{"id":63880,"date":"2025-08-07T00:53:11","date_gmt":"2025-08-07T00:53:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/63880\/"},"modified":"2025-08-07T00:53:11","modified_gmt":"2025-08-07T00:53:11","slug":"india-hit-with-50-tariffs-trump-targets-100-duties-on-semiconductors-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/63880\/","title":{"rendered":"India hit with 50% tariffs, Trump targets 100% duties on semiconductors"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"yf-1090901\">President Trump has hit India with an <a data-i13n=\"cpos:1;pos:1\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/articles\/2025-08-06\/trump-hits-india-with-additional-25-tariff-over-russia-oil-buys?srnd=phx-politics\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:additional 25%;cpos:1;pos:1;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">additional 25%<\/a> tariff due to India&#8217;s purchase of Russian oil. The US president threatened India with higher tariffs earlier this week, which India&#8217;s Prime Minister Narendra Modi called &#8220;unjustified,&#8221; also calling out the US for its double standard over Russia.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-1090901\">In an interview with CNBC on Tuesday, Trump said that India was helping to fuel the war machine.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-1090901\">\u201cThey\u2019re fueling the war machine. And if they\u2019re going to do that, then I\u2019m not going to be happy,\u201d Trump said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-1090901\">In the early days of trade negotiations, relations between the US and India appeared more friendly, with both sides saying they would reach a deal within days. However, over recent months ,things seem to have turned sour as neither side can agree on some of the finer details within the deal, which concern dairy and agricultural products.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-1090901\">As a result, a trade war seems to have developed between the two sides, and now with this additional 25% tariff gift from Trump to Modi, the two seem further away from reaching an agreement than ever before.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"President Trump has hit India with an additional 25% tariff due to India&#8217;s purchase of Russian oil. The&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":51551,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[4,450,451,2344,3,968,47112,5337,452,453],"class_list":["post-63880","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-breaking-news","tag-breaking-news","tag-breakingnews","tag-headlines","tag-india","tag-news","tag-president-trump","tag-russian-war-in-ukraine","tag-tariff-rate","tag-top-stories","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63880","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=63880"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63880\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/51551"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=63880"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=63880"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=63880"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}