Prime Minister Narendra Modi is on a visit to France, from here he will also visit America for two days. He is scheduled to meet US President Donald Trump on 13 February. Now to say, the meeting is of the heads of two countries, but more than this, this meeting is of two old friends. Prime Minister Modi has also done this, but whether Prime Minister Modi considers Trump as his good friend, Trump also considers PM Modi as a good friend or is this friendship just a friendship and Trump for American interests Are willing to sacrifice After all, why are questions on Trump’s intention before Prime Minister Modi’s visit to America, will talk in detail today.
On 20 January, with taking over the chair, Trump has taken some such decisions, which raises serious questions on his friend’s intention. Even if 104 Indians sent back by putting handcuffs in their hands and fetters in their feet are left, it should be considered as a policy of America, as is done by the Foreign Minister of India, Dr. S. Jaishankar and in Parliament Is also told.
There are some decisions of Donald Trump, due to which the major loss of India is fixed. The biggest decision among them, Trump has made a few hours before Prime Minister Modi’s visit to American. This decision is the decision to impose 25 percent tariff on steel and aluminum, which is sure to have a direct impact on India. Actually India sells steel and aluminum to America. People of America also buy India’s steel-aluminum, but now due to Trump’s decision, steel and aluminum will become expensive in the US, which will reduce the demand and if the demand in America decreases then India will have to reduce its supply. . Due to this, India will lose billions of rupees.
A figure suggests that India had sold steel of Rs 34,984 crore to the US in 2023 and aluminum of Rs 9,620 crore. Then the President of America Joe Biden was Biden. In January 2024, under the leadership of Biden, the US agreed to buy 3.36 lakh tonnes of steel and aluminum from India without any tariff, but Trump put a 25 % tariff on it as soon as it arrived so that American people do not buy Indian steel and they in America Be forced to buy cheap steel being made.
This is not the first time Donald Trump has done so. Even in 2017, when Trump became President, he imposed a tax of 25 percent on steel and 10 percent on aluminum. When Biden removed him, he himself moved away from the chair. Now Trump has again implemented it. In such a situation, despite the big economic loss, India’s compulsion is America and America’s compulsion is India. India’s compulsion is because America is a country that buys more from India and sells India less.
For example, the data of the Office of the United States Trade Representative says that in the year 2022, the total business between India and the US was around $ 191.8 billion. In this, America’s export, that is, the goods that the US sold to India was priced at $ 73 billion, while the goods bought by the US from India were priced at $ 118.8 billion. Now America is such a big market for us, where India earns dollars by selling goods, then you cannot leave it like this. So America is our compulsion.
India’s compulsion is India because America needs control over China. America knows that without taking India, that China cannot achieve its domination in any country of Asia. The rest of India has just reduced import duty from 13 percent to 11 percent in this budget. There has also been a tax cut on high-end bikes and luxury cars, which America has mastered in making. In such a situation, Trump also needs a market, for which India is suitable. So the hope is that when PM Modi meets Trump, small issues will be solved and where some scope will be saved, he will be completed with the friendship of these two leaders.
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