“In a nightmare”: Indian arcs for the demobilization of the great workers, where it bites Trump’s tariff Business and economics

New Delhi, India – In a sprawling market in the Indian capital, Anouj Gobta sits in a corner of his store while silence on him.

Gupta sources and export clothes accessories – such as ligaments and buttons – to the major global brands. However, the punishment imposed by US President Donald Trump brought Guba’s work to her knees.

On Wednesday morning, India woke up by 50 percent of the customs tariff imposed on its soldiers sold to the United States, after the Trump administration followed its threat to double the fees from 25 percent due to the purchase of Russian oil in India. The White House says the government of Prime Minister Narendra Modi, among the senior buyers of crude from Russia, is funding the Moscow war in Ukraine. Indian officials have accused Washington of double standards, noting how to buy the European Union and China from Russia and how Washington is also circulating with Moscow.

In the fashion world, the course lasts a year ago, as Gupta explains – the clothes are designed and made for the fall of 2026 at the present time. Therefore, the uncertainty in the market “hindered the work badly”, leaving a “large dent”. Up to 40 percent of his business in the United States market.

Gupta said until Wednesday morning, he was still hoping for hope. “Perhaps Trump may just be bullying for optics, or maybe Modi’s good relations with the United States will save the situation,” he said. “But we were the worst.”

Five rounds of conversations have failed to get a commercial deal between Washington and New Delhi, and Gobta said that exporters are now afraid that their customers may be completely abandoned by India. “If these tensions are prolonged, buyers will search for alternative markets for sources,” he said.

While New Delhi is wrestling with Trump’s moves, which is traveling in the United States of two decades of diplomatic and strategic investments in India, analysts and economic observers say that the customs tariff can destroy the main sectors that export driven into the Indian economy, with hundreds of thousands of jobs in danger.

“It is very helpless”

Ajay Sahai, CEO of the Indian Export Organization (FIEO), was the largest body of the government -backed Indian exporters, hoping with caution in help from the Moody administration after interviewing the country’s Minister of Finance, Nermalla Sitaramann, on Thursday.

“The government has fully assured us that it will provide all kinds of support necessary to navigate this problem, perhaps including the economic package,” Sahai told the island of the island.

“The government asked us to prepare a report, and then they will reach a scheme,” he said. “Sitharaman stressed that there will be no layoffs – this is something that we should honor.”

However, this is easier than doing it.

Textiles, gemstones, jewelry, carpets and shrimp are among the largest exports of India to the United States – and it is expected to be among the worst customs tariffs.

Canad Kumar, who runs Sandhya Marines in the export of shrimp, said nearly 3,500 workers in a coastal town in Andra Pradesh state on Bay Bay, that his work is about to collapse.

More than 90 percent of his company’s shipments are heading to the United States market.

Last year, India exported the highest level ever at 1.78 million metric tons of seafood worth $ 7.38 billion. Shrimp dominates, and 92 percent of the total value contributes. The United States takes more than 40 percent of shrimp shipments in India.

“The shrimp industry is a very thick sector, with small farmers,” said Kumar, who is also leading the branch of Andra Pradesh Association at Andra Pradesh Association at Andra Pradesh Association of Andra Pradesh Association of Andra Pradesh Association of Andra Pradesh Association. Kumar said that with consideration of everyone, nearly two million people are associated with shrimp exports.

Kumar said more than 50 percent of these workers will bear the largest direct burden of Trump’s definitions.

“We are already lying because we cannot continue to pay the salaries without any requests for us,” Kumar told Al -Jazeera. “The young farmers, who peel the shrimp, will be worse because there is no work to employ them.”

Exporters associations estimate that customs tariffs can affect approximately 55 percent of 87 billion dollars of goods exports to the United States – competing with competitors such as Vietnam, Bangladesh and China, which have been subjected to lower rates.

Moody’s classifications noted that Trump’s tariff on Indian imports may slow the economic growth of India. After 2025, the Rating Agency said that the broader tariff gap compared to the other Pacific countries that would severely reduce India’s aspirations to develop its manufacturing sector and may reflect some gains made in recent years in attracting relevant investments.

Kumar said: “It seems as if you were in a nightmare, where you don’t know what the new random tariff number is that you wake up after that,” Kumar said.

Kumar said that the crisis in the past thirty years with the United States feels that the crisis is unlimited. He said, “The United States is playing with us, and doing what they want.” “We are forced to adapt. He feels very impotence.”

“Ban on Indian goods”

Nearly 1000 km (620 miles) from Kumar Factory, fear of Terobur, a city in the southern state of Tamil Nadu, which is the capital of the export of the clothing in India.

Tiruppur is lying on the banks of the Noyyal River and next to Rocky Hillocks, contributing to nearly a third of the total ready -made clothes exports of $ 16 billion. Tiruppur’s profits in US dollars have gained the name “City of Dollar”. The best fashion brands in the world, including Zara and GAP, a source of clothes from here.

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“Where the margins are less, the production is completely stopped,” he said. Elangovan employs 1500 people. He said that about 150,000 workers are losing their jobs due to Trump’s tariff in Terobor.

“It is very difficult to find a new customer in this economy,” he said. “Customer diversification is not similar to a key, which we can run and stop it. Soon, in the future, we will discuss the problems of cash flow, and there will be a lot of cuts in workers.”

Meanwhile, Modi in India took a challenging position on the trade war with the United States.

“India must become self -reliance … economic selfishness is high worldwide and we should not sit and cry on our difficulties,” Modi said in his speech on Independence Day on August 15 of the walls of the red fort in New Delhi.

“Moody will stand like a wall against any policy that threatens its interests. India will never give up when it comes to protecting our farmers’ interests,” said the Prime Minister, in an indirect reference to the points of adherence to commercial negotiations with the United States, which wants greater access to the markets to the cultivation of India and the dairy sector in India. Almost half 1.4 billion people in India depend on agriculture for their livelihood.

But merchants are afraid to leave bleeding in the deal.

Elangovan said: “The government allows us to punch in one eye to save the other eye.” “A 50 percent tariff is practically a ban on Indian goods.”