{"id":125299,"date":"2025-08-07T03:32:11","date_gmt":"2025-08-07T03:32:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/125299\/"},"modified":"2025-08-07T03:32:11","modified_gmt":"2025-08-07T03:32:11","slug":"whats-a-secondary-tariff-like-the-one-trump-imposed-on-india","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/125299\/","title":{"rendered":"What\u2019s a \u2018Secondary Tariff\u2019 Like the One Trump Imposed on India?"},"content":{"rendered":"

In his second term as US president, Donald Trump has used tariffs as a blanket solution to pursue a wide range of goals<\/a>: increasing domestic manufacturing and foreign market access, boosting federal revenue, and even punishing<\/a> the government of Brazil for prosecuting his political ally, former President Jair Bolsonaro. Now he\u2019s deployed a tool he calls a \u201csecondary tariff\u201d in an effort to get countries to distance themselves from US adversaries.<\/p>\n

On Aug. 6, Trump announced that such a tariff<\/a> on imports from India would take effect in 21 days. On top of an existing 25% levy on goods from India, he added an additional 25% tariff to penalize India for buying oil from Russia. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In his second term as US president, Donald Trump has used tariffs as a blanket solution to pursue…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":125300,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[4214,64,77062,61449,77059,453,79,337,77060,454,20154,1567,77061,257,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-125299","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-economy","8":"tag-brazil","9":"tag-business","10":"tag-dhiraj-singh","11":"tag-donald-john-trump","12":"tag-economic-sanctions","13":"tag-economics","14":"tag-economy","15":"tag-explainer","16":"tag-generic-1st-cl-future","17":"tag-government","18":"tag-imports","19":"tag-india","20":"tag-mumbai","21":"tag-russia","22":"tag-united-states","23":"tag-unitedstates","24":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/114985379030860169","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125299","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=125299"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125299\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/125300"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=125299"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=125299"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=125299"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}