President Donald Trump on Tuesday predicted India will reduce its tariffs to avoid the reciprocal tariffs Trump plans to impose on Wednesday, April 2, which he has proclaimed as “Liberation Day.”
“I think I heard that India just a little while ago is going to be dropping its tariffs very substantially, and I said, ‘why didn’t somebody do this a long time ago?’” Trump said at a press conference on Tuesday.
Trump added that many other countries “will drop their tariffs” because “they have been unfairly tariffing the United States for years.” He cited the European Union’s reduction of auto tariffs by 2.5 percent as an example of what he hopes to see.
White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt on Monday included India
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