Washington: US President Donald Trump hit India with a 26 per cent tax on its exports to America despite making friendly noises about New Delhi and its efforts to buy time and avert punitive tariffs with broad concessions on US imports to India.
At a White House Rose Garden event on Wednesday on what he called "Liberation Day" for the US, India became a middling victim in Trump's take-no-prisoner approach that treated friend and foe alike with a two-tier tariff: a baseline tax of 10% on all countries that will go into effect on April 5, and additional tariffs on some countries that he considers to be the "worst offenders," that will be imposed on April 9.
