Trump Slaps India With Another 25% Tariff Over Russian Oil Purchases
India now faces a 50% tariff.
President Donald Trump issued a new executive order that doubles tariffs on India to 50% because India is buying Russian oil.
India faces one of the highest levies.
“To deal with the national emergency described in Executive Order 14066, I determine that it is necessary and appropriate to impose an additional ad valorem duty on imports of articles of India, which is directly or indirectly importing Russian Federation oil,” stated Trump in the order.
The tariffs will go into effect in 21 days.
The previous 25% tariffs begin on Thursday.
Last month, Trump went off on countries that buy anything from Russia, threatening 100% tariffs unless Russia reaches a peace deal with Ukraine:
“We’re very, very unhappy with them, and we’re going to be doing very severe tariffs, if you don’t have a deal in 50 days, tariffs at about 100%, they call them secondary tariffs,” Trump said from the White House while meeting with NATO’s secretary general, Mark Rutte.
The president said that he is “disappointed” with Putin, because he thought they would have had a deal months ago.
If a ceasefire deal is not reached by September, said Trump, “we’re going to be doing secondary tariffs.”
Donations tax deductible
to the full extent allowed by law.
Comments
tcb maga! djt
This will be a hard one for the left 😂
On the one hand it involves Russia and on the other hand TDS! 😂
Slap them with a 90% cut in work visas from India.
And a 50% cut in telephone answering ladies from India who answer the phone every time you call a US company in America.
agree but they are doing the jobs americans wont do b/c the welfare system is cushy..well thattt and their “side” jobs
Nepal, Bhutan, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka and Myanmar can also do those jobs—-not just India India India.
150%! Start revoking H1b’s many of which were falsely obtained and start deporting their recipients. There are many qualified Americans that can be employed in these jobs. Stop f;g over your fellow citizens to theoretically make a few extra bucks.
Let’s not forget fines and imprisonment of the employers who misused lots of visa programs to benefit their bottom line and harmed US Citizens in the process. These corporate bad actors are no less guilty than the woke administration of many Universities in putting US Citizen applicants far behind the quest for cash.
Often there’s pipeline from student visa (F) to ‘internship’ visa (J-1) or trainee (H-3) to an H visa of some sort. So some guy goes to US Univ, then to internship for year or two then to full-time employment on another visa and if they keep their nose clean can apply for a green card and pretty much stay indefinitely in the US until approved. One giant system that hurts US Citizens competing for those same slots at Univ and employers.
Tell Modi if he wants to have his cake and eat it too, he will have buy his flour, eggs and milk from America and his oil to cook it with from Saudi Arabia.
Now apply equivalent secondary sanctions of an extra 25% tariff on EVERY Nation that does business with Russia….but we won’t b/c Russia trade is being used as an excuse and many of our ‘allies’ do business with Russian firms, buy Russian grain, energy, fertilizer, rare earth…
I will agree with you on this, alienating India is about as stupid as it gets.
We need India as an ally.
India should, on paper, be a natural ally of the USA…..but in the early 70s the neocons decided to back Communist China which severely PO India. Not to mention the issue of wooing India into our orbit and away from their leadership role of the non aligned Nations. Then there’s the lingering issue of LBJ delaying Food Aid which didn’t exactly make India want to trust the USA. In the 90s the USA backed China again for entry to the ‘grown up’ table of international finance at the behest of the globalists who then offshored US domestic manufacturing.
I find it ironic that the loudest voices for the whole Ukraine Good/Russia Bad narrative don’t ever want to follow through on their claims by immediately invoking secondary sanctions for Nations that trade with Russia. Heck if we had done so in the beginning we’d have cut off most of the EU, much of the Mid East, a big portion of N Africa and central Asia…which would be ironic considering we’d have had to sanction ourselves as well.
I think we have to agree to disagree on Russia, I think Putin’s refusal to agree to Donbass in return for the end of the war…..but on the topic of India I really could not agree more and think the thought of alienating India is very much threatening to America.
I wish Russia was willing to turn West making the disagreement a moot point but India can’t be alienated it is far too important and will only gain more importance as it grows stronger.
Russia wasn’t offered the entirety of the Donbas or assurances that NATO will stop moving East (which has been a consistent issue for Russia that the West ignores).but I feel certain Russia would take a deal that recognizes their possession of the Donbas and Crimea.
IMO the wokiesta EU totalitarian globalists hell bent on open borders and erasing western culture are using ‘Russia gonna try to conquer Europe’ as a wag the dog event to distract from their own domestic political problems. The leadership of these same Nations are busy ruthlessly enforcing speech codes, jailing those who dissent and trying to outlaw rival populist political parties.
India or China. That was the question of the post WWII era and the neocon globalists picked China and continue to do so. India saw that their best path was in the ‘non aligned’ category playing the USSR and Warsaw Pact v NATO. IMO that ship has sailed and India will remain independent of US domination. Successive US administrations have backed China over India, same for our corporate sector. India doesn’t want to be beholden to the USA as a satellite and I don’t blame them.
How about a 50% tax on remittances
A 1% ‘tax’ on remittances is going into effect post Big Beautiful Bill. The deportations are having an impact reducing flow of $ about $1 Billion a month to Mexico in June alone or roughly 17% drop. As more folks ‘self deport’ and ICE continues workplace enforcement along with pursuing fugitives and the secondary arrests those spawn the remittance totals will continue to drop.
This is horrible for America. We need India, and India is not automatically pro-West, actually it isn’t pro-West at all alienate India from America and it is with the bad guys over night.
India since independence has been about putting India first. They are not gonna blow up their economy or harm their own interests to suit the whims or do the bidding of the USA. IMO, they’ll wait out DJT and hope for better outcomes down the line with the next administration. Past Ukrainian leadership would have been far wiser to have learned a thing or two from India about refusing to become a US satellite or cats paw for shady/sketchy fever dreams of neocon zealots/grifters.
What about the elephant in the room, the Peoples’ Republic of China? Not only does the PRC make substantial purchases of Iranian oil, there are also reports that China sent anti-aircraft missile defense systems to Iran after the Israeli attacks.