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Donald Trump imposed 50% tariffs on most US imports from India, making good on a threat to punish one of the world’s largest economies over its purchases of discounted Russian oil.

The tariffs, which came into effect just after midnight on Wednesday in Washington, risk inflicting significant damage on the Indian economy and further disrupting global supply chains.

US tariffs of 25% on Indian goods went into force earlier this month, but Trump announced plans to double the rate, citing New Delhi’s purchases of Russian oil, which the White House has argued is indirectly funding Russia’s war against Ukraine.

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[–] yogthos@lemmy.ml 34 points 1 week ago (17 children)

Trump should be nominated as an honorary ambassador for BRICS. Nobody has done more to push China and India together than Trump.

[–] FriendBesto@lemmy.ml 7 points 5 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (5 children)

Objectively so should Biden then. His weaponization of the Swift system 100% accelerated the desire for most of the world to say, "Fuck the USA and its dollar." Then, "No thanks. Let's see what else is out there."

Or did people already forgot that happened? And this is not me taking a side, that did happen. I think the USA is partly foundering and I do not blame you. The USA is increasing your debt by like a trillion every 100 days or so. I was talking to some friends in Finance a while ago about how the USA's debt was flying past $33 trillion, and that was last year, I thing you guys passed $37 trillion recently and are still using the commodity of the dollar as a weapon. Most of the world sees this and thinks, they can do that to anyone they do not like, that could be us in the future.

[–] ki9@lemmy.gf4.pw -2 points 5 days ago

How was SWIFT weaponized? U.S. isn't in SWIFT.

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