
NEW YORK/WASHINGTON: India is a very high tariff nation, US President Donald Trump has said as he reiterated that reciprocal tariffs on countries that impose levies on American goods will kick in on April 2.
“And the big one will be on April 2, when reciprocal tariffs, so if India or China, or any of the countries that really…India is a very high tariff nation,” he said.
“I’ll tell you what’s a high tariff nation – it’s Canada. Canada charges us 250% for our milk product and other products, and a tremendous tariff with lumber and things as such. And yet we don’t need their lumber. We have more lumber than they do. We don’t need Canada’s lumber,” Trump said in the Oval Office on Thursday as he signed some executive orders.
Source: PTI News