Overall, public sentiment is deeply frustrated with President Trump's tariff threats against India, leading to strong support for India's position and a desire for greater independence in international trade. Many commenters express national pride and resilience, while also advocating for closer ties with Russia and other countries to navigate the tensions, further indicating skepticism towards the long-term effectiveness of tariffs.

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Just when things were going well in my portfolio.🥱

HiggsBoson-17

US has been funding terrorism in Pakistan for so many years. Noone even blinks an eye on this.
This m*ducker will take everyone down with him.

22nik

Today I said it and I'll say it again, is duniya k gend buddho ne hi mari hai.

oldval

Bc khud to zindagi set + khatam hai inki, 19-35 walo ki maar rahe h

consciousgrowth101

US prez talking about funding terrorism, what a joke!

man_idk_clueless

US is funding all kinds of non-sense across the world including pakistan but yeah money is power.

unsocialcyborg

He is having his mood swings..Will reduce the tariff by mid October..

God_Jilha

Dumbsssss69

India is not the idle middleman. We process the oil and Europe buys it. So who is funding the war.
And why the fuck should we care about Ukraine?
Who pledged to protect ukraine?

Did the West care about India in any conflict for decades ?

marsianmonk77

Has anyone once calculated the cost-benefit analysis of cheap oil versus profits from improved demand for Indian goods in a low-tariff scenario?

Bos_gaurus

He doesn't have the balls to say anything to China. He's just bullying now. 

And we should not stand up to bullies.

zicrono

If by any chance, all the BRICS nation decide to lay down 50-100% US import customs like India does, NASDAQ mar jayega shayad.

J92M98

Russian oil is bought by Ambani and refined and sold to EU countries. None of our Indian oil or HP or BP buys Russian oil for retail in India. Ambani gains and now other sector exporters are going to pay for it.

mithrayogesh

dolund just wants to prove that what hesays is being considered and acted upon by the entire world.

anuragrajput_

Chronology samjhiye.

The only countries that can counter USA are China and Russia, and there are 2 countries that are very close to China - India and Pakistan. Pakistan me kuch din pehle Lonald ji ne petroleum reserve dhunda hai - iykyk. Ab India ko jhukana hai taaki China ko check kar sakein.

juzzybee90

What evidence he has of India selling the Russian oil. He just shoots from the hip, earlier he was talking about decreasing drug rates by 1500%.He truly is a blot on leadership.

xerxes_dandy

Its a buying opportunity. Ignore trump and look for opportunity to buy good stocks at discounted price.

iamlion03

All Modi has to do is publically support Trumps bid for Noble Prize.. he'll bring it down

Wizardofoz756

Tariffs paid by india. Bro meant to say increased prices for american citizens. Tariff increases in most cases are entire passed down as price increases via a tariff adjustment or lack of supply leading to inflation

Divyansh881

There are no friends in geopolitics, only temporary interests

siachenbaba

Intelligent_File_216

Idk but India exports barely any significant number of goods to the US. The main export of India is services bcs Chinas industrial power was too powerful. Service can’t be tariffed except he invents some made up US to Indian worker ratio and tariffs the tech companies ….

No-Detective5439

paranoid_persona

EmotionalQuarter8349

Bring some tariffs! We can’t wait to find another market to sell!

PuzzleheadedCar9154

I read some comments and people here are hanging on threads of hope..  like dude.. we have officially got no word from govt yet.. its only mouth pieces that are talking about this. 

I am saving up for the winter mofos, cuz i am sure the summer had already gone a decade ago.

varunisherenow

The POTUS lecturing about funding wars. USA is responsible for almost all the wars which are happening at the moment. 😂

Dante__fTw

Ek baat pucho Russian oil se kisko fayda ho rha ? Just Bambani and govt, people are still paying the same price for oil

Comprehensive_Air185

When all markets are hitting new all time highs, we struggle. Seems like catch up of things that we outperformed world markets from 2021-2023.

iwonttolerateyou2

As long as IT services are not tariffed we are fine

Sufficient_Ad991

mera_desh_mahan

stupidcoffeeshop

Who cares? He is testing India’s resolve and when will we budge.. We survived 1998 sanctions by US, which went for 3 years. His term ends in 3. These Trump years will be the years of consolidation.

