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While the 50% U.S. tariff hike is a serious blow to industries like gems, jewellery, and electronics, it might not cripple the entire Indian economy. If India can quickly adapt, by diversifying export markets and boosting domestic manufacturing, it could cushion the impact. That said, a move this sudden definitely creates a lot of uncertainty, and the government will need to act fast to avoid longer term damage :/

financefreakbyaks

I don't know, so far I have lost like 15% of my portfolio returns.

takshaksh

Baiyko

Export contribution to India GDP is not much, even if US put import ban GDP growth will slow by .5%

But risk is not on economically but geo politics will also play the role, US is notorious for creating civil war, protest, making govt unstable.

SanjuRai1986

Most media reports give a range of. 4 to. 8 basis point reduction in gdp growth. If the nominal growth for this fiscal was 6.5% then after tarrifs we can expect the growth to be between 5.8 to 6.1%.

So the impact will be there.

gunnvant

What happens when the most convenient kirana stores hikes it's commodity prices? Simple .. you find another one...it just takes time to explore the options...so be it... atleast our dependency is diversified.. which is ofcourse a good thing once the initial emotional burn out

inquisitivesouls

It's not about tariffs but quarter results, once companies start to give good results, market moves in positive/forward growth

Only_bliss_

The erstwhile great economy will suffer a lot. Medical which was already in bad shape would be the worst hit.

Natural_Skill218

Indian government needs to come out and tell people to boycott American brands like Starbucks, McDonalds, KFC etc… . When these US companies loose access to the fastest growing major economy and largest populated, youngest average age country in the world that is where the rubber meets the road. Then you will see Trump come squealing. Indian people if they have any honor need to switch from these and use Indian equivalent firstly and if not use other non American foreign equivalent products.

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What this discussion misses is that US Exxon was in talks to get back into Russian Sakhalin oil project before the tariffs were imposed on India. The whole Ukraine thing was just a red herring. Trump wants to buy cheap Russian oil and force India to buy expensive US energy. A repeat of what US did to EU.


https://www.eurasiantimes.com/putins-alaska-victory-u-s-energy-giant-exxon/?amp

Prottusha1

When was India ever a solid US ally? They spent the cold war playing neutral and most of their combat systems are Russian at this point. The attempt at assassinating people in the US a few years back isn't the sort of thing i expect out of a strong ally.

Tierbook96

It will be rough for 401ks when all the tech companies have to bail on India and have to pay Americans a livable wage to keep their useless products afloat.

Thick_Piece

How come India is being singled out by US when India isn't even the largest buyer of Russian natural gas or oil? And EU themselves know about India and still source refined oil from India. Why not sanction them? 

Oh right, because it was mutually agreed upon by US,EU when Russia was sanctioned that India can still source from Russia so as to not cripple global oil prices.

Why not sanction China more for that matter since they are even offering material support to Russia? Currently it's at 33% or something right? Even lower than India's? And Navarro isn't exactly calling them out either.

Also didn't Trump himself threaten to withdraw Ukraine support without the mineral deal. And apparently, when Trump met with Putin, an energy deal was also one of the considerations in their talk as also indicated by the secret Exxon talks with Russia.

Rules for thee but not for me?

ryizer

The US (since Clinton’s late 2nd term) have worked hard to move India out of the Russian sphere of influence and closer to them. And for all seemingly
Understandable reasons (democracies, trade, Chinese threat etc). 

However one nonsensical move seems to be undoing all that. Hopefully common sense prevails that one person cannot derail all that hard work, that nations are above non-sensical moves.  

Work has been done to understand the impact of these tariffs (not on petroleum or pharma ). The impact will be on less than 3% of Indian exports globally.

hinterstoisser

India has never been a strong ally. More like alliance of convenience.... Very fairweather with who they will consider interests above Thier immediate interests

One_Put50

This is such an epic fuckup. Keeping India close is probably the most important strategic decision America could make for the next 30 years. Towards the end of that timeframe it will likely overtake the US in GDP.

turb0_encapsulator

Solid Ally? This reporting is questionsable. The US tried to woo India but it definitely played as being 'neutral'. 

  
Not that we've been good to Denmark or Canada mind but the Indians have played a foolish foreign policy built on arrogance despite their weak hand.

