Trump's 50% tariff on India kicks in

特朗普对印度实施的50%关税正式生效。

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2025-08-27

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Donald Trump's steep 50% tariffs on India have kicked in, weeks after the US president issued an executive order imposing an additional 25% penalty on India over its purchases of Russian oil and weapons. Also on the programme, we speak a US senator recently back from Syria on the situation in the country; and, how a K-Pop animated movie became Netflix's biggest hit. (Photo: A man counts Indian currency notes at a shop in the old quarters of Delhi, India, August 27, 2025. REUTERS/Anushree Fadnavis)
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  • Hello and welcome to NewsHour from the BBC World Service.

  • We're coming to you live from London.

  • I'm James Menendez.

  • In a moment, we will be heading to India as US tariffs of 50% on Indian goods come into force.

  • Also today,

  • the Danish government has summoned a senior US diplomat in Copenhagen because of what it calls an influence campaign that America's been waging in Greenland,

  • apparently to persuade people there that they'd be better off with the US.

  • And a Korean-inspired animation becomes Netflix's most watched film ever.

  • We'll hear how K-pop continues to grab imaginations all around the world.

  • That's coming up in the second half of the programme.

  • But we are going to start in India,

  • which today finds itself in the unenviable position of having to deal with some of the highest U.S. trade tariffs in the world.

  • That's

  • because President Trump's 25% levy imposed because of India's purchases of discounted Russian oil came into effect at midnight Washington time.

  • And they come on top of a separate reciprocal tariff,

  • bringing the total amount that U.S. firms must pay to bring in goods from India to 50%.

  • And that is bad news for the world's fastest-growing large economy.

  • The US is India's biggest export market,

  • and it raises a huge question mark over relations between Washington and Delhi,

  • which, once warm, have now taken a nosedive.