Broad_Pie_2879

In a nutshell, the US of A views India as a helpless consumer state. Their strategic interests have always been to feed us Sub standard tech and offer their companies a lifeline. 

China does more trade with the Russians than India does. The US was the first to ignore this and quickly wrap up a decent trade deal that worked in their favour. 

India is the perpetual scapegoat. US never was and never will be India's friend for these reasons. 

Let that sink in.

random_as_

CoolPineapple6969

US sellers in India are required to establish and Indian entity and pay taxes to the indian government - federal, state, and local. 

Indians companies like Jubiliant foodworks, hardcastle, connaught, yum foods, and devyani run Dominos, Mcd, and KFC franchises in India. The same applies to Coke and Pepsi. It's never a one way street. 

You may now get back to seething and coping.

nophatsirtrt

We have our IT service industry to loose, our major export to US is not goods but service, which is more than 100bn dollar...IF EU also aligned with US, than definitely pressure can be created on USA...

Bps33382

Trump is doing the right thing. BRICS should accelerate cooperation between asia and the global south. BRICScoin can unleash the potential of 70% of global workforce.

JustASheepInTheFlock

Novel_Preference_746

You can't ban US tech giants. Whole Indian IT sector is based on the services provided by these.

JulaabGamoon

Indians getting furious over Trump’s 25% tariff is kind of ironic when you consider how insane India’s own import duties are.

Try importing a phone, laptop, or even a pair of sneakers into India, you'll get slapped with 30-100% in taxes and customs. Luxury cars? Might as well double the price.

Every country protects its interests.

hasSentYouAReel

India doesn't export much. 


How will tarrifs hurt?

KanonKaBadla

They number of chu in this sub is remarkable.

Strict_Fly_4134

Yes act tough against China, Tough against the  US.
And end up going back economically 30 years.

You can't pick fight against both US and China especially given the current state of  India

unemployeddumbass

No need to go all on Jingoism. The best response to this is no response which the Indian government has officially given. We have noted their move and said nothing. Basically saying that this is beneath our attention. Trump seeks attention and when denied gives tantrums.

Next we should buy Russian 5th generation planes and S500. That will be again a proclamation that we are unfazed by your theatrics and it will force me to take harder stance.

DisastrousAd4963

Expert_Part_9115

Don't ban tencent  i like clash royal, clash of clans

ProfessionMoney9624

Thank god you are not the Prime Minnister.

SILVER00009

Our entire IT industry depends on the US. They have very strong hold on us. We cannot directly go against them.

ProfessionalMovie759

Wait till trump taxes offshoring companies for 25 percent . All our our balls will fall down then 🤣

play3xxx1

sayytoabhishekkumar

TACO  - TRUMP always chickens out, Market don't care no more. It's time we show him bullying is not acceptable

Right. Why shouldn’t be cut off the branch we are sitting on? Might as well poison the ground while we are at it.

Warm_Application_407

the real issue is India doesn't have capital, energy and a lot of natural resources. if it did, we could just ignore Trump, but we need $$$ to buy all those so we'd be forced to trade

Big_Suggestion7728

What will be scenario for Indian IT companies ?

benevolent001

As good as this sounds its not ideal, if they retaliate with a barrier on Indian services a lot of us would loose our jobs.

Abhishekm_01

Force big Indian corps to spend on R&amp;D and establish funds. Whole Indian startup world runs with American private equity money.

ConsciousSoul_

Everyday I'm glad the common regard is not in charge of policy. At least upsc filters that away

Arinupa

I'm not thinking about these at all, if you get trade deal with 15% tarrif, then 25% is like nothing. If we see long term horizon, India needs to heavily focus to become an manufacturing hub. The majority revenue still comes from service sector. AI is coming and in future, u know I know what is going to happen ultimately.

Day_Dreamer_2025

Uhh you will lose posting on here and all those WhatsApp jokes

Dismal-Lunch3201

It's culturally fucking hard because Indian culture is not detail oriented, and disregards the final finishing touch.

