If Trump Offered Zero Tariffs on Indian Products, Would India Buy Russian Oil?
1 rohan_shah 1 9/3/2025, 8:55:20 PM
I don't think India will have any incentive to buy Russian oil if Trump makes favourable trade deals with India, it is known that USA can't manufacture a lot many goods because of lack of cheap labour which India has in abundance along with democracy and a rule of law.
Why is USA being so hostile to India, I simply don't understand!
Put simply, Modi bet on the wrong man: “During a phone call on June 17, Mr. Trump…mentioned that Pakistan was going to nominate him for the Nobel Peace Prize, an honor for which he had been openly campaigning. The not-so-subtle implication, according to people familiar with the call, was that Mr. Modi should do the same.
The Indian leader bristled. He told Mr. Trump that U.S. involvement had nothing to do with the recent cease-fire. It had been settled directly between India and Pakistan.
Mr. Trump largely brushed off Mr. Modi’s comments, but the disagreement — and Mr. Modi’s refusal to engage on the Nobel — has played an outsize role in the souring relationship between the two leaders, whose once-close ties go back to Mr. Trump’s first term” [1].
> USA can't manufacture a lot many goods because of lack of cheap labour
California’s manufacturing sector is 80% the size of India’s [2][3].
America needs manufacturing partners. Its manufacturing employment has steadily gone down over decades. And China is whooping its ass. But India is not—currently—a manufacturing hub.
[1] https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/30/us/politics/trump-modi-in...
[2] https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/CAMANNQGSP $400bn, Q1 ‘25 annualised
[3] https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/NV.IND.MANF.CD?location... $494bn in ‘24