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US President Donald Trump has said that India offered to submit all goods from his country.
The Indian government “offered us a deal where you are basically willing to literally not raise a tariff,” said Trump at an event in Doha.
India and the United States are currently in discussions to negotiate a trade agreement.
Delhi has not yet commented on the comments. The BBC has contacted the Indian Ministry of Commerce for a comment.
No further details about the alleged deal have been published.
Trump spoke at an event with managing directors in Doha, in which he announced a number of shops between the USA and Qatar, including Boeing jets.
The US President made the comments when he spoke about Apple’s plans to make iPhones in India, and said he said CEO Tim Cook that he didn’t want him to build in India because it was “one of the highest covers in the world”.
“She [India] Have you offered us a deal where you basically agree to literally not collect tariffs. I said: ‘Tim, we treat you really well, we have grasped all the plants that you have built in China for years. We are not interested in building in India. India can take care of itself ‘. ”
Apple had said in a profit call at the beginning of this month Production of most iPhones from China to India Vietnam would be an important production center for articles such as iPads and Apple Watches.
President Trump hit tariffs of up to 27% of Indian goods in April. Delhi hurries to negotiate a trade agreement during the 90-day break from Trump about higher tariffs that ends on July 9th.
The United States and China only agreed this week to reduce import taxes for goods between the two countries -US tariffs for Chinese imports will drop from 145% to 30%, while the Chinese tariffs for some US imports will decrease from 125% to 10%.
Until recently, the United States was the largest trading partner of India, with the bilateral trade 190 billion USD (143 billion GBP).
Delhi has already reduced tariffs on Bourbon Whiskey, Motorcycles and a few other US products, but the USA has a trade deficit of $ 45 billion with India that wants to reduce Trump.
“Since Trump always blamed the high tariffs of India for the trade deficit, India from Day 1 could offer 90% of US exports to make it, with a” zero-for-zero “approach, the tariff of all goods with the exception of cars and agriculture. However, the deal has to ensure strict reciprocity, where are, “it says to a even tariff.
Trump and Modi have set a goal of more than doppel trade to USD 500 billion, but Delhi is unlikely that Delhi offers concessions in sectors such as agriculture in which deeper political sensitives are involved.
India recently showed more openness to trade agreements after years of skepticism.
Last week it deteriorates a trading pact with Great Britain, which will significantly collect the tasks in many protected sectors such as whiskey and automobiles.
Last year India signed a free trade agreement of $ 100 billion with the European Free Trade Association (EFTA) – a group of four European countries that are not members of the European Union – negotiations after almost 16 years.
The EU and India are also urged to hold a free trade agreement this year.
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