Without changing this, it's very hard to make progress.

You can see this just by the difference in service between Amazon and Flipkart. Both are US owned but Flipkart was home grown. So their attitude towards customer service is Indian minded.

This is all too common. Even when an Indian company charges a premium price for a product or service, they don't consistently maintain a high standard. Manu have noticed this especially outside India where an Indian restaurant is staffed by mostly Indians or Locals. 

It's not that Indians can't do it, Indians when among others do fine, but when it's Indian top down, there's this complacency about not going the last mile for the customer experience.

Edit: this low effort/complacency is also known in software world. Indian software exports are known to be cheap and sloppy. But reasonable price and respectable quality is where the value creation happens. This is how China eventually excelled.

OpenSourcePenguin

Understand one thing - Trump is not the USA. Learn to differentiate between the two. He is here for 2-3 years and you don't destroy relations with the most powerful country in the world because of one president's tantrums. 

This is the playbook that all countries in the world are playing right now and India should be no different.

Diabolic_commentor

stockman9999999

If these companies provide so little differentiated value, surely Indian brands can do the same (and avoid being double taxed in US  and India) generating higher returns. Alternatively, if US brands are overwhelmingly more effective either through operational efficiency or profits from economic scarcity (owning premium real estate or exclusive supply chain contracts) then Indian firms are better investing excess capital in US stocks. I think the reality is neither, US firms have selective edge in product development and Indian firms have management ego problem. This leaves Indian consumers paying for the inefficiency through imported goods.

vulcan257

kittypartty

Nothing to lose?🤣 they don't have the balls to call out Trump's lie, Trump got Adani by his balls.

TreBliGReads

Wouldn't it be easier just to have reciprocal tariffs? So if US imposes 25% tariif, India also impose 25% tariff?
   
 Currently Indian tariff are high in most items under the pretext of 'protecting local business ' or 'anti-dumping' measures. 
 
While it's a risk, India should consider relaxing tariffs and create a free trade practices. Indian businesses can compete and will compete in free marketplace.

PuneFIRE

Here is my answer with experience. Lift all ban from Chinese. In past I work for ecommerce startup and we used do crores worth sale from Tiktok. After I started my startup, I sold huge no  of electronics on ClubFactory which Zero fees for platform, my projection was to reach 1 cr sale in year until, in covid our govt banned it. While I was getting screw on Amazon than Flipkart. Now they have monopoly on everything. Lets bring Chinese here on 50:50 partnership  give them access to our economy in exchange of Money and Tech. Only then we can survive and have our own industry.

AHVANstartup

InternetLong4813

We don't have the cards to play against US, they provide a lot of big opportunities to us so it's a bad idea to mess up our service exports

[deleted]

Lol. Emotions don't run the market, not entirely. Check the status of trade with China if you want a reality check. For a country that was planning to boycott china a couple of years ago, they're our largest trading partner today. It did not work for Swadeshi movement a century odd ago, it's not working with make in India now and it sure as hell won't work with MAGA manufacturing in USA. When people say history repeats itself, this is it. But we still push for the same things again and again.

_saiya_

I think it’s time for the govt to stop protecting industries as any which way they aren’t doing much beyond copying stuff. If someone who can spend 30 lacs on a car, let them buy Tesla for 30 lacs than forcing him to make a choice between 25 lacs Mahindra vs 60 lacs Tesla

davemano

Does OP even understand how fast food franchises work. They are owned by Indians, they source ingredients from wherever they want, they only pay a royalty to McDonald’s USA.

This exact mindset has brought us here. The world trade works on dollars which we need. One more stupid action and soon we would be next Iran but with the world's largest population.

Puzzleheaded-Ant-912

I don't understand why you're feeling that way. All he wants is a free market, and when we’re imposing high tariffs on U.S. goods, why would you expect Trump to just sit back and do nothing? He’s as reactive as a school kid with envy.

datawarrior123

we should partner with china and make our relations better with china first. if china and india come together america would be in dusts.

Capable-Buddy-1116

Acceptable_Recipe_32

This was only done for Ambanis advantage, recheck which companies invested in Ambani ki ghar ki dukaan

ban flipkart and amazon
quick commerce is already replacing them

PlantTreesEveryday

Apple using cheap labor in India and generating profit !

Free_Persimmon_8475

India just allowed Jane Street to continue operations if looting after a small fine. India is 🐓

Exciting_Strike5598

Ambani Reliance ko aisa chlata jesi iski ghar ki dukaan ho, bhul gya wo ki it is a publicly listed company and public holds 49% shares. Apne ghamand mai desh ko mt barbaad kr Mota bhai

Delusion. The amount of money US companies make from India is tiny and won’t even make a dent in their overall earnings. Nike India makes like $120-150M - less than 0.3% of its global revenues

Meanwhile if the US slaps tariffs on Indian service sector, not only will the sector lose tens of billions, it will also become uncompetitive because you’re practically just working on cost arbitrage

No-Way7911

Tough stance, my foot. Modi, Jaishankar will be begging. Or Indian exports get obliterated.

almost_dubaid

We must boycott all USA software companies!!

Galaxy_AI

My view: No matter what tariff rates are fixed, the Indian and the US economy will get used to it. 

There will be some sector specific short term advantages or disadvantages. But the entrepreneurs will find a way to do business together. Tariffs are not bad for India. They are bad for the US as well. 

No country can live in seclusion in this globalized world. The markets do not like uncertainty. Even if it is 25%, the markets will discount this news this week itself. 

6 months from now, we will not even talk about tariffs. Do not panic. Stick to the good stocks in your portfolio. 

One year from now, you will see good returns in your portfolio.

sssallmails

So US households will be affected more because imports will be expensive.    
But the majority of Indian exports are services(unaffected by tarrifs) so India won't be affected?     
Which is it?

manek101

Since these tariffs are non uniform, there will be differing impacts on different countries.

For example a 25% tariff on India vs 5% tariff on Bangladesh will kill our textile industry.

Clearhead_Gearhead

This is like taking comfort in knowing that your r3t@rded opponent in a knife fight suffered a more horrible damage than you but you yourself have permanently damaged some of your organs.

fantom_1x

the US hegemony as we all see and experienced is having it's last breath. I like what Trump is doing because he's inadvertently enabling the faster decimation of that hegemony. a multipolar world order is the need

Emergency-Bid-8346

Government should not panic and be intimidated by this a\*\*hole's tariff. US wants free access to India which means Oil, Dairy, Farming industries which will hurt us badly in long run. So find a sweet spot even if some of these tariff's stay.

Normal_Present_7194

Trump is working on tariffs for bond interest payment from people's pockets.

The bond coupon for their $34 trillion book is $1 trillion.

Hence he is pleading for fed rate cut which is not happening hence he is pumping oil and increasing tariffs.

madmax292

The way I see it this :

These tariffs are just an import tax paid by the importer. So, these 25% tariff on India would've hurt us if other countries are at 0%. As then, Indian goods will become expensive in US.
But this is just an arm twisting tactic. US is not the only trade partner of India. India also has a robust domestic market. Let the Americans shoot themselves in the foot. We should just wait patiently and weather the foolishness.

TheMarineEngr

But what about other countries like Vietnam, Indonesia etc? If they can bring down their tariff rate, then why would US buy from us?

Human_Way1331

Different-Tree8450

This is a classic case of short-term political optics causing long-term economic damage to the US itself.

The global economy isn’t what it used to be. You can’t just throw a 25% tariff at a structurally embedded partner like India and expect no consequences. From pharma to IT to electronics, the US is *deeply reliant* on Indian supply chains. Disrupting that only increases costs for American businesses and consumers.

Meanwhile, India has quietly built resilience a booming services sector, growing ties with the EU and Middle East, and a domestic market that’s more than ready to absorb demand shifts. This tariff may sting short term, but it’s likely to push India toward **stronger strategic autonomy** and reduced dependency on the US — which may actually benefit India in the long run.

Funny how history keeps repeating itself. The Smoot-Hawley tariff taught us how protectionism can backfire looks like Washington skipped that chapter.

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