Trump hits India with 50% tariffs
Global News Podcast
BBC
4.3 • 8.3K Ratings
🗓️ 27 August 2025
⏱️ 31 minutes
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Summary
Steep tariffs have been imposed on India by the US, doubling an existing duty, as President Donald Trump seeks to punish India for buying Russian oil and weapons. The Indian Prime Minister, Narendra Modi, has called it economic coercion and is urging Indians to buy more locally produced goods. Also: there's a growing diplomatic row between Denmark and the US over reports of covert influence operations in Greenland; we have a report on how some people are exploiting emotions surrounding the Holocaust by creating fake images produced by AI to earn money; the role of peat in boosting a country's natural defences; and the successful launch of SpaceX's tenth test- we get a former NASA employee's view on Elon Musk's efforts to go to the Moon and ultimately Mars.
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| 0:00.0 | This is the Global News podcast from the BBC World Service. |
| 0:05.7 | I'm on Criticayan at 13 hours GMT on Wednesday, the 27th of August. These are our main stories. |
| 0:13.2 | Donald Trump hits India with 50% tariffs for buying Russian oil. There's a growing diplomatic |
| 0:18.5 | row between Denmark and the US over reports of a covert |
| 0:21.6 | operation in Greenland, and Germany's cabinet puts forward plans for voluntary military service, |
| 0:27.8 | which could eventually pave the way for conscription. Also in this podcast, we have a report |
| 0:34.4 | on how some people are exploiting emotions surrounding the Holocaust |
| 0:37.7 | by creating fake images to earn money. And... |
| 0:41.3 | SpaceX completes a successful test flight of the world's most powerful rocket, |
| 0:53.9 | which NASA hopes will return astronauts to the moon. |
| 0:59.9 | We start in South Asia, where US tariffs of 50% on goods from India have come into effect as Donald Trump punishes the country for continuing to buy Russian oil and weapons. |
| 1:12.5 | India, one of the US's strongest partners in the Indo-Pacific is amongst the countries being hit with the highest tariffs in the world. |
| 1:18.7 | The Indian Prime Minister Narendra Mordi has called it economic coercion and is urging Indians to buy |
| 1:24.3 | more locally produced goods. Vichwanshu Agarwal is the director of a textile manufacturer in Mumbai. |
| 1:30.4 | He said his company would be forced to look at new markets, but the higher levy was already |
| 1:35.0 | making things tough. |
| 1:36.5 | You know, with this 50% tariffs, especially US customers, they can't absorb these kind |
| 1:40.4 | of margins in our industry. |
| 1:42.1 | And they are definitely looking for alternatives. |
| 1:44.1 | So, you know, orders haven't been coming in lately. And. these kind of margins in our industry and they are definitely looking for alternatives so you |
| 1:45.0 | know orders haven't been coming in lately and things are not good orders are drying up and things |
| 1:51.5 | are not very good at the moment we are doing currently being slightly larger and more this is |
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