Trump calls the commercial relationship of India-the United States a “completely one disaster”

On Monday, US President Donald Trump doubled his criticism of India, and called on trade relations with the country, “completely one disaster!” After Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi visited China to attend the Shanghai Cooperation Summit.

Trump also said in a post on the social truth that India offered to reduce the customs tariff to zero, but it was “delayed”, and that the country should have done so “years ago”, without clarification when such an offer was made.

This comes against the background The United States, which imposes a 50 % tariff on the countryIncluding 25 % secondary duties last month to buy Russian oil, which India described “unfair, unjustified and unreasonable.

Trump repeated that India was buying oil and weapons from Russia, and accused New Delhi of selling “huge quantities of goods”, but imposes a high tariff on American exports to India.

“The reason is that India has imposed on us, yet, such high definitions, most of which are from any country, that our actions are unable to sell in India. It was a completely one disaster!” books.

Data from the World Trade Organization It indicates that India imposes a average tariff of 6.2 % on US imports in the country, on the basis of port, while the United States meets 2.4 % on Indian goods. The weighted average trade is the average rate of duty for each imported unit.

The United States has been strained in the past two months, as it has raised more than two decades to improve relations, as many American officials have increased the New Delhi criticism of Russian oil imports. India The American and European Union called for Their trade with Russia, with the targeting of New Delhi.

“It reveals that the countries that criticize India are itself indulging in trade with Russia. Unlike our condition, this trade is not even a vital national coercion (for them),” the Indian Foreign Ministry said last month.

Again in May, India was According to what was reported, “zero in exchange for zero” was presented The tariff deal on steel, car components and pharmaceutical preparations on a mutual basis, up to a certain amount of imports. However, New Delhi and Washington failed to reach a commercial deal, which prompted Trump to Impose 50 % Definitions on Indian exports.

The Indian Moody met with Chinese President Xi Jinping at the SCO summit in Tianjin, which was held between August 31 and September 1, with both sides affirming the importance of being partners, not competitors.

“Improving relations with India is a great thing. It allows India to reach the very intellectual property that it needs if it is to manufacture and increase manufacturing,” said Marco Babic, the chief strategy, the geoomaker strategy.

“However, in the long run, the United States is losing the battle of advertising to paint China as the head of problems. This increases the expression of pluralism,” he said.

Evelyn Cheng of CNBC contributed to this report.