Meandering_Cabbage

Sad part is it is all happening because of Lunatic trump whose agenda is to shove US &amp;it's allies and US led order, and sadly Indians were also big worshippers of him. I remember the time they used sad bad things about Biden while he was the kindest President to them and did understand great deal about India, neither forced them to do anything. Now enjoy!

Itchy_Performance_80

Its obvious hes targeting the BRICS countries

innocentious

They should have added "THANKS FOR YOUR ATTENTION TO THE MATTER".

Swag_infinite

As a UK national, it's impossible not to feel VERY small post Brexit.

prefabtrout

Being a citizen of one of the BRICS is to hear your whole life that your country "is not serious"... until Trump proves that Washington is not either.

matheushpsa

It’s refreshing to see the Indian side respond professionally, unlike the US President posting on X.

jayy1709

Good response from India. Just the facts.

How many Americans know that the US is an IMPORTER of nuclear fuel materials from Russia? When the Ukraine conflict invasion by Russia started, I was surprised to find this out, and I've been in the energy business for a good part of my professional career! Russian uranium glows just like American uranium, except that the Russian kind lines the pockets of Mr. Putin and his Oligarchs.

lookskAIwatcher

Also, if the West actually cared, they’d sanction Israel.

Lovefoolofthecentury

toomin10

No-Secretary5892

Using logic? Do they not know how to negotiate in 2025? Bribes, gifts, flattery and "thank you"s.

PseudoTsunami

Training_Caregiver67

Mike drop

But also - what the hell is that font?

hamiltonisoverrat3d

EU and USA together has failed to stop the war, Trump said it would be over within a week if he became president. Now the sole reason they can come up with is that they are unable to stop war because India and China keeps buying Russian oil. So convenient to shift the blame of your failure. If USA thinks it’s bad to buy Russian oil then it should get it sanction as well. It’s not like India is buying something which is sanctioned.

anfumann

The day PEDOnald took that $400 plane bribe from Qatar was the day I knew the US-India relations were doomed. 

CampEmbarrassed170

India is trying to be reasonable about tariffs that were put on them for the most unreasonable and illogical reasons.

Intelligent-Parsley7

Incredible economic and diplomatic genius display from Trump and his red hat retards

JonFrost

Firstly, Russian oil is not banned. There’s a G7 cap on its price and India is buying well under it. The cap was designed to keep oil market prices stable because removing Russian energy would spook prices and create inflation all over the world.

Europe continues to buy Russian energy even today, so does China. In fact, Russian pipeline gas exports to Europe rose 37% month on month in July. Even the US continues to buy chemicals and nuclear fuel from Russia. Yet, why single out India as fueling the Russian war machine?

moshikins22

Isn't palladium used in catalictic converters?

saagc

This is crazy, the plain hypocrisy. [https://www.instagram.com/p/DND99sKSKZN/?utm\_source=ig\_web\_copy\_link&amp;igsh=MWdkOG80YzRtb2gxYg==](https://www.instagram.com/p/DND99sKSKZN/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link&amp;igsh=MWdkOG80YzRtb2gxYg==) 

biting the hand that feeds you. [https://www.news18.com/india/trump-calls-india-dead-economy-but-his-largest-real-estate-business-outside-us-is-here-report-ws-l-9488093.html](https://www.news18.com/india/trump-calls-india-dead-economy-but-his-largest-real-estate-business-outside-us-is-here-report-ws-l-9488093.html)

kennyougetalife

Made in india🇮🇳✅🆗
Made in America 💲💵❌🙅‍♂️🙅‍♀️
Ameriki saman ko boycott karo koi bhi le. Uski public shaming karo video banao status mai dalo ki kisi ne bhi liya publically humiliate karenge

LegitimateSell6

They are buying oil for cheap from Russia but still selling it at a premium to indian consumers. 100 Rupees a liter is not cheap! Both sides are playing games.

Opening_Magician6513

While the EU and US contributions to the Russian economy are not insignificant, they have greatly pulled back since the Ukraine war began. In that time, India and China have filled a large chunk of the void left behind. 

The Indian government can claim hypocrisy all they want but there is no denying they and China are propping up the Russian economy far more than Russia's other trading partners.

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/8/5/india-accuses-us-eu-of-russia-trade-double-standards-who-is-right

Am4oba

krispisss

India spends 68 billion on Russian oil compared to the 1 billion the US spends on Russian uranium.  Not exactly apples to apples.

