Perhaps the only positive outcome of the tariff turmoil that the US has plunged the world into is the renewed attention being paid to trade barriers. Across the world, it has led countries to re-examine their own policies. So too in India. It is in this context that comments made by Niti Aayog’s vice-chairperson Suman…
US President Donald Trump’s ‘Liberation Day’ package of tariffs is being interpreted in India in three different ways. The immediate reaction is relief mixed with schadenfreude: At 26%, the tax on India is not the slap on the wrist that diplomats in New Delhi would have hoped for, especially after making concessions to Elon Musk’s…
The US and India, once tethered to market debates in a transactional context, now navigate a relationship redefined by supply-chain wars, tech supremacy and containment of China. Their collaboration—and competition—reveals how commerce is being weaponized in the 21st century, with tariffs, sanctions and industrial policy being deployed for strategic ends. In this milieu, tariffs and…
India’s policymakers should be drawing up strategies to deal with the new age of trade barriers. Instead, they seem to be looking forward to it with a certain confidence, even optimism. There is none of the concern or outrage visible in other countries that US President Donald Trump has targeted. Indeed, if anybody nourished a…
