so much. Anyway, I think Trump is making progress. I still will say though that if these are handshake deals that business will be reluctant to act. Many may just wait for the next President and the impending lawsuits on tariffs before finalizing more long -term production agreements. The exceptions are those can produce in the USA for a reasonable cost. The other exception is that most companies will continue to move away from China. This is already occurring. They seem too toxic to base a long term plan on as long as they express the retaking of Taiwan.
I agree, but once we start producing, the dependence may not be so lopsided after all, we gutted our manufacturing. I don't think Trump is a total loon, and I'm sure he understands this.
Yesterday's press conference with Carney surprised me in that even Carney backed up Trump in front of the press, but liberal media focused on the "Canada is not for sale" headline, but Trump agreed. It's almost as if they copy each other. (rant) Carney said that negotiations are a process and he understood where Trump was coming from, and he funny thing is that Trump said we will protect Canada no matter what.

If we didn't give our manufacturing away for cheap labor and a dream that China would become a Democracy, we wouldn't be worried about Taiwan. America not having an industrial policy and relying on the reserve currency has put us in this situation, and now we sanction China and are willing to go to war because we lost the upper hand? I bet you a blessing point that if we are still on this planet, that as soon as we become self-sufficient, we'll give Taiwan away. This isn't the first time we've left a country hanging.

China is in the same boat as us, but opposite. All their eggs are in manufacturing, and because of the war and the global slowdown, and soon recession, their plants are closing down. There is turmoil over there, and the reason for Switzerland. I also heard it's so bad over there that they aren't posting the monthly economic data, so they can't be trusted, as history has shown. Their face over truth.

What other countries don't realize it will be better for their work if they take up some of China's market share, and many are starting in Biden's administration with rare earths. All I can do is hope and pray, but the good book points to a different direction for mankind.
 
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Good observations on Carney and China as well. Taiwan is a wild card. I am pretty sure Japan, the Philippines and others will get involved if Taiwan can last even a few days, so I am thinking the USA will be drawn in one way or another.
 
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