Trump promised as part of that agreement to lower his tariff on Indian goods from 50 percent to 18 percent. He said he would do that by eliminating the 25 percent tariff meant to pressure India to stop purchasing Russia oil and by reducing the 25 percent “reciprocal” tariff he also imposed on India.

Former Ambassador Ashok Sajjanhar discussed why the India-US trade deal was announced suddenly.

India currently buys over one million barrels of Russian oil per day, making it Moscow’s second-largest buyer and accounting for nearly a third of India’s total imports.

Looking back on the first year of his second term, President Donald Trump boasts that he has resurrected the American economy by imposing big import taxes on foreign products.