US President Donald Trump has said that India has offered to drop all tariffs on goods imported from his country.
The Indian government has “offered us a deal where basically they are willing to literally charge us no tariff,” Trump said at an event in Doha.
India and the US are currently in talks to negotiate a trade agreement.
Delhi has not commented yet on the remarks. The BBC has reached out to India’s commerce ministry for comment.
No further details regarding the purported deal with India have been made public yet.
Trump was speaking at an event with business leaders in Doha where he announced a series of deals between the US and Qatar including for Boeing jets.
According to Bloomberg, the US president also said he had told Apple CEO Tim Cook not to expand production in India.
“I said I don’t want you building in India,” Bloomberg quoted Trump as saying, about a conversation he said he had with Cook. He added that Apple will be “upping their production in the United States”.
This is a developing story.
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