Year-long talks cost us Quad summit: Democrat slams Trump over India trade deal
India Today
US Congresswoman and Democrat Sydney Kamlager-Dove slammed President Donald Trump for dragging on trade deal negotiations with India for a year, saying it cost them the Quad Leaders Summit.
Democrat and US Congresswoman Sydney Kamlager-Dove has slammed President Donald Trump for his tariffs on India, saying the consequence was the sacrifice of carefully woven trust between the two nations. "50 per cent tariffs on India, one of the highest rates in the world, tore a needless rupture in bilateral ties that sacrificed decades of painstaking trust building between our two countries," she said.
Kamlager-Dove also blasted the Trump administration for taking an entire year to reach a trade deal consensus with India.
"Dragging on negotiation for over a year caused us a timely convening of the annual Quad Leaders Summit," she said.
The Quad Summit, which was scheduled to take place in Delhi, India, in 2025 could not be held after all, since Trump snubbed the event amid strained ties with the country. The Quad comprises India, the US, Japan and Australia.
Trump had imposed a whooping 50 per cent tariffs on India, one of the highest rates besides Brazil. This included a 50 per cent penalty for New Delhi's imports of Russian crude oil that Washington DC claimed was financing Moscow's war with Ukraine.
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