India labels Trump's tariffs 'unfair and unjust'

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  Hello, and welcome to World Business Report from the BBC World Service.

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  I'm Roger Hearing, and on this edition,

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  India moves into the era of 50% tariffs on many of its exports to the US.

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  For some businesses, it's a small bump in the road.

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  For others, it's a disaster.

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  By our most conservative projections,

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  these tariffs are going to cost us half a million to three-fourths of 750k,

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  which is just not something that we can withstand.

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  Also today,

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  Donald Trump is threatening the billionaire financier George Soros with an indictment for racketeering,

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  how professional golfers are surviving in Africa,

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  and the aggravation of having to listen to other people's music and entertainment on trains and buses.

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  I just sit there and think, oh, lovely, and then I hear, ah,

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  and it's sometimes very loud, and then they're ringing or they're watching some sort of loud film.

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  She's a bit of a bugbear for me.

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  Well, now London's transport chiefs are trying to do something about it.

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  But first, the time window has closed,

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  and Indian exporters are now dealing with 50% tariffs on many goods that they sell into the US.

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  Donald Trump said it was to punish New Delhi for buying Russian oil.

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  But, of course, their view is very different in India.

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