Bad_User2077

Modipaglus have gone crazy since Trump announced those tariffs.

UNREAL_REALITY221

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Does anyone know if India has a scamming culture?

tragedyy_

India has been raping the US for decades. Any sanctions aren't enough 

Prudent-Energy7412

India’s relations to Russia are the result of America policies over the past 70 years. Please read up on history.

VayuAir

Tariffs only raise money if trade continues. And they simultaneously discourage trade. . .they are a really shitty way of raising revenue.

Pure_Bee2281

I feel so sorry for Americans who believe the universe revolves around them. The clear decline of their country will show them how untrue this is in a few years. You want to punish india for buying Russian oil? What about the EU and China ? They’re too strong for you to be able to mess with them ? 
What about you helping Israel to destroy Gaza ? Oh and please let me know when you find WMDs in Iraq. Also how did it go”helping” the afghans with the Taliban?

It won’t impact India because India isn’t paying tariffs. You know that, right? You’re paying it. The tariffs you propose for call centers? You’d be paying that, too. Can we please stop suggesting other countries are paying tariffs? We should be well beyond that misguided economic concept by now. Every outlet and publication has been hammering this message for months. The US is essentially punching itself in the face. Or more accurately, Trump is punching you in the face. Every day, you’re taking another shot.

ChalkLicker

Emergency-Painting24

40 billion just doesn’t appear. Someone pays it. And someone passes that along to someone else. FDT.

Economx_Guru

If u want the gas price to soar up by 50% we can stop buying russian oil.

AnywhereNo259

Hypocrisy.. western nations first stop buying from Russia.. fertilizers , metal , LNG all are flowing.. even Ukraine is allowing gas to Europe via pipeline… who are you to punish a strong nation… India will stand strong and will continue well .. India will look at its personal interest first and not becoming puppet ..

jordan3184

&gt;pharmaceuticals, diamonds

Both of them are exempted under his tariffs

yaaro_obba_

Pardon me, but in my whole 15 years of career as an analyst (includes 4 years of geopolitical analysis), I have never seen such flawed and biased analysis. Don't make your opinion based on random theories or commentaries. Please read at least 15 articles from credible sources (just FYI, timesofindia, India tv and ndtv are not considered credible) on how these tariffs will impact India, USA, and world + which all industry lobbies in the USA are behind this and why exactly agriculture and some other sectors have restrictions on foreign investment. We can then have a healthy discussion.

Medical_Midnight9171

Nope, the us public should bear the cost of terrifs. there is no way they are going to get cheaper medicines from anywhere else.

nirvana_seeker_

No, gujrat won't be affected. Even the peers are tariffed higher or similar. Most trade deals in Asia has 20% tariffs and china 50%. 

So it won't impact much. Even his best allies got 15%.

Dry-Expert-2017

OkAstronaut2570

There is also penalty that you have forgotten. There is no solution to this problem. We cannot afford to stop trade with Russia and we cannot allow import of agricultural produce.

wiifii111

Hey OP. None of the arguments you mentioned hold substance. May i ask whats your background. I will be able to make counter comments accordingly. The concepts you arrived at are flawed.

gametemboltonai

DonaldTrumpReborn

We were paying 100% terrif or maybe more for imported items from USA. These tariffs will affect both the parties but not on a large scale. On the other hand, india has made a deal with UK.

PrachandNaag

OP using ChatGPT instead of doing research.

DefiantDriver7484

Educational_Aide8131

Destroy??

Did sanctions post 1998 Pokhran Tests "DESTROY" Gujarat or India??

Please get used to hard life and scarcity as well. Country comes first.

For example, are you ok eating GM foods or non veg milk (cows eating pork,buffalo and all as feed) 🤢🤮🤮🤮🤮

Ekla_Bhediya

jeetdactyl

Genetically modified food  are not good quality of food

raj_231

This write up is highly polarised on state and brings the western angle to the north south debate. Moreover, it’s Shameful really because it talks about opening our market to US agriculture. OP has absolutely ZERO sense of what actually is the US agriculture economy. Says, opening up agriculture to Us will lead to betterment in price and quality. It’s amusing how intellectually innocent OP is, or is pretending to be. 

Granted, Gujarat may be an export driven economy. However, merely increasing tariffs won’t decrease the export by a whole lot because this is a way of ‘artificially’ reducing demand. It’s not authentic. And the world market doesn’t have too many options of getting the same stuff in bulk because that’s simply inefficient. 

OP brings in the environmentalist in him/her to say ‘North Indian agriculture already is hurting the groundwater and environment’. Let me ask OP, where the atta and the rice in their kitchen have come from? Did you bother to check? Or are you fine being a part of exploitation of natural resources as long as it fills your belly up? Do you think Gujarat’s agriculture sector is much advanced or environmentally friendly? 

OP is naive if they think opening up India’s agri sector will benefit us or Indian farmers in any way. The fundamental difference between US agriculture and Indian Agriculture is that in India, agriculture is still an individual pursuit, whereas in the US it’s a corporate pursuit. The aim is financial for both, but the way they go about it is very different. If opened, our agri sector will start getting captured by companies like Bayer and Monsanto. Farmers get caught in endless debt cycles indebted to these companies because they will be forced to buy seeds from the companies each season. The local biodiversity of crops will vanish within a few years. And if the farmer is paying more, so will the customer. I have personal interest in this issue, and have already researched in my Masters thesis about biodiversity and crops and their interplay with MNCs. 

OP is whitewashing the environmental pollution the Gujarat does while cribbing about everything other regions do. 
Lot of gloom and doom being projected but there’s clearly a void of thought here. More mischief and malicious than knowledgeable, OP. Disgusting.

abhishyam2007

Lol. This is nonsense. Get your head out of your ass

Varunacharya

HiPoojan

You are talking about tariff will destroy Gujarat whilst Russia and Iran grew their economy with complete sanctions. Pretty sure Gujarati will export through UK even though it will hit their margin but not much

Other_Employer726

This is probably a paid account. Less than 20 comments in two years, but suddenly becomes an economist with expertise in world politics. Pops out separatist propaganda and calls for "urgent revolution", you can't be serious!

I am glad this sub is not falling for this nonsense. Should be downvoted to oblivion.

dobby_thefreeelf

Just like China dumps it's excess produce on other countries of the world, Gujarat can also do the same. USA is not the only country which buys goods which Gujarat exports or makes. Expanding our export reach to other smaller countries will make us stronger in time, instead of thinking that only US can make or break our economy

Pop_Knee

"Gujarat needs a revolution" Seriously? This is alarmist and unnecessarily dramatic. Gujarat has weathered global oil shocks, GST transitions, and demonetisation. Its economic base is strong and diverse ports, manufacturing, services, and more. My entire family is either into mfg and export or just export, and yet none of them are worried, gujarat apna dekh lega bhai. 

Also, India’s top export destinations are diversified, not U.S.-centric bhai. Germany, UAE, and other asian countries are also top importers from gujarat. Gujarat’s economy is exposed to the U.S., but not dependent on it.

DieWalkure6

Well then bear with it, what is more important for you, Gujarat's economic well being (which is not going to be affected, and you're imagining stuff), or the livelihood of 700 million of your countrymen who depend on agriculture, msme sectors, etc.?

oldowl777

Wait and watch, India as whole is resilient will only move upwards from here.

degen_tbk

You have no idea about what you're talking about

InflationNo3252

Bunch of whatapp analysts on this site, Just try importing anything into India and the customs charge anywhere from 50% to 100%. Recently I had to get items from another country as it isnt available anywhere in India. The cost of the items was just $300. Well I had to pay another Rs. 12k at the time of delivery which is including GST on the entire amount and then some total bullshit called Social Welfare surcharge. The gov collects GST and keeps it all for itself as there is no ITC credit since the seller is from another country.

The gov rips everyone off with tariffs.

Now in this light so many gurus and economists go on news and TV and talk about how US tariffs are bad for this and that. They should atleast have the decency to point out the Indian gov itself has massive tariffs for everything. While sitting in a country that has huge tariffs on every imaginable item, they are blaming other countries

If you are importing certain category items like cars, you will pay 120% of the cost of that in tariffs.

Fit-Somewhere281

Nothing is going to happen, please. I have a manufacturing unit in Gujarat and export to the US. The US will backtrack. We export stuff that is hard to procure from the rest of the world, including China. I am sure that is the case with many Gujarat based pharma companies.

Organic-Bug9844

VigilantPanda0056

So it's either picking gujarat (26 lok sabha seats ) or north (100 lok sabha seats)?

Affectionate_Ad_9263

Its a massive diplomatic failure of Feku and party

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