Full Weight of American Tariffs Slams Into Effect Against India

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/27/business/india-tariffs-trump-russia-oil.html?unlocked_article_code=1.hU8.pVkM.qyMcCfIU7Hsl&smid=url-share

As punishment for buying Russian oil, President Trump is doubling the tax on goods imported from India, jeopardizing a relationship decades in the making.

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LifeInMultipleChoice@lemmy.world · 13 pts · 358d (5 replies)

Apple moved its iPhone 17 production sites to India to avoid tariffs in Chinda didn't they? Now anyone who buys one needs to pay Tariffs to get them into the country right... Or do they have an exemption?

gigachad@piefed.social · 17 pts · 358d (4 replies)

If I remember correctly the apple CEO gifted a bar of gold to Trump in the oval office and now they have an exemption?

Ilovethebomb@sh.itjust.works · 3 pts · 358d

Probably the smartest business decision of his career, that's an astonishingly cheap bribe considering the values involved.

LifeInMultipleChoice@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 358d (1 reply)

What's the point in tarrifs if you exempt the main money makers? What are we taxing, jackfruits?

comrade_twisty@feddit.org · 15 pts · 358d

It’s called extortion, the president is a mobster in chief.

kikutwo@lemmy.world · -1 pts · 358d

You don't remember correctly. It was a gold plated base holding a sample of the new gorilla glass made by Corning.

MyOpinion@lemmy.today · 3 pts · 358d

The full weight of the dumbest pieces of human shit